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Federal Ban on Methadone Vans Seen as Barrier to Treatment

March 26, 2018

barrier“From California to Vermont, mobile methadone vans have served people with opioid addiction in rural towns and underserved inner-city neighborhoods for nearly three decades.

But the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which regulates dispensing of the FDA-approved addiction medicine, has refused to license any new methadone vans since 2007 over concerns about potential diversion of the medication.

Now, in an unrelenting opioid epidemic that is killing more than a hundred Americans every day, some state and local addiction agencies are asking the federal government to lift its moratorium as quickly as possible.”

Read more at: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2018/03/23/federal-ban-on-methadone-vans-seen-as-barrier-to-treatment

Source: PewTrust.org – March 23, 2018

Categories: Addiction, Buprenorphine, Methadone, News Updates, Opioid Abuse/Addiction, Opioids
Tags: Addiction, Government, Medication-Assisted Treatment, Methadone Treatment

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