Methadone and Heroin

Methadone is still widely perceived as substituting one drug for another, right? Methadone clinics are typically overrepresented in and black and brown communities. It's never really been fully medicalized despite the history that sort of maybe because it was marketed to affluent middle-class people who had resources to pay for it. methadone has this very long and kind of sorted history with a lot of interconnections with race politics And to this day if you talk to people about what's their image of a methadone patient It's most likely going to be a black and brown poor person.