Now, some public health experts hope that mobile treatment programs, like the one in the Bronx, will help increase access.
Methadone, itself a potent opioid, has been used for decades to treat people addicted to drugs like heroin.
Vinny Parisi goes every weekday morning to an R.V.-size white van parked at a Days Inn in the South Bronx to receive a dose of methadone, which saves him time.
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