Facing the Fear of the Unknown: A Clinician’s Guide to Starting Medication-Assisted Treatment
You might be reading this with your heart in your throat. Maybe someone just said the word “addiction” out loud for the first time—maybe it was you. Maybe you sat across from a doctor who gently introduced the idea of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), and now you’re home, scrolling, unsure what to feel. Let me start […]
The Balance Between Recovery and Real Life: How Medication-Assisted Treatment Helped Me Manage Both
Some people picture addiction as chaos. Mine didn’t look like that. It looked like keeping every work deadline, making every school pickup, and quietly falling apart after dinner. I wasn’t falling down drunk. I was just disappearing—slowly, invisibly. Every night I’d say, “Just one glass.” Then I’d top it off, or pour another while cleaning […]
What Made Medication‑Assisted Treatment Become the Missing Piece
I get it. You’ve walked into treatment before—or tried to. You’ve invested time, money, willpower. And when the relief was temporary, or the cravings returned, you were left wondering if you were the problem, or if treatment is just a smoke-and-mirror promise. As a clinician, I’ve seen people like you. The ones who think “it […]
