Methadone clinic lines and packed waiting rooms leave clients vulnerable to the coronavirus
At methadone clinics in two states, people who had tested positive for #Covid19 were still having to pick up their treatments in person, putting others at risk.
One photo shows a long line of people standing close together while waiting for methadone at the counter of an opioid treatment program in Minneapolis last Friday. Another shows a crowded waiting room last Saturday at a similar clinic in Winston-Salem, N.C.
These images, collected by an advocacy group, show that many people are having to risk Covid-19 infection to get their addiction-treatment medication — weeks after the federal government relaxed rules that require people to show up at clinics every day to get methadone.
Aimed at reducing the spread of the , the new rules allow people considered “stable” to
