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

We actually published a piece on this that was really talking about shattering the stigma.

So bringing the conversation around MOUD into this century in the 12-step communities.

And it's interesting because we have to remember that 12-step communities are incredibly tried and true ways of treating addiction.

And I say that in every sense of the word.

Treating addiction is really like getting to the core and facilitating recovery.

That being said, there's been somewhat of a tumultuous past with the relationship between 12-step recovery and the medical community, largely because in the beginning of, say, the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1930s, the medical view of people with severe alcoholism was you either had to be in a sanitarium or that you were destined to be in some type of institution for the rest of your life.

That was really what they had to offer.

It was, it was few and far interventions between.

Great.

So I think there was a strong and maybe warranted distrust of the medical community in the beginning.

That,

makes an interesting stage that some of the most influential voices like Dr. Silkworth and Alcoholics Anonymous were actually medical doctors that started to recognize that alcoholism and drug addiction is actually a medical disease.

The story with MOUD is also preceded by a story about other medications, such as medications for depression.

So in the beginning, when these medications were kind of in their first wave,

It was thought that maybe that these were shortcuts, that these were an easier, softer way.

Crutches.

Crutches, something that you were leaning on, something that, oh, you weren't ready for this part of your recovery and therefore you need to use this, which is somewhat paradoxical.

It was shown that Bill Wilson himself was on high doses of niacin in the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous for depression.

And furthermore, the big book even goes on to say that God gave us amazing doctors and medications and we should use them.

So that's the kind of historical background.

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