Columnist Teri Sforza writes it’s beyond time to listen to a pioneer in using medication to help people conquer this demon.
a neuropsychiatrist who’s worked in addiction medicine for nearly as long as you’ve been alive.Ling has the remarkable gift of clarity, frequently quotes his mother’s wisdom, has an infectious optimism — and will be the first to tell you that. The plan was simply to finish neurology and psychiatry training at Washington University in St.
• You can’t get a life if you can’t stay off drugs. And you can’t stay off drugs for long if you can’t get a life. Taking medication is the best guarantee that you don’t die from an overdose and actually stay off drugs.isShortly after the young Ling family arrived in California, the good doctor was helping out on the general psychiatric ward at the Veteran’s Administration hospital. Nixon was president. Veterans were returning home from Vietnam with troubling heroin addictions.
In 2023 — after decades of research showing that medication is the gold standard for getting a life — much of California’s treatment system continues to shun it. “Even when we reluctantly tolerate the use of medications, we want patients to get off them as soon as possible. Nationwide, detoxification is still the most common, most profitable and least effective treatment offered; it has an over 90% relapse rate. We expect detoxifications to return patients to their old non-addict self, ignoring the fact that once addicted, they can’t turn back the clock of their body and brain to before addiction.
We don’t want to go against the abstinence treatment industry, and we let the regulatory agencies become symbiotic with the system they regulate.“We don’t need more treatment that is not treatment,” Ling has told us. “If we want to find sensible solutions, we should stop doing things that don’t work.”
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