Can you imagine that since the 1970s, the two federal agencies that control the methadone clinic system—the Drug Enforcement Administration…
I was going to the methadone clinic weekly when the pandemic began. That was the maximum at the place I…
The members of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) are outraged. This national organization represents the…
Momentum is building for legislation to broaden access to buprenorphine and methadone, the lifesaving medications for opioid use disorder. Its…
I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local mutual aid network in Michigan. I’ll…
Peter Vanderkloot’s groundbreaking article—Methadone: Medicine, Harm Reduction or Social Control—hit me hard. As a social worker, I helped people who…
Danielle Russell is a third-year PhD student at Arizona State University, and a co-investigator on a current study examining access…
COVID-19 made us rethink how and why we were doing all kinds of things simply out of routine. Why do…
I had a gut feeling there would be gaslighting, but I didn’t think it would start the minute Dr. Alan…
In March 2020, to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections among patients and staff, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health…