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Some people like to shoot dope
Ideology and pragmatism in the film ‘Methadone: An American Way of Dealing’ People on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) are in a...
David Frank
Feb 24, 20223 min read


An American Way of Working
In Methadone: An American Way of Dealing, work is everywhere. Dayton, Ohio, the film’s primary location, is introduced to us as a...
Jeremy Milloy
Feb 22, 20225 min read


Methadone: An American Way of Thinking
In 1976, the East German government stole and repurposed for its own broadcasts a copy of Julia Reichert’s and James Klein’s documentary...
Samuel Roberts
Feb 17, 202214 min read


“I envision the methadone clinic as we now know it disappearing”
The promises and failures of methadone and LAAM I’ve watched Methadone: An American Way of Dealing five times now. Each time, I’m taken...
Emily Dufton
Feb 15, 20227 min read


Telling Methadone Stories: Men in Ties
Time has a way of turning lived experience into memory and from then into stories that seem, by turns, improbable and fantastical (yes,...
Joe Spillane
Feb 10, 20225 min read


Intolerable Normalcies: Multiple American Methadones
“To what extent can social problems be circumvented by reducing them to technological problems? Can we identify quick technological fixes...
Nancy Campbell
Feb 8, 20229 min read


The Points Methadone Marathon
Welcome to the home page for the Points Methadone Marathon! January marks ten years since the launch of the Points blog, and to celebrate...
Trysh Travis
Feb 1, 20222 min read
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