The Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000)
It enables qualified physicians to prescribe and/or dispense narcotics for the purpose of treating opioid dependency. For the first time, physicians are able to treat this disease from their private offices or other clinical settings. Patients can now be treated in the privacy of their doctor’s office, as are other people being treated for any other type of medical condition. One medicine doctors may now prescribe is Buprenorphine. The major downfall of this Act is the limitation of 30/100/275 patients per physician. Read the entire act at: https://www.naabt.org/data2000.cfm
To suppress the debilitating symptoms of cravings and withdrawal, enabling the patient to engage in therapy, counseling and support, so they can implement positive long-term changes in their lives which develops into the new healthy patterns of behavior necessary to achieve sustained addiction remission. - explain -