Perspective: The Nixon-era roots of today’s opioid crisis
But after 1972, if a patient needed methadone for the treatment of addiction, patients had to commute daily to “methadone treatment programs” to receive their dose. In short, they were treated as criminals.Just as Black men were targeted by the criminal justice system, so too were they by this treatment system. The patients receiving methadone at the NTA were. True then and true now, the construction of the image of “the criminal” has never been race-neutral in America.
And that’s what happened. The relationship between methadone and crime — rather than the association between methadone and patients’ well-being — informed the strict requirements that continue to define methadone treatment today.Because the federal government viewed people who used drugs as potential criminals, they devised a regulatory apparatus for methadone that was intentionally distinct from other forms of medical care.
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