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NARCOTIC ADDICTION TREATMENT ACT of 1974

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So they want to legalize methadone in order to use it. To treat opioid use disorder. It established a system where methadone for addiction treatment must be dispensed in clinics only. And those clinics were called opioid treatment programs or OTPS. They are registered with the DEA and also the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration and their state's methadone agency before Narcotic Addiction Treatment Act act, the Hatch Narcotics Tax Act of 1912, which is pretty old, prevented clinicians from prescribing opioids to those with an addiction

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