TAXING METHADONE PATIENTS - A TERRIBLE IDEA:
The Charleston (WVa) Gazette on March 21 reported on a bill introduced into the State legislature that would impose a unique tax on methadone treatment providers. The Chairman of the Committee on Health and Human Resources (!), Mr. Don Perdue, rationalized this plan claiming methadone treatment “has become a lucrative industry” (compared to what – radiology, cardiology, dermatology . . . ?). Even Mr. Perdue acknowledges that any tax would inevitably be passed on to the patients.
The fact that all methadone treatment in West Virginia is “for-profit”, and the inadequate availability of other forms of addiction treatment, reflect lack of State support for services that are desperately needed. It is simply wrong – and counter to the interests of every West Virginian - to focus on patients seeking to turn their lives around as the source of funds that the State can’t or won’t provide.
posted by RGNewman, MD @ 3:31 PM
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The cost of MMT is high enough already. I've been on methadone since 2/07 and was on suboxone for 7 months prior to switching to methadone and my clinic here in PA costs $12/day, so I've paid $14,800 for 2 yrs. and 9 mos. of treatment. A tax would make rehab inpossible for some people to get the treatment that they desperately need do to the depletion of the brains ability to produce necessary enorphins
The cost of MMT is high enough already. I've been on methadone since 2/07 and was on suboxone for 7 months prior to switching to methadone and my clinic here in PA costs $12/day, so I've paid $14,800 for 2 yrs. and 9 mos. of treatment. A tax would make rehab inpossible for some people to get the treatment that they desperately need do to the depletion of the brains ability to produce necessary enorphins
sorry, didn't mean to leave that twice
Я проживаю в Израиле прохажу метадоновое лечение с 2001 года .Начинал с 200 шекелей а сейчас плачу 450 шекелей.И боюсь что могут и выгнать с программы.Так как в анализах бензо .Которые мне 2 года выписывает психиатр .
This is getting crazy ive been on methadome for 2 years and the price keeps going up and more and more people cant afford to many people look down on it with out even knowing the facts. I have to drive 2 hours away out of state to my clinc because of people not wating them. Who know I guess they like crime and people on the street better.
Do you have a link to the Norway study you reference?
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