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"Medicines to Keep Addiction Away"

  • The New York Times
  • New York, NY
  • (February 16, 2016)

Medicines greatly increase the chance of success and reduce the risk of death in ending opioid addiction. Richard Rosenthal, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine, said “There’s the opportunity for non-adherence—people forget, or don’t take their dose, which leaves them vulnerable again.” The other issue is that medicines have peaks and troughs. “People on various medications may have increased cravings during those troughs,” he said. Learn more.