Start with the premise that opiate addicts don't get well. (Unless they're doctors.)
Perform a study offering only two variations of your preferred treatment. (Cheap and crime reducing.) One is high dose or long duration and the other low dose or short duration. Do not offer a recovery oriented option at all, or offer a recovery oriented option of inadequate duration and intensity.
Find that, when offering 2 lousy options, the lousy option with the longer duration or higher intensity reduces symptoms better at follow-up.
Run a headline of, "Methadone Detoxification Remains No Match for Methadone Maintenance, Even with Minimal Counseling." In the comments, declare, "Methadone maintenance is the preferred treatment approach for heroin dependence."
Bonus:"No difference between groups was found for cocaine use or depressive symptoms."
Bonus bonus:"Results for MM with standard counseling (2 hours a month) did not differ from those for MM with minimal counseling (15 minutes a month)."
Question: Do you think this will be used to justify offering even less counseling to methadone recipients?
Perform a study offering only two variations of your preferred treatment. (Cheap and crime reducing.) One is high dose or long duration and the other low dose or short duration. Do not offer a recovery oriented option at all, or offer a recovery oriented option of inadequate duration and intensity.
Find that, when offering 2 lousy options, the lousy option with the longer duration or higher intensity reduces symptoms better at follow-up.
Run a headline of, "Methadone Detoxification Remains No Match for Methadone Maintenance, Even with Minimal Counseling." In the comments, declare, "Methadone maintenance is the preferred treatment approach for heroin dependence."
Bonus:"No difference between groups was found for cocaine use or depressive symptoms."
Bonus bonus:"Results for MM with standard counseling (2 hours a month) did not differ from those for MM with minimal counseling (15 minutes a month)."
Question: Do you think this will be used to justify offering even less counseling to methadone recipients?