Perspective of a former patient on MAT and rehab.

The article presents a personal narrative of Zachary Siegel, journalist with an opioid addiction history along with his experience on rehab and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) worlds. Topics discussed include painkiller addiction prescribed to him turned into a heroin addiction and him being treated with buprenorphine; methadone treatment in an opioid treatment program; and number of relapses and overdoses in patients treated in abstinence-based programs for opioid use disorders.