methadone

SAMHSA’s Guide for MOUD in State Prisons Kinda Forgot About Something

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released new guidance for making medications for opioid use disorder…

June 16, 2025

Safe Supply Mirrors Methadone Outcomes, With Better Retention

Safe supply improved most health outcomes for people who use opioids as effectively as methadone, found a new study out…

May 28, 2025

A Methadone Pioneer Who Freed People From the Cruel Clinic System

Dr. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of New York City doctors who pioneered…

April 23, 2025

People Who Use Drugs Among Victims of Trump’s Assault on USAID

On January 30, employees at TB HIV Care received a letter informing them that they’d soon get their last paychecks.…

February 7, 2025

Tapering Off Methadone Without a Clinic, in Just Two Years and 13 Rehabs

Since early 2023, I’ve been surfing my way across what feels like every New Jersey substance use disorder treatment facility…

October 15, 2024

To Get Methadone in Jail, I Had to Hide It in My Prosthetic Leg

The first time I went to jail, I was using heroin as well as methadone. I had a doctor who…

October 3, 2024

My Old Doctor Gave Me Methadone. Being Forced Into a Clinic Ruined It.

I lost my leg in a car accident when I was 15. A little while after, I started having pain…

July 9, 2024

“Horrible”—Harm Reduction Legend Discusses the Methadone System

I first heard Edith Springer speak at the 2004 Harm Reduction Coalition conference in New Orleans. She was explaining how…

June 4, 2024

Arrests at North Carolina Methadone Clinic Raise Ethical, Legal Alarms

On a pleasant summer’s morning in North Carolina, a law enforcement officer was searching for a woman who had missed…

May 21, 2024

NY County Sued for Illegally Denying Person OUD Meds in Jail

A lawsuit accuses a New York county jail of repeatedly denying a man held there his medication for opioid use…

April 12, 2024