BOSTON, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — Senator Ed Markey has issued a statement calling for wider access to the opioid addiction medication, methadone, after a study was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that patients treated with methadone had a lower risk of discontinuing treatment than those treated with naloxone or buprenorphine. Senator Markey introduced a bill in 2023 aiming to expand access to methadone in the face of a fentanyl crisis.