The addiction epidemic was already a massive problem throughout the United States.  Unfortunately, 2020 has only made the problem worse. COVID-19 swept across the globe sending people into a panic and forcing them into their homes. The effects of the coronavirus were far more than physical, though. High levels of stress often lead people to seek relief through alcohol and substance use. Battling against the widespread addiction epidemic on its own is difficult enough. It’s only gotten worse with the

So today we’re going to have a cool one, I think. I love it. And we’ve all just been having a very brief chat because we didn’t want to get too much into it before we started, but we are going to be talking about what it is to live a life of recovery, get into a life of recovery and then to go into the treatment industry to work in this field, which is for some people, and I think we would all agree that it’s a blessing beyond blessings to be able to do something we have a normal passion for, to earn a living doing something you’re passionate about it, I think is rare in this world.

One new aspect of addiction treatment that has become popular in recent years is the use of medically assisted treatment (also known as MAT). It is used to treat many substance use disorders as well as to prevent overdose. Due to the recent opioid epidemic, MAT is being used as an alternative to abstinence based recovery. MAT is primarily used for the treatment of addiction to opioids such as heroin and prescription pain relievers that contain opiates. In this episode BlueCrest CEO Rich Hession, Mark Bonnani, Dr. Nicholas Coangelo and Dr. Muhammad Farhan Ijaz discuss this polarizing topic. Is medically assisted treatment effective when treating substance use disorder?