C. Scott McMillin | Recovery SI

In the News: Care about CARA

For most Americans, addiction remains a defect of character or self-discipline.

Thus someone who’s on maintenance but seeking one last ‘high’ often looks to fentanyl as a way around the medication. That’s risky in the extreme.

It becomes easier to dash off a prescription for Oxy than to argue with a determined patient.

Many physicians don’t want to offer opioid maintenance. They’re happy to refer out, to an addictionologist or psychiatrist with training.

Posted by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 28, 2016 | Public Policy | 0 |

The public needs to trust the people and institutions that provide the care they depend on when they (or someone they love) is sick.