Docs advocate fighting opioids with opioids

Medication-assisted treatment doctor advocates visited Havre Monday to put on multiple presentations praising the benefits of opioid antagonists to treat people with opioid addiction.

Twenty medical professionals in all of Montana are legally allowed to use opiates like Methadone, Naltrexone or Buprenorphine to treat people with opioid addiction, said Dr. Bruce G. Trigg.

Bullhook Community Health Center, said a clinic representative, has two employees wavered to administer opioids.

Trigg, a native of New York, began the presentation describing how the opioid epidemic began and how large...