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Addiction, Inc : Medication-Assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dufton, Emily.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dole, Vincent, 1913-2006.
- Opioid abuse.
- Federal aid to drug abuse treatment programs.
- Local Subjects:
- Dole, Vincent, 1913-2006.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Addiction, Inc
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- How the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction--until America's opioid crisis got privatized for profit, to the detriment of patients. Despite epidemic levels of overdoses in the United States, by 2020, only twenty percent of Americans suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) received medication-assisted treatment (MAT).
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84812-4
- OCLC:
- 1581931473
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