McLean Fights Opiates with Drugs

As the battle against narcotics continues, one way for opiate addicts to fight their addiction might be opiates themselves.

A study on prescription opioid dependence led by Dr. Roger D. Weiss, chief of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at McLean Hospital in Belmont, shows “Prescription opioid–dependent patients are most likely to reduce opioid use during buprenorphine-naloxone treatment.”