Physicians Like Me Must Oppose Medical Discrimination Against Methadone Patients

Methadone patients are routinely denied the care they need, ultimately exacerbating health disparities.

While working as a physician at our local county hospital at San Francisco General recently, I cared for a patient I will call Jack. He stuck out to me because he had been in the hospital for two months, an exceptionally long time for a hospital admission, as most people are only admitted for three to five days. He’d been hospitalized for a stroke and needed post-acute rehabilitation in a skilled...

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