Getting Started With Medication-Assisted Treatment: With Lessons From Advancing Recovery

This guide is from from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care, a national initiative to improve the quality of alcohol and drug addiction treatment by promoting the use of evidence-based practices. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the use of medications, combined with counseling, to treat substance use disorders. This toolkit shares lessons that emerged from the efforts of several of the grantees to establish MAT programs in their organizations . . .