Outside prison walls, opiate addicts had been able to receive maintenance doses of prescribed methadone for as many as seven years, some for a lifetime.

The LePage administration has capped prescription methadone to 24 months for MaineCare clients, saving millions in public dollars and forcing opiate addicts to wean from methadone dependence years earlier. On Sunday, May 27, we will look at how methadone users get clean in jail versus those on “the outside,” and what methadone dependence costs taxpayers.

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