How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll.
Category: Methadone
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Acadia Healthcare’s Methadone Clinics Face Fraud Complaints
Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren’t addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found.
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Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds
Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine.