{"id":6558,"date":"2025-02-16T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/an-effective-treatment-for-opioid-addiction-exists-why-isnt-it-used-more\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:37:23","slug":"an-effective-treatment-for-opioid-addiction-exists-why-isnt-it-used-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/an-effective-treatment-for-opioid-addiction-exists-why-isnt-it-used-more\/","title":{"rendered":"An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn\u2019t It Used More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then, in November, with the election of Donald Trump and the Republicans\u2019 return to power in Congress, the question of how best to respond to opioid-use disorder was confronted with new uncertainty. For the past decade, the push to expand access to treatment for opioid addiction has enjoyed bipartisan support. But during his campaign, Trump outlined a draconian vision to address the opioid problem, threatening drug dealers and smugglers with the death penalty and promising to \u201cseal\u201d the border. On Feb. 1, he signed an executive order to levy tariffs against China, Mexico and Canada, in part to pressure these countries to halt the flow of fentanyl into the United States. (Soon after, he gave 30-day reprieves to Canada and Mexico.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford who studies the opioid crisis, says the idea that beefed-up border control could halt or greatly curtail the flow of fentanyl into the country is simply misguided. Fentanyl is so concentrated that the amount needed to supply the entire country\u2019s demand for a year is at most 10 metric tons, he estimates. Law enforcement has to find those 10 tons \u2014 the weight of few cars \u2014 among the more than <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bts.gov\/content\/us-mexican-border-land-freight-gateways-number-incoming-truck-or-rail-container-crossings\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">seven million trucks<\/a> carrying goods that cross the border annually. To meaningfully impede the flow of fentanyl, he thinks, you would have to completely close the border, at which point the country would inflict massive economic harm on itself. And even with the border shut, drones, planes and tunnels can easily continue supplying the market. A birthday-card-size letter mailed from abroad could carry a week\u2019s supply of the opioid for someone. \u201cYou can\u2019t really keep fentanyl out of such a big country,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trump\u2019s expressed desire to slash government spending also worries proponents of medication-for-addiction treatment. Some Republicans are actively seeking ways to cut Medicaid, along with other federal programs. Trump may also try to undo or simply undermine the Affordable Care Act, a favorite target. Either development could be disastrous for the distribution of medication to treat opioid addiction, reversing the gains, however tenuous, made under the Biden administration. Medicaid covers an estimated 40 percent of non-elderly adults with opioid-use disorder in the United States, some two-thirds of whom receive treatment for their addiction through the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s also possible, however, that Trump will expand the public-health approach he embraced during his first term, which was furthered by the Biden administration, and continue to encourage efforts to roll out M.A.T. Trump signed a law during his first term that removed some requirements for doctors who wanted to prescribe buprenorphine, notes Kassandra Frederique, the executive director of Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates for less-punitive drug policy. And uniquely among Republican presidents, Trump supported the use of some harm-reduction practices like making clean syringes available, according to his first-term surgeon general. Frederique told me she hopes that the current administration will continue to build on the work Trump and others have done to expand access to treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What\u2019s important to remember is just how much evidence exists indicating that buprenorphine can help people with opioid addiction. Sarah Wakeman often points this out as she pushes back against what she sees as a pervasive sense of pessimism around the opioid crisis. The problem is that this medicine isn\u2019t getting to the people who need it quickly enough. \u201cMost people think this is a terribly recalcitrant, untreatable, insurmountable problem,\u201d she says. \u201cThat couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-zera2v\">\n<div class=\"css-p6m5rf\">\n<div class=\"byline-container css-1e2jphy epjyd6m2\">\n<div class=\"css-233int epjyd6m1\">\n<p class=\"css-1juylvt e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">Read by <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\" itemprop=\"name\">Robert Petkoff<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1juylvt e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">Narration produced by <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\" itemprop=\"name\">Emma Kehlbeck<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1juylvt e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">Engineered by <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\" itemprop=\"name\">Zak Mouton<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/16\/magazine\/buprenorphine-opioid-addiction-treatment.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then, in November, with the election of Donald Trump and the Republicans\u2019 return to power in Congress, the question of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2561,139],"class_list":["post-6558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-2","tag-buprenorphine-drug","tag-drugs-pharmaceuticals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. 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