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Heroin addict went through the following treatment to stop his drug abuse: a doctor gradually replaced his daily heroin dosage with the legal drug methadone. What kind of treatment is this? Select one of the options below as your answer:

a. detoxification
b. supervised medication
c. therapeutic community

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B) Supervised medication.

This is because the doctor has replaced the drug with another drug that is being controlled. In other words, it's supervised medication.

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supervised medication
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