Opioid Rehabilitation: When Pain Relief Becomes Dependence 99218

The first best alcohol rehab time I sat with a patient who had slid from medication-assisted drug addiction treatment prescribed pain relief into dependence, he brought a shoebox of pill bottles to his intake medication-assisted addiction treatment appointment. The labels told the story in neat pharmacy fonts: post-surgery oxycodone, then hydrocodone as a “step down,” then refills after a second injury, then a jump to fentanyl patches when his tolerance cre