The EEOC has filed a lawsuit against a company for refusing to hire a methadone user relying on it as a treatment for opioid ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday will debate an addiction medicine proposal that would have been considered unthinkable just years ago: giving a select group of doctors the power to prescribe methadone directly ...

Altice noted that participants receiving methadone in primary care settings lost nothing as far as treatment quality or retention, and instead gained one to two guideline-recommended health services, ...

Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) had a lower risk of discontinuing methadone compared with buprenorphine/naloxone, and with a similar mortality risk, according to a population-based cohort ...

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Methadone has been known to be an effective treatment for opioid addiction and dependency since the 1960s. Unfortunately, in this country, since 1972, the federal government segregates people with ...

Jen Jeffries was arrested on drug charges back in 2007. She was 21 years old, living on the streets in San Francisco at that time, and injecting heroin several times a day. She no longer wanted to get ...

Editor’s note: The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Daily Herald. Many incarcerated Utahns still have a hard time getting their hands ...

Belmarie Lugo stores her methadone vials in a lockbox. Methadone theft can be a concern for patients who take home large quantities. SHAHRZAD RASEKH / CT MIRROR By the time Belmarie Lugo stepped into ...

By the time Belmarie Lugo stepped into the treatment clinic in January 2022, her body was malnourished. Her connections to her family had fractured, and she estimates she had overdosed on heroin and ...