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Drug Matrix Bite 11: Can medications make it too easy?
On medical treatments, this bite ends with the “curious possibility that precisely because a technology is (relatively) effortlessly effective, it is to that degree under suspicion.” The reference was to was to implants and injections which for up to several months block the effects of opiate-type drugs. But the opposite technology – prescribing opiate-type drugs themselves – has also been condemned as not requiring addicts to actively recover, depriving them even of the get-up-and-go previously needed to forage for illegal supplies. Does recovery have to be hard?
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