Methadone Maintenance Treatment Is Not a Health Care Setting

Methadone maintenance treatment is the only treatment that is surveilled by the d.e.a. directly You have to be watched while you take it and often you're regularly you're in tested And someone follows you into the bathroom to watch you peeing into a cup So this is the experience every day of people who are on methadone quote-unquote treatment. Most people training in medicine and even addiction medicine don't have exposure to methadone clinics It's a very big gap Between standard medical practice and what happens in methadone hospitals.