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

How can people advocate to #freemethadone? I support legalization but in the mean time can I do anything to get people access to Methadone? I’m just a heart- broken citizen wondering why it’s so hard for people to get an FDA medication. @drugpolicy.org @aclu.org

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

Even if OTPs were abolished today it would be an embarrassment @samhsa and @asam’s only response should be silence for allowing those they swore to protect to suffer so horribly for so long. Methadone’s moment should be one of silence. #freemethadone

What do you do when you are required to electronically sign a form in order to get medication that is completely made up? I never said (nor would I) any of this. I also don’t have Hepatitis C or legal issues. I find this stuff in my records all the time. #freemethadone

When everyone else hid behind their computers I went out into the encampments and fought for people to get the meds they needed, I am permanently disabled as a result. If you are a person who claims to be an advocate I need you to put your conveniences aside to ensure the same for me. #freemethadone

This is why most days I have to change my clothes after the clinic. If I wake up after 4am and have to pee I hold it and usually wind up soiling myself. Ask yourself if you can think of any legitimate reason for a policy like this, seriously any REASONABLE though. #freemethadone.

Every time I see myself on camera I’m reminded that I look chronically ill and older. It informs how much the OTP system trains its employees to view its clients like criminals; just being a patient at the clinic is evidence of guilt, therefore punishment is required. #freemethadone

@clairezagorski.bsky.social Can we talk about the methadone plushie? Every time I see it I am reminded of the deeply abusive system OTPs are and I am respectfully requesting a new design, something that encapsulates the horrors we go through as clients. #freemethadone

The nurses, doctors, clinic directors, state or federal agencies won’t intervene. @PADrugAlcohol @samhsagov @DonaldNorcross #freemethadone

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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At 5:45 I asked to see my counselor at the methadone clinic, she wasn’t in yet. I was expected to sit and wait until she arrived. It’s also implied I should be understanding because it’s 5:30am. I am talking about adults who are asking for grace because they won’t show up on time. #freemethadone

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

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

Hearing people celebrate “methadone’s moment” who aren’t on methadone really bothers me. I wonder if hearing white abolitionists brag about reconstruction felt this way to slaves who told they were free, but were still shackled? #freemethadone

My understanding is 42 cfr Part 8 made split dosing available. What do you do when the medical director refuses and the State Opioid Treatment Authority says it’s up to the medical director’s discretion? #freemethadone

No Senator, unfortunately you’ve been misled. MOTAA will actually cause more deaths. Prescription parity or nothing. #freemethadone #MOTAAVoteNO

As a methadone patient I am ashamed of myself for claiming to be a recovery advocate and harm reductionist for so many years and neglecting to make clinic abolition a priority. #freemethadone

It is striking that the bill came about because patients were fed up and got @DonaldNorcross to advocate. Once @asam got on board all of a sudden methadone is restricted to adxn docs. #freemethadone

I am glad I met and at least had the opportunity to ask them up front why they choose to keep patients shackled. I knew the answer before I went in; everyone pointing their finger at someone else who is doing the same. #freemethadone

The ultimate outcome was, it’s up to the medical director and they are taking a conservative approach, which is code for, “we’re deciding not to provide the rights you deserve as a patient.”
@DonaldNorcross #freemethadone #MOTAAVoteNO

Unless you vehemently oppose MOTAA you are not in my corner. #freemethadone