Trends in use of medicines for opioid agonist treatment in Australia, 2013-2022.  Bharat C, Chidwick K, Gisev N, Farrell M, Ali R, Degenhardt L.  Int J Drug Policy. 2023 Nov 28;123:104255. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104255. Epub ahead of…

Health-care resource use among patients who use illicit opioids in England, 2010–20: A descriptive matched cohort study.  van Hest N, Brothers TD, Williamson A, Lewer D.  Addiction. 2023. doi.org/10.1111/add.16401 ht…

USA/Australien. After Years of US Clinics, I Get Methadone With Dignity in Australia I recently moved from the United States to Sydney, Australia. Uprooting your entire life can always be stressful. But a big extra stressor for me was uncertainty a…

USA. Pregnancy in Withdrawal: Methadone Clinic Tore My Family Apart I was told my mother "relapsed" during her pregnancy, leading to my sister being adopted. Until recently, I assumed this to be true. (Filter, USA, 07.12.2023) https://filtermag.or…

USA. Study: Proposed law would expand methadone access, but gaps would remain The federal Modernizing Opioid Treatment Act, or MOTA, would expand methadone access to an additional 14% of census tracts in the U.S., according to new research from the…

Methadone prescribing by addiction specialists likely to leave communities without available methadone treatment,  Paul J Joudrey, Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, Susan Paykin, Christina Mair, Marynia Kolak,  Health Affairs Scholar, Volume 1…