Opinion: The overdose crisis demands wider access not just to Narcan, but also to methadone (via latimesopinion )
lacked a single clinic. Patients lucky enough to live near one are required, also by federal regulation, to show up typically six days a week to have staff hand them their daily methadone and watch them drink it.
Patients who miss a dose because of a snowstorm, last-minute job interview or family emergency have no other way to access methadone and are forced to struggle through painful withdrawal symptoms.. It was developed in the early 1970s by what is now the Drug Enforcement Administration, in the shadow of President Nixon’s war on drugs. Methadone can be dangerous if misused, and at the time it was novel to treat opioid addiction with an opioid medication.
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