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

At Karen Treatment Centers, those are things like meeting with a therapist, having really intensive group experiences.

The medication ends up being a smaller part of that.

I think the change to MOUD is to give it a little bit more specificity.

And that stands for medications for opioid use disorder.

So in the umbrella of MAT, MOUD is a subset.

There's also medications for alcohol use disorder and a few others.

I think it's to make it a little bit more specific.

clinical.

And I think the real battle cry with that is to de-stigmatize all these aspects of treatment.

We have really great medications that we're going to get into for opioid use disorder.

And I think those medications will maybe some people's only avenue to recovery or to treat their addiction.

So I think that moving away from MAT was a way to kind of make these medications stand on their own as medications for a medical illness.

So when we talk about the opioid epidemic, we are really talking about the widespread prescription of pain medications in the opioid class.

So things that patients have probably heard about and that listeners have heard about.

So oxycodone, hydromorphone, those were things that really got out and had a public impact because it really affected huge portions of the population.

Also within that class are some illicit drugs, so things like heroin, now largely fentanyl, and potentially most dangerous that we should mention in this class is something like kratom.

So kratom is actually something that's available in gas stations and smoke shops, but it's an opioid alkaloid, and it...

works pretty much the same way.

And those are now an emerging issue in many of the patients that I serve as they become addicted to those things, in addition to the ones I've mentioned.

And did you say they can be more dangerous?

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