Medication-Assisted Treatment: Overcoming Individual Resistance Among Members in Groups Whose Membership Consists of Both Users and Nonusers of MAT: A Clinical Review
Abstract:The last two decades have seen a variety of medication-assisted therapies (MATs) become available for the treatment of both opioid and alcohol dependency. The choice to accept or decline MAT is an individual patient choice tempered by a variety of variables. Nevertheless, group therapy has been the mainstay of treatment for the substance abuse population, and often when relapse occurs, clients are either reintroduced to MAT or offered MAT as an adjunct to the recovery process. In this setting, patients are sub… Show more
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