How to Use methadone in a Sentence

methadone

noun

• And it’s buprenorphine, rather than methadone, that’s at the center of the fight over MAT.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [e-mail], al, 21 Feb. 2020
• In the fight against drug deaths, there’s no tool more effective than methadone.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 28 Dec. 2022
• In the summer of 1988, having quit heroin for methadone, and toured Japan with Cale, Nico went to Ibiza with her son.
  — Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
• Given that the research for methadone is so strong, the findings are very promising.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
• Use of methadone to manage pain began increasing in the 1990s.
  — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
• Chanel is heading to her new drug-treatment program, a methadone clinic in Harlem when the call comes.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Both buprenorphine and methadone need to be taken daily.
  — Freep.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• The withdrawal symptoms are said to be worse than those from heroin or methadone.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• Harper went on to note that the tests are not designed to detect oxycodone, methadone, or clonazepam.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• Cedar Junction is one of three prisons required by the new state law to provide buprenorphine and methadone to inmates.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
• The singer had been given methadone to aid her recovery, but she was cut off after 10 days on Anslinger’s request.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Feb. 2021
• Smith’s life has not always revolved around her methadone clinic.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 26 Mar. 2024
• Johnny had gotten mixed up with some bastards … who ripped him off for his methadone supply.
  — Alex Heigl, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• What extra rules does Ohio have for methadone dispensing?
  — The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2022
• Only a third offer methadone or buprenorphine, the gold standards in treating OUD.
  — Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Opioid painkillers include pills such as oxycodone as well as morphine or codeine, but not methadone.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Only then they’re only allowed one take-home dose of methadone every 90 days.
  — Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2023
• Even still, some patients treated with methadone begin to use other drugs.
  — Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2020
• The acupuncture, combined with tapering doses of methadone, helped many patients get clean in as few as ten days.
  — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2021
• The prisons started offering buprenorphine on April 1 but have yet to start a methadone program.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
• The pandemic brought some changes to the administration of both methadone and buprenorphine.
  — Quartz, 21 Dec. 2022
• Soon, if not already, some clients of methadone clinics in Ohio will be taking home up to 14 days' worth of their medication.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2020
• Christine Finnigan, 53, has been on methadone for two years to treat her opioid use disorder.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• Though Cody believes that Cindy had stopped using drugs by then (with the help of a nearby methadone clinic), her manic episodes left him unnerved.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Richardson said Curtis was using methadone to treat a heroin addiction at the time.
  — CBS News, 4 Apr. 2023
• At the same time, deaths due to methadone have fallen since 2007, after it was removed from the preferred drug list by state Medicaid programs.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Early testing of the chemical showed methadone and hydrocodone.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Evidence showed that Heaton had Alprazolam, fentanyl, methadone, and morphine in her system at the time of the wreck.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 7 Apr. 2021
• That type of local opposition to methadone treatment centers in Connecticut has not gone away.
  — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• Many jails and prisons—places where people with substance-use disorders endlessly cycle—refuse to prescribe methadone and buprenorphine.
  — Zachary Siegel, Scientific American, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024