How to Use methadone in a Sentence

methadone

noun

• With the help of methadone, Isaac has been clean for more than 12 years.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• A decade ago, a methadone clinic opened across the street, and the block changed even more.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
• 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
• The boy got his hands on his grandmother's methadone and took the drug.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• Dolophine is a type of methadone in tablet, according to RxList.com.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 11 May 2018
• In the fight against drug deaths, there’s no tool more effective than methadone.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 28 Dec. 2022
• And their tab at the methadone clinic is $150, and steadily rising.
  — Joe Leydon, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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
• And that is exactly what methadone and buprenorphine do.
  — Brendan De Kenessey, Vox, 16 Mar. 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 person who overdosed was using heroin and methadone at the time of the overdose, Manning said.
  — Kate Magill, Columbia Flier, 12 Dec. 2017
• The withdrawal symptoms are said to be worse than those from heroin or methadone.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• Bradley struggled with substance abuse and had been taking methadone for a week to treat pain from a knee injury.
  — Time, 8 Dec. 2017
• As time went on, the effect of methadone treatments on crime becomes more subtle, the researchers found.
  — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 21 Mar. 2018
• That's an incentive for some states to expand access to methadone, the oldest of the treatment drugs.
  — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2017
• That’s an incentive for some states to expand access to methadone, the oldest of the treatment drugs.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
• One person filled a prescription for methadone in May 2013 and was dead two days later.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2017
• Harper went on to note that the tests are not designed to detect oxycodone, methadone, or clonazepam.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• Doctors then treated her with methadone to try to wean her from her addiction.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
• Mackey’s son has since gotten clean through a methadone program.
  — Cat Ferguson, The Verge, 21 May 2018
• The Crossroads of Louisville methadone clinic is situated on a dead-end road.
  — Katrine Jo Andersen, The New Republic, 27 June 2018
• 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
• Several of the state’s methadone providers are in the process of siting and opening new methadone treatment centers in Connecticut, including the first clinic of its kind in Middlesex County.
  — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• In addition to opioid use disorder medications such as buprenorphine and methadone, access to the overdose-reversing drug naloxone (often referred to by the brand name Narcan) has also increased; the drug is now available over the counter.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024