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Addiction Medicine Series #1 Methadone for OUD w/Dr. Ruth Potee

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Do You Have a Methodone Clinic?

There are forty nine states that have methodone clinics. Wyoming has nothing. There's parts of the island chain of hawaii there's no methodone. You need to ask yourself, in my town in the middle of kansas, is there a methodon clinic that she can reach? And if the answers no, then starting hern method on her long term treatment is not realistic. People do much better on long term, stable treatment than they do on a taper. If you started her to help her suffering while she was with you, and yet she couldn't get into method on clinic cause she didn't qualify. We would have to deal with that outcome. So we ask people

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