Tag: methadone
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 ...
Momentum Builds to Broaden Access to Methadone and Buprenorphine
Momentum is building for legislation to broaden access to buprenorphine and methadone, the lifesaving ...
“Administrative Detox” From Methadone Sums Up System’s Cruelty
I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local ...
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 ...
Vapes and Methadone: An All-Round Harm Reduction Story
Danielle Russell is a third-year PhD student at Arizona State University, and a co-investigator ...
As a Methadone Patient, I Demand No Return to the Pre-COVID Status Quo
COVID-19 made us rethink how and why we were doing all kinds of things ...
There Has to Be a Better Way to Free Methadone
I had a gut feeling there would be gaslighting, but I didn’t think it ...
SAMHSA Weighs Permanent Methadone Take-Homes, Decades Too Late
In March 2020, to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections among patients and staff, ...
Judge Rules in Favor of New York Prisoner Suing for Methadone Access
A District Court judge has issued a preliminary injunction to ensure that a 35-year-old ...
