You are correct. All prescribing that we do in addiction is about stabilization of that individual so we can move forward with treatment.
As physicians, we also make sure there are no harms to the community or others when we prescribe. For instance, when we do a urine test with respect to methadone treatment, this is something we do all the time, but we don't check for methadone. We check to see if they're using illicit substances. If they're not, then they get to start taking methadone home and not just picking it up at the pharmacy—not the opposite way of trusting that everybody is perfect.