Methadone Archives

Social Justice

Never Before Has Our Approach to Drugs Improved So Much, So Fast

We're winning: More progress has been made toward enlightened drug policies and treatment in the past five years than in the previous 25. Here's an advocacy agenda to take us even closer to the future we need.

Maia Szalavitz

News in Brief

The Dangers of Criminalizing Pregnancy Outcomes

New legislation in Tennessee has implications much wider than the use of illegal drugs by pregnant mothers-to-be.

Lauren Kirchner

Social Justice

Kicking Methadone With Johnny Winter

How sleight-of-hand—and obsessive-compulsive disorder—helped the guitarist shake 30 years of addiction.

Ted Scheinman

Social Justice

Pharma’s Fraught Quest for Addiction Medication Pay Dirt

Examining the medical, moral, and monetary decisions that Alkermes made to bring its drug Vivitrol to market—including a controversial trial in Russia. Are the critics right to cry foul?

Walter Armstrong