In the wake of an ongoing U.S. maternal mortality crisis, encouraging pregnant people with substance use disorders to get treatment is crucial. Nationally, drug overdoses are a top cause of ...

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 ...

“It’s been too long.” “You’re just substituting one drug for another.” These are the things I hear regularly at Samaritan Daytop Village’s Staten Island Outpatient Treatment Program I oversee on ...

Claire White, 32, was staying with her long-term partner Mark Martin Sinton, 42, at his address in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on February 21, when their bodies were found ...

Permanent regulatory improvements to the methadone treatment system have begun, and more are urgently needed. Overdose rates are higher than ever before due to fentanyl; and opioid use disorder (OUD) ...

The first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the life-saving drug starting next month, but experts say the addiction treatment changes could fall flat ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Every morning, Nick Voyles jumps in his car and hustles to a methadone clinic in a ...

Suen is a primary care and addiction medicine doctor, and an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Roberts is a deputy director of behavioral health policy and substance ...

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