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Meet the medication that treats opioid use disorder

Opioid addiction—and the stigma surrounding it—can be combated with medically-assisted...

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How medically-assisted treatment can reduce the stigma of opioid use

Only about 10% of the 16 million people affected by opioid receive medically-assisted...

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