Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Can Medications Make It *Too* Easy to Recover?

Drug-based treatments dominate opiate addiction treatment but are far from universally accepted. Referring to chemical ‘solutions’ to addiction, the ‘bite’ commentary on this cell ends with the “curious possibility that precisely because a technology is (relatively) effortlessly effective, it is to that degree under suspicion”. As some patients thought likely, does recovery have to “hurt and cause pain”?