Dr. Stephen Klein

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RECOVERable: Mental Health and Addiction Experts Answer Your Questions · Naltrexone, Suboxone, Methadone: How Medications Treat Opioid Addiction · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

And then also just kind of the societal shift that we're talking about addiction more openly.

This isn't something to be ashamed of.

This is a medical condition, not some type of moral failing.

So I think those combine in a way to decrease the amount of patients who need these medications but don't get them.

And it's multifactorial and it's different for everybody.

We're talking about now these ideas of word of mouth and also kind of things that are pervasive in different types of recovery communities.

I wouldn't say it's as easy to say like being an addict is stigmatized more than being a person on Suboxone.

It's more how each of those shape an individual's journey.

So, for example, someone could be prescribed an opioid, realize that they're taking it not as prescribed and that they have a problem.

The first stigma that they face is, you know, really asking for help.

And I think that comes with a lot of courage.

I think most of my patients are incredibly courageous in that they're asking for help.

But that's a hard first hurdle.

So approaching your doctor, maybe even the doctor who prescribed you that opioid and saying, I'm not using this correctly or this is becoming a problem for me.

That's a type of openness that for many reasons patients may have trouble with with their doctors.

I think the next step is once patients hear the potential treatments for that, and I'm not saying that everyone who problematically takes prescription opioids the first time will be on Suboxone, but even the word Suboxone, the word methadone carry weight.

There's this idea behind them, people on Suboxone are X, people who take methadone are Y. And I think that comes to identity of patients not wanting to identify as addicts, just because I

inappropriately use opioids maybe I don't fully identify as having an opioid addiction yet.

So I think those are just a few examples of how different journeys can dictate more or less accessibility to these medications and willingness to take them, which in my experience have been additive.

So this is something that's really woven into the recovery and 12-step communities.

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