Opioid Use Disorder
Articles in this topic explain how Opioid Use Disorder can affect mood, focus, sleep, relationships, medication decisions, and day-to-day care conversations.
MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment)
If you have opioid use disorder, medication is the actual treatment.
Jun 2, 2026
Buprenorphine for depression and chronic pain
Buprenorphine is best known as an addiction medication, particularly for opioid use disorder, but a growing body of research and a quieter clinical…
Apr 14, 2026
Vivitrol (extended-release naltrexone)
Vivitrol is naltrexone in a syringe, given once a month in your butt. That's the whole pitch.
Mar 28, 2026
Ibogaine: Real Promise, Real Risk
Ibogaine might be the strangest substance in the whole psychedelic treatment conversation, because the promise is real and the risk is real and they sit…
Mar 21, 2026
Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone)
Suboxone is the closest thing we have to a miracle drug in psychiatry, and most of the people who need it spent years being talked out of taking it by…
Mar 12, 2026
Addiction, Explained
Addiction is what happens when the brain's reward wiring gets dragged hard in one direction.
May 31, 2025