What Is Medication-Assisted Treatment?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), medication-assisted treatment, otherwise known as MAT, uses medications, in “combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a ‘whole-patient’ approach to treating substance use disorders (SUDs),” particularly opioid and alcohol use disorders. Medications used in MAT are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), […]