Tag: MAT
The End of the X-Waiver Is a Chance to Advance Health Equity
On January 12, the federal government announced an important change to drug policy that ...
Methadone Clinics’ Conference Felt Like Being Behind Enemy Lines
Attending the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) conference, held in ...
A State-by-State Guide to the Cruelty of the Methadone Clinic System
A chart book of blue national maps newly compiled by Pew Charitable Trusts is ...
SAMHSA, the DEA Could Have Freed Methadone Any Time Since the 1970s
Can you imagine that since the 1970s, the two federal agencies that control the ...
Methadone, the Early Pandemic and the Terror of a Poppyseed Positive
I was going to the methadone clinic weekly when the pandemic began. That was ...
Methadone Clinics Step Up Their Backlash Against Reform
The members of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) are ...
“Administrative Detox” From Methadone Sums Up System’s Cruelty
I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local ...
Judge Orders County to Offer OUD Meds to All Jailed Patients, in US First
A New York district judge has ordered upstate Jefferson County to offer medication for ...
The Methadone Clinic System Needs Abolition, Not a Tepid Reform Bill
Peter Vanderkloot’s groundbreaking article—Methadone: Medicine, Harm Reduction or Social Control—hit me hard. As a ...
The Ways We “Monsterize” Drug Use, Pain and People
[This article is an adapted excerpt from On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters ...
