On the need to make access to methadone less punitive: "Punishment, not care, characterizes this form of addiction treatment... No other medication exists for which patients are required to show up daily to receive their dose; meanwhile, patients prescribed methadone for chronic pain can pick it up at any pharmacy. Only people with addiction are forced to travel to special clinics, to wait in long lines, to submit their bodies to daily surveillance."
Doctors, Not Dealers
Punishment, not care, characterizes opioid addiction treatment.
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