What’s the Most Effective Treatment for Methamphetamine Use Disorder?
In January 2021, behavioral scientists from the United States National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) published their findings from a clinical research study involving 403 patients trying to recover from severe methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). The study unfolded over two years, and it featured two prescription medications: bupropion in oral form and injectable naltrexone. All patients received contingency management and cognitive behavioral therapy, the two
When Is Relapse Most Likely during Addiction Recovery?
One of the most compelling addiction memoirs published in recent times is Quitter, by Erica C. Barnett, a Seattle-based journalist whose recovery from severe alcoholism caused her to relapse many times over seven years. The book is filled with long and painful passages about Barnett’s struggle to stop drinking after more than two decades. Nonetheless, her frank self-assessment of “hitting rock bottom” too late in
