Book goes on sale on March 3 #freemethadone #abolishOTPs

The book & audiobook will be published next month and is ready for pre-order now #freemethadone #abolishOTPs

A Methadone Pioneer Who Freed People From the Cruel Clinic System From 1985-2020, Dr. Edwin Salsitz ran an office-based program giving people a month of take-homes. How does he see the landscape now?

filtermag.org/methadone-pi... “When we handed them the bottle of methadone with a label on it, which looked like a drug-store bottle of anything, some of the patients would cry.” #freemethadone #abolishOTPs @mountsinainyc.bsky.social @vitalstrategies.org

I was standing at the dosing window shaking because I had to pee so badly and once I found out I didn’t have to provide a UDS I ran to the bathroom as I started peeing myself, urine running down my leg; the other clients laughed while saying, “I know the feeling.” #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

I am going to start seeing a therapist who I will pay out of pocket because my insurance already pays for forced counseling at the methadone clinic. I’m paying a therapist to help me process through the trauma of forced counseling, the revolving door of adxn treatment. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

I was hospitalized for 3 weeks last year and I did not wake up in withdrawal every day because I received methadone instead of Methaose™️, the formulation responsible for countless deaths in BC. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

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I used to teach my kids CPR because it was good for them to know. Now, with everything I go through with the methadone clinic I’ve noticed I am much more serious and intentional because I worry it’s my life they’ll need to save. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

Every time you say “you can pick it up at the pharmacy” you are acknowledging massive failure. No other medication is spoken about in this manner; ask yourself why, and what have you done to rebuild it. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

I’ve only been on methadone for 16 months, I’m the newcomer. So many other people deserve better. I’m so ashamed I left this class by the wayside for Suboxone.😞 #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

Every morning I wake up in a panic wondering if today is the day I get selected to pee in camera. All I can think about is feeling, smelling, and tasting the metal cot my face was pressed into as I was being raped. Tell me again about incremental change. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

This ridiculous belief is why methadone clinics must go away. This statement is not true. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

It represents the industry that is literally killing me. #freedmethadone #AbolishOTPs

Methadone bottle plushies further drive home the idea that we can’t be trusted picking it up at the pharmacy like any other medication. This trivializes the abuse thousands endure everyday. I know the intent was pure, but it’s really insensitive. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

I heard a man at the clinic today say he had to use a sick from work to come in for a bottle check; he had a full set, meaning he is monumentally stable. I wish the clinic allowed for sick days. #freemethadone #AbolishOTPs

As a methadone patient I find this infuriating. Nora Volkow is completely out of touch with reality. We deserve for you to #abolishOTPs, no apologies, no promises, no share your story, get it done.

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