Being on medication complicates sober housing, an alternative for young people after inpatient

When young people go to residential treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs), they are frequently recommended to live in some kind of sober housing setting afterward, rather than returning home to their old temptations. However, if these young people are on buprenorphine — which is, along with methadone and naltrexone, an approved medication for the treatment of opioid use disorders — they may not be welcome in sober homes.
Source: The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update - Category: Psychiatry Tags: In the News Source Type: research