How to Use methadone in a Sentence

methadone

noun
Definition of methadonenext
  • 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 | Avollers@al.com, 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
  • For nearly a decade, methadone has helped Stephanie juggle jobs and take care of her kids.
    — Kim Krisberg, NPR, 16 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Officers did not find methadone in Jones’ home, Sparks said.
    — Domingo Ramirez Jr., star-telegram, 3 May 2017
  • 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.
    — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
  • That's an incentive for some states to expand access to methadone, the oldest of the treatment drugs.
    — CBS News, 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
  • For the past nine months, she’s been using methadone, an opioid treatment drug designed to wean her off heroin.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2017
  • With opioid use disorder, some people improve with meetings and therapy, others take buprenorphine or methadone for a short time, and others need to stay on those opioid withdrawal drugs.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Feb. 2024

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