USA. Commission to Look at Methadone Regs, But Don’t Hold Your Breath A new National Methadone Access and Quality Commission has been created by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE). It will be headquartered at Yale University and chai…

USA. Methadone Clinics to Blame for Unacceptable Drop-Out Rates Given what the methadone clinic system subjects them to, is it really a surprise that people who take the medication in the United States don’t stay in treatment for very long? A new c…

Treating Opioid Use Disorder With Methadone in Pharmacies.  Tschampl CA, Feltus SR, Soranno E, et al.  JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(3):e260703. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.0703 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle…

Methadone Maintenance Treatment and the Pharmacy’s Bottom Line.  Joudrey PJ.  JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(3):e260667. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.0667 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2846509

Evaluating the optimal duration of medication treatment for opioid use disorder.  Hayes CJ, Raciborski RA, Acharya M, Noor NB, Nunes EV, Winhusen TJ.  Addiction. 2026;121(4):922–933. doi.org/10.1111/add.70211 https://onlinelibrary.wiley…

OPTIMUS: establishing international consensus on user-reported outcomes for opioid agonist maintenance treatment (Homepage) Overview The OPTIMUS study group, coordinated by the EUDA, aims to establish international consensus on monitoring user-rep…