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2 Methadone Treatment: Personal Perspectives
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... . • Policy changes that could improve MOUD include providing access to methadone beyond clinic walls and aligning federal and state regulations (Coulter)
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... It is important to recognize that the experiences of individuals who take methadone for OUD are as varied and diverse as the people themselves; these three perspectives are meant to illustrate personal experiences but cannot fully represent the broad array of experiences or people who have been affected by the current regulatory and legal landscape regulating to how methadone is dispensed and administered. SUSTAINED RECOVERY MAY REQUIRE CONTINUED METHADONE TREATMENT Walter Ginter, project director of the Medication-Assisted Recovery Support (MARSTM)
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... to establish the MARS Project,2 the first project ever funded to provide recovery support services for people on methadone. At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he started training others about implementing medication and recovery services and was awarded another SAMHSA grant to establish the MARS Training Institute.
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... Only a few weeks earlier, her little girl had watched as Davis and a friend were up for days using drugs. Davis finally fell asleep, waking up around 24 hours later to a baby banging her in the head with a bottle because she was hungry.
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... THE NEED FOR A PATIENT-CENTERED FOCUS Abby Coulter introduced herself as "a photographer, a parent, a daughter, a friend, an activist, and a person on methadone." She is also a coauthor of the Methadone Manifesto,4 a document that outlines many policy issues related to methadone treatment and proposes a vision for change from the lens of people with lived experience. Her journey began nearly 20 years ago when she walked into a methadone clinic as a pregnant woman on drugs.
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... She did note that during the COVID-19 pandemic, SAMHSA modified some regulations. "It took a pandemic, an overdose crisis of epic tragic loss, and a failed war on drugs to recognize that what has existed for far too long isn't working anymore."
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