
How Medication-Assisted Treatment Works
Our MAT track is normally 3 to 12 months in length and is managed as a long-term detox taper from opiates for patients who are unable to maintain their sobriety in abstinence-based programs.
The low but reasonable doses prescribed by our facility are consistent with its purpose of being a risk-reduction and craving-reducing component of the program, rather than it being an indefinite replacement for the substances previously being taken.
By the time a patient reaches the maximum program length of 12 months, medication has already stopped being prescribed and dosages throughout the months have been cut so low (even skipping certain days of the week by the end) that a total cutoff of the medication is commonly not bothersome at all, allowing patients to continue their journey to sobriety and move on to a substance-free lifestyle.