2. Methadone Patients Fare as Well as Other Patients in Therapeutic Community Treatment for Opioid Dependence Many therapeutic communities adhere to a drug-free philosophy and refuse to admit patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). Researchers compared outcomes in patients receiving MMT and patients not receiving MMT who participated in a 12-month treatment program for opioid dependence. 03/19/2009 (News)
4. Methadone Clinic Locator The Addiction Treatment Forum provides current news on methadone and other addiction treatments. Use this link to search by state and city to locate a methadone clinic.01/11/2006 (Resource)
5. Methadone Maintenance: The Medicine is Not the Problem David Rosenbloom, Director of Join Together, responds to a Washington Post account of a thriving open-air drug market around a D.C. methadone clinic.08/13/2002 (Commentary)
6. Methadone Deaths Not Linked to Treatment Centers A consensus report finds that a recent increase in methadone-related deaths is not primarily connected with misuse of methadone given out at treatment centers.02/09/2004 (News)
7. Sales of Methadone Rise, Along with Overdoses More doctors are prescribing methadone as a painkiller -- a benefit to some patients but also a trend that is fueling a jump in methadone overdoses and deaths.08/14/2006 (News)
9. Mobile Methadone Bypasses NIMBY Methadone maintenance treatment has been burdened since its earliest days by availability shortages. One answer has been mobile methadone dispensaries.10/08/2004 (News)
10. Federal Methadone Report Penned by Industry Backed Author Stewart B. Leavitt, author of a Bush administration report on methadone overdoses, received funding from the company that makes the drug and is a longtime advocate of methadone treatment.06/09/2006 (News)
