William White wrote “From Bias to Balance: Further Reflections on Addiction Treatment Medications” in an attempt to open a dialogue between the polarized sides of using opioid medications like buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction. In Part one of this article I expressed my belief that the impasse between the two sides is largely for philosophical, […]
William White said he has for years tried to build bridges of communication across the polarized debates surrounding the use of medications in the treatment of addiction. He wrote “From Bias to Balance: Further Reflections on Addiction Treatment Medications” with a two-part goal in mind that I have borrowed and revised to frame my discussion […]
The interventions into overdose deaths need to see their prevention attempts with MAT through the lens of a drug-centered model of drug action.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) rose up from the fragments of an earlier fellowship of the same name that had stopped holding meetings in the fall of 1959. The earlier NA, organized in 1953, struggled and ultimately could not overcome issues stemming from internal dysfunction and personality conflicts. In “Narcotics Anonymous: Its History and Culture,” William White, […]