Bridge Clinic looks forward to state’s not-so-distant future after Assembly Bill 2115 became law
California regulations around methadone, an opioid-addiction treatment that experts consider a lifesaving medication, are now in line with federal guidelines.
Crucially, it’s the only clinic in The City — and one of only a handful in the state — that offers up to three days worth of methadone doses to patients suffering from opioid addictions without being an officially licensed opioid treatment program. The patients can’t yet take those doses home, but will soon be able to under the new state regulations.
The Bridge Clinic is not a licensed opioid treatment program, but Snyder said that the former state guidelines on the medication did not prohibit the Bridge Clinic from giving patients three days of doses in person. Most clinics, she noted, don’t offer this due to administrative challenges of providing methadone.
District 5 supervisor candidates battle over Tenderloin’s future Conditions in the neighborhood have taken center stage a month to go before Election Day It’s one that San Francisco public-health officials have increasingly sought to rely upon in the aftermath of last year, The City’s deadliest for drug overdoses since officials started recording data in 2020. While the San Francisco Department of Public Health has removed barriers to buprenorphine access through a variety of methods, expanded access to methadone was harder to attain up until now.
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