Most health experts laud methadone. In King County, less than one in five addicts can be on methadone at one time. Up to 600 people are often on the waiting list. The county plans to expand the number of treatment slots to 3,150, but a lack of increased funds may jeopardize the effect. The increase also comes five years after the heroin death toll soared in the mid-1990s.
Addiction is a chronic illness just like diabetes.
It's no more rational not to have access to methadone as it is to limit the supply of insulin to people with diabetes. People should not have to die of substance abuse problems that are treatable.