New rules should make methadone easier to get, but change is slow in many places toggle caption Karen Brown/New England Public Media It should be easier to get methadone today than it has been in decades. “They just built the rules in this one way that made it incredibly restrictive,” Potee said, “And they never went back to change it, …
But the proposal faces opposition from the health care providers with the most intimate knowledge of methadone treatment: methadone clinic directors. “The idea that a physician in private practice without support staff … that they’re going to be able to treat a complex medical problem like the use of fentanyl, is just not substantiated,” said Mark Parrino, president of the …
