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medication assisted treatment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.80 in modern English

Syllables
med-i-ca-tion as-sist-ed treat-ment
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A drug addiction treatment method which uses medication to replace the drug that one is physically addicted to.

Etymology

From medication + assistance + treatment. The official governmental U.S. English form does not use a hyphen.

Inflected Forms

medication assisted treatments (plural) medication-assisted treatment (alternative)

Derived Forms

MAT

Synonyms

MAT

Questions

What does medication assisted treatment mean?
A drug addiction treatment method which uses medication to replace the drug that one is physically addicted to.
Where does medication assisted treatment come from?
From medication + assistance + treatment. The official governmental U.S. English form does not use a hyphen.

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