Relaxed methadone rules appear safe, researchers find
As the coronavirus pandemic shut down the nation in March of 2020, the U.S. government told methadone clinics they could allow stable patients with opioid addiction to take their medicine at home unsupervised. The share of overdose deaths involving methadone declined from 4.5% in January 2019 to 3.2% in August 2021, the study found. Dr. Neeraj Gandotra, chief medical officer of the federal agency that regulates methadone clinics, called the early analysis “very promising.” When the government eased restrictions, it said stable patients could receive 28 days of take-home methadone and less stable ones could get 14 days. Then, in the months after the policy change, deaths involving methadone held steady while other fatal overdoses continued to climb.
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