The Unique Nature of Opioid Use Disorders: Neuroscience, Co-Occurring Disorders, and Treatment Approaches – Charles Atkins

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Summary

• Strategies from CBT, DBT and other evidence-based psychotherapies Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT): Effectively combine medication with therapeutic interventions Formulate treatment plans for opioid use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders with an integrated whole-person approach Painkillers can kill more than just pain.

• Death from opioid overdoses have bypassed those from motor vehicle accidents.

• Dangerous synthetic drugs have flooded the streets — someone’s first use may be their last.

• Ruined lives, broken families, incarceration, and premature death.

• These are the extreme, life destroying consequences of opioid addiction.