We need Congress to modernize our workforce and treatment capacity to reduce overdose deaths! Thanks to the MA lawmakers for meeting with us today to discuss expanded methadone prescribing & HRSA funding for Addiction Med Fellowships and for loan repayment #SaveLives #AMAC23

Spend of your Sunday fun day at ASAM learning about #methadone and #covid changes and how the ⛅️didn’t fall when we gave ppl take homes with the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Ruth Potee, MD, FASAM marginalutilite David Frank, PhD Leslie Suen, MD, MAS Paul Joudrey eventscribe.net/2023/ASAM/agen…

filtermag.org/methadone-clin… How many more people would still be alive today if methadone could be picked up at a local drug store once a month? @asam2023 Congressman Donald Norcross 🇺🇸 Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon, Ph.D. Ayana “Get out & Vote” Jordan Ruth Potee, MD, FASAM Louise Beale Harm Reduction International OSF Harm Reduction #freemethadone

Reflecting today at #ASAM2023 on how much of what we do seems determined first and foremost by the regulatory frameworks we work in, with the science and the expressed needs of our patients as a distant second and third. Science should follow needs, policy should follow evidence.

Whoa our research getting mentioned in a POLITICO newsletter! Hoping this brings more attention to the issue of jails/prisons needing to offer #addiction treatment #MedTwitter #Overdose #Reentry #AddictionMedicine Boston Medical Center Benjamin P. Linas politico.com/newsletters/po…

First big steps toward freedom for people on methadone! SAMHSA released "The Guidance" today authorizing increased take-home bottles and a decreased focus on drug-screens for people who are doing well. Push your local OTP to change!

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So excited to share my essay in The Washington Post madebyhistory. Nixon-era, War on Drugs politics are to blame for the stigma and inaccessibility of methadone, one of the most effective medications for opioid addiction. washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Do you love history? Want to know the story behind one of the two women who discovered that methadone could help stabilize people away from illicit opiates? This is a great series on Dr. Marie Nyswander. #freemethadone @asam

Such a great overview of Methadone. And so infuriating that it became politized, criminalized and stigmatized. How many lives have been, and continue to be lost to our regressive policies? Just gut-wrenching. lostwomenofscience.org/season-5

Want to know what going to a Methadone clinic is like? This is one of the best stories of personal experience. Ask people to listen. Let's raise awareness. Episode 67: Methadone in the Time of Covid with Danielle Russell narcocast.com/episode-67-met… via @narcocast

Listen to me chat about substance use and HIV on the American Academy of HIV Medicine podcast! (I've long been told I have a great face for radio.) Denver Health

This is going to be an awesome conference. Save the date now!!! Follow National Coalition to Liberate Methadone + listen to the National Survivors Union (NSU, formerly USU) podcast Naturally Noncompliant open.spotify.com/show/0tDQN6H8f… as an enraging primer about the current methadone system.

I have said that “diversion” is most often an act of empathy and, thus, love. And research backs this intuitive claim, as most is used to self-treat (because we don’t have universal health care here!) So interdiction and criminalization will always entail cruelty and failure.

Split dosing methadone can be a very effective way to stabilize patients with chronic pain on top of OUD, pregnancy, or significant side effects with higher doses of methadone. Cheers to Hannan Braun, MD for spearheading! Hannan Braun Methadone Clinic Abolition Collective (MCAC) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

On June 21,Energy and Commerce Committee will discuss legislation to strengthen its response to the overdose crisis; addiction specialists express deep disappointment that #MOTAA is not on the docket; urge US House to rise to the moment & cut red tape on methadone for OUD. Read here:

ASAM Energy and Commerce Committee AMA Shatterproof AMERSA American College of Medical Toxicology ACP Faces & Voices NAATP Grayken Center for Addiction Drug Policy Alliance American Pharmacists Association Thank you ASAM for keeping this in the forefront of public policy.

Ruth Potee, MD, FASAM Methadone Clinic Abolition Collective (MCAC) attached is the article!