Tag: MAT
NYC Jail Deprived Trans Women of MAT for Years
Between 2015 and 2018, transgender women incarcerated in New York City’s first-of-its-kind Transgender Housing ...
Probation Officers Should Never Direct Medical Care for People With OUD
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment ...
Denial of Methadone Devastates Incarcerated People: What Hope?
When people who are dependent on opioids are incarcerated and denied access, they go ...
Coercion Into Addiction Treatment Is Ubiquitous: Five Ways It Happens
The range and intensity of coercion in addiction treatment isn’t well recognized. Yet coercion ...
Drug Czar, Congressmembers Move to Make Buprenorphine Prescribing Easier—But Will They Do Enough?
The United States “drug czar” James Carrol released a report on May 3 announcing ...
Why We Fail to Maximize the Benefits of Methadone and Buprenorphine
Medication for anything only works if the patient takes enough. This is emphatically true ...
“Liquid Handcuffs”—A Documentary to Free Methadone
There’s nothing greater than living,” says Ellis (above), who takes methadone. “We all want ...
Huge Harm Reduction Gathering Allows Portugal to Teach the World
To walk down the hill to the Douro River in Porto on a sunny ...
Indivior Case: Don’t Throw Out the Buprenorphine With the Bathwater
In the lucrative but hit-and-miss opioid use disorder treatment field, buprenorphine is one medication ...
US Buprenorphine Prices: A Complete List
To accompany Alison Knopf’s April 16 article about buprenorphine in light of federal charges ...
