We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.

Medications work really well for opioid addiction. Most rehab facilities don’t use them.

Ian McLoone was at his son’s first birthday party in 2011 when his drug addiction rehab center called him at his Minneapolis home, telling him he needed to come back early.

We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused. Ackerman_IanMcLoone_008

We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused. Ackerman_IanMcLoone_008

McLoone quickly realized he was in trouble. The day before, he had missed curfew while chaperoning another client’s family visit for the inpatient facility. After the call, McLoone told his family that he had to go, and left, embarrassed. Over the next few days, he would be forced to “sit on the bench.”

“It was literally a bench out in the hallway,” McLoone told me. “You would sit there from after breakfast time until just before dinner time.”

While on the bench, McLoone, who was in treatment for opioid addiction at RS Eden, a treatment center in Minneapolis, couldn’t participate in most group sessions. He couldn’t attend lectures. He couldn’t talk to others in the program or eat with them. He couldn’t watch TV or use the phone. He just had to sit — in public, in silence. It was all part of RS Eden’s approach to treatment, as McLoone described it: “We’re going to break you down in order to build you up again.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/17/18292021/opioid-epidemic-methadone-buprenorphine-naltrexone-drug-rehab

We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.

We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.

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