Americans have for decades paid a staggering price for the counter-productive “war on drugs” precisely considering of hasty, unfounded, knee-jerk conclusions that doing more of the same will lead to different outcomes. The newspaper offers nothing to propose the problem of rising overdose rates lie…

One interesting facet is the diametrically opposite views of authors and “subjects” regarding detoxification. “Complete informed consent procedures” were applied, but one must wonder whether the info provided (by the researchers and by their clinical colleagues) included the judgment that …

But what a travesty, and how tragic for patients as well as the general community! In the meantime, as government mulls by what it should do, many patients are turning to the only sources available to pay for their potentially life-and-death treatment: “The cost of methadone programs is driving som…

A company agrees to settle a discrimination claim filed by The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a qualified employment applicant who was denied employment considering he was receiving methadone treatment for pain. For Full Story go HEREOriginal post by RGNewman, MD

…[With methadone maintenance] the federal government trades places with the street dealer, swapping heroin for methadone and feeding the addiction with taxpayer dollars. that is disgusting and it is immoral.” (Entire speech on floor of Senate, May, 1999, accessible at http://www.methadonetoday.o…

And when that doctor states that “the counselor made me to do it,” I suspect the current situaiton may change. Deng Xiao Ping once said: It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or yellow, as lengthy as it catches rats.” Well, in terminology as applied to those treated with methadone, semantics do…

The charge - and a 12-year sentence without possibility of parole! There was nothing to link the stillbirth to the cocaine use, as noted by a host of expertsFor the full story on the National Advocates for Pregnant Women WebsiteClick here - was the aftermath of a stillbirth that the prosecutor alle…

The top physician-hygienist and the leader of nation’s consumer protection agency, Gennadi Onischtschenko, declared at the end of a conference on AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that there is as yet no evidence to support the notion that methadone treatment is effective. Go figure(from Ria …

How did the 15% differ from the 85%? And next, when endorphins were discovered, their speculation suddenly made great sense. To that day no one has the reply. Many folks dismissed their speculation and I remember a very highly respected leader in the field (maybe the MOST respected leader) at a co…

Ultimately, I’m a believer in clinical observation rather than fancy and expensive lab tests. I see zero rationale ever for decreasing a dose based on P-T levels. What counts is how the patient is doing - NOT what a lab experiment shows (identical reasoning for my disdain for urine tests!). T…