Where does “medication-assisted treatment” come from?

medication-assisted treatment (English) comes from English medication, from Middle French médication, from Latin medicatio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis- — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.

medication-assisted treatment (English): Treatment of drug addiction by means of a replacement drug / medication

Definitions

  1. Treatment of drug addiction by means of a replacement drug / medication

Ancestry of “medication-assisted treatment”, step by step

medication-assisted treatment traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via English medication

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmedicationA medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken...
2Middle Frenchmédication
3Latinmedicatiohealing, cure, medication
4Latin-tiōtion, -ation, -ing
5Latindissertātiō(spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition
6Latindissertusarranged, disposed; explained
7Latindissereresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
8Latindis-asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;...
9Latincalceusshoe
10Latincalxlimestone; chalk; the finish line
11Ancient Greekχάλιξsmall stone, pebble; gravel, rubble

via English treatment

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtreatmentThe process or manner of treating someone or...
2EnglishtreatTo negotiate, discuss terms, bargain; To...
3Middle Englishtreten
4Old Frenchtretier
5Latintractāre
6Latintractōto tug, drag or haul
7Latin-tōForms here
8Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
9Proto-Italic-tus
10Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via English assisted

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishassistedsimple past tense and past participle of assist
Every word from Ancient Greek χάλιξ