The federal government is unveiling new regulations meant to modernize methadone treatment, the first major update to patient care standards at methadone clinics in more than 20 years. The new rules ...
As the opioid addiction crisis continues in America, there are both new and old medications available to treat it. One of the oldest is methadone. It is also the most stigmatized — and the most ...
Methadone is a vital medication for opioid use disorder, yet it remains underused because of restrictive federal and state regulations. Before 2018, not all state Medicaid programs covered methadone ...
While the numbers are finally starting to decline, more than 74,000 Americans are still dying every year from opioid overdoses. Despite that, very few people who are struggling with addiction get ...
The five Massachusetts opioid treatment clinics where Ruth Potee works bend over backward to make methadone treatment easy and accessible for the people they serve. But Potee worries it isn’t enough.
Just after Christmas in 2016, 23-year-old Maxwell Baker lost his battle with a heroin addiction, dying of an overdose during a tragic relapse. At the time, methadone treatments were agonizingly out of ...
Opioid use disorder, also known as opioid dependence, is a complex condition that can be challenging to treat, but recovery ...
Imagine you need a daily dose of medicine to control a life-threatening condition. Now imagine that to get that dose — on weekdays, weekends, Thanksgiving, Christmas — you must travel an hour each way ...
While the numbers are finally starting to decline, more than 74,000 Americans are still dying every year from opioid overdoses. Despite that, very few people who are struggling with addiction get ...