No, Portland, MAT Doesn’t ‘Replace One Addiction With Another’

Golden handcuffs is one of the most misleading names for MAT medications like methadone, Vivtrol and Suboxone we've heard in Portland.

  We hear it all the time from new patients, concerned families, and, yes, even the recovery community in Portland, Oregon all the time. You’ve probably heard it, in Portland, too. It goes something like this:  “Methadone? Suboxone? Vivitrol? Isn’t all of this just replacing one addiction with another?”  It makes sense why this is […]