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Addiction Treatment Forum reports on substance use news of interest to opioid treatment programs and patients in medication-assisted treatment.

Books and Booklets of Interest

(Most books are available from www.amazon.com and other on-line booksellers.)

Medication-Assisted Treatment and Opioid Addiction)

  • Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Booklets for Patients, Families and Friends
    A series of three booklets produced in 2009 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)) are designed to provide basic information about MAT for opioid addiction including medication options for treatment – methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine. The booklets also explain how medication options fit into the overall recovery process.
    Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction – Facts for Families and Friends
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    The Facts About Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction
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    The Facts About Naltrexone for Treatment of Opioid Addiction
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  • Professional Perspectives on Addiction Medicine: Understanding Opioid Addiction and the Function of Methadone Treatment
    This 125-page book from Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System, San Jose, CA, covers all the basics for OTP staff, patients, community leaders, criminal justice system authorities, and interested others.
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Books on the History of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Drug Policy, Addiction and Recovery

  • Addiction Treatment – Science and Policy for the Twenty-first Century
    Edited by Jack E. Henningfield, Patricia B. Santora, and Warren K. Bickel, this book examines drug addiction treatment in the United States. It explores specific challenges (scientific, medical, social, and legal) to reaching the goal that treatment for drug addiction should be as accessible as treatments for diseases of the heart, liver, and lungs which often result from the use of addictive drugs. These essays, written by leaders in addiction science, medicine, and health policy, present diverse and often opposing points of view to foster thought and discussion. Addiction Treatment provides a solid foundation for understanding addiction as a treatable illness and for establishing a framework for effective treatment in the twenty-first century.
    The book can be ordered online at Amazon.com.
  • Discovering Addiction – The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (Hardcover)
    Authored by Nancy D. Campbell, Discovering Addiction (2007) brings the history of human and animal experimentation in addiction science into the present with a wealth of archival research and dozens of oral-history interviews with addiction researchers. Professor Campbell examines the birth of addiction science—the National Academy of Sciences’s project to find a pharmacological fix for narcotics addiction in the late 1930s—and then explores the human and primate experimentation involved in the succeeding studies of the “opium problem,” revealing how addiction science became “brain science” by the 1990s.
    The book can be ordered online at Amazon.com.
  • The Fix
    Published in 2000, The Fix authored by Michael Massing, makes a case for the return of the community-based drug treatment clinic model that was a cornerstone of U.S. drug policy under Richard Nixon. While Nixon’s personal distaste for illegal drugs may have been most evident in his decision to ignore evidence indicating that marijuana use did not lead irreparably to harder drugs, his pragmatism helped him recognize that the problem of narcotics was far more cost-effectively approached as a health issue rather than one strictly of law enforcement. In a narrative that alternates between descriptions of a drug-ridden neighborhood in Harlem and policy makers in the nation’s capital, Massing compellingly argues that the most effective battle against addiction is the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive national treatment system.
    The book can be ordered online at Amazon.com.
  • The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts
    Published in 2008 by authors Nancy D. Campbell, J.P. Olsen and Luke Walden, this book tells the story of the U.S. Narcotic Farm outside Lexington, Kentucky, in operation from 1935 to 1975. Originally designed to rehabilitate addicts and to find a cure for drug addiction, “Narco,” as the Farm was known locally, served as a federal prison as well. The Farm became a major center for research into drug addiction and its treatment. Scientists at the institution made important advances in using drugs that block the action of opiates and in using methadone to treat heroin withdrawal. (ISBN 0810972867 2008, hardcover, 208pp).
    The book can be ordered online at Amazon.com.

Clinical Books of Interest

All links accessed January 5, 2019.