History of medication-assisted treatment and its association with initiating others into injection drug use in San Diego, CA Maria Luisa Mittal, Devesh Vashishtha, Shelly Sun, Sonia Jain, Jazmine Cuevas-Mota, Richard&n…

Methadone maintenance — lessons from two systems in China Shui-Shan Lee and Robert Newman Harm Reduction Journal2017, 14:66, doi.org/10.1186/s12954-017-0193-7 https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-…

Barriers to retention in methadone maintenance therapy among people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand: a mixed-methods study Kanna Hayashi, Lianping Ti, Prempreeda Pramoj Na Ayutthaya, Paisan Suwannawong, Karyn&nbs…

For John, a heroin user for seven years, there were a few snags that, for a while, held him back from getting stable on methadone treatment. Staff in two methadone clinics wanted him to give urine samples in front of them – a level of intrusi…

In the whirr of preparations for Hurricane Irma, a needle exchange program in Miami's Overtown neighborhood handed out extra syringes to heroin users. Others trying to break from the drug's grasp picked up advance medication from methadone clinics…

USA. They were opioid addicts on their way to recovery. Then the hurricane hit. What it’s like when you miss a methadone dose due to natural disaster. (VOX, 11.09.2017) https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/9/8/16273590/hurricane-harvey-irma…