Recovery: Obstacles & New Approaches

From the award-winning team of health reporters at Side Effects Public Media, this series addresses obstacles to addiction treatment and recovery as well as some promising new approaches to helping people manage their disease. The first piece is about how insurance rules make it hard to get on buprenorphine, a drug that’s been proven effective in helping people addicted to opioids. The second piece covers a new treatment that delivers long-term relief from the pangs of opioid withdrawal but is hard for doctors to manage. The third piece is about peer-to-peer counseling, a tool for recovery which is gaining respect but suffers from lack of funding for. And finally, we feature a story about a group of people in recovery who learned that acting in a play can help them manage their addiction.