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Vivitrol has been around for a couple of decades, but it’s not as widely known.

I think it’s a great tool for treating addiction.

It blocks the effects of an opiate, so you can’t get high.

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Medically treating addiction can also mean prescribing medications that deter a person from using.

A perfect example of this is Antabuse.

If you drink alcohol while taking it, you violently throw up.

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Medications for drug addiction can help with harm reduction.

A great example of this is methadone–a drug to treat opiate addiction.

Shooting heroin is incredibly dangerous and harmful for a lot of reasons.

Methadone is something like heroin, but it can be distributed legally to save lives and help people function better.

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Medical Approach to Addiction

One way to treat addiction that’s getting more sophisticated is the medical approach.

In other words, treating addiction as a medical condition.

And, of course, one of the primary tools to treat addiction is medications.

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