As the opioid crisis has taken off, some families have been convinced to spend tens of thousands of dollars on rehab backed by little scientific evidence. 'There really aren't that many regulations. ... Nobody's really been watching.' OnPointRadio
at the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.One family’s story of addiction treatment, and what it says about addiction treatment in the U.S.: “I talked to the family of Kimberly Blake. And she and her husband spent about $110,000 — or more — on addiction treatment. And their son still overdosed and died.
"And I've heard the story now, time and time again, as part of this reporting. Where if somebody goes to these facilities, they're really trying to get into recovery. And when they tell the person like, ‘Look, this approach just isn't working for me.’ The people will respond with like, ‘Wow, maybe you're just not ready for treatment.’ Or, even if they try to find something else, they just won't have the training, or expertise, to actually guide them.
"And that's really what the addiction treatment system has grown out of. And, as a result, what's actually happened is governments — whether state, federal or local — have really just been playing catch up. And, especially as we get into the opioid epidemic, they've been trying to regulate it more.
"The big thing here is there really aren't that many regulations, in some states. I mean, in some of these facilities, they don't have a single doctor, or nurse, on staff."“In an ideal situation, a person would be getting a combination of biological, psychological and social interventions. And, so, under the biological interventions would be medications such as buprenorphine, methadone or naltrexone.
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