> Most addicts choose methadone treatment, incentivized by the fact that people are still arrested or otherwise face social opprobrium in the still illegal hero

> Most addicts choose methadone treatment, incentivized by the fact that people are still arrested or otherwise face social opprobrium in the still illegal heroin market. Maybe they chose methadone because it’s supplied over the counter, and because it’s of a known pure quality, and it removes the users out of the black market and its criminality. Methadone is still an opiate, and the way it’s distributed is as close to opiate legalization as it gets.