Interim maintenance treatment

42 U.S. Code § 300y-11. Interim maintenance treatment

(a) Requirement regarding SecretarySubject to the following subsections of this section, for the purpose of reducing the incidence of the transmission of HIV disease pursuant to the intravenous use of heroin or other morphine-like drugs, the Secretary, in establishing conditions for the use of methadone in public or nonprofit private programs of treatment for dependence on such drugs, shall authorize such programs—
(1) to dispense methadone for treatment purposes to individuals who—
(A)
meet the conditions for admission to such programs that dispense methadone as part of comprehensive treatment for such dependence; and
(B)
are seeking admission to such programs that so dispense methadone, but as a result of the limited capacity of the programs, will not gain such admission until 14 or more days after seeking admission to the programs; and
(2)
in dispensing methadone to such individuals, to provide only minimum ancillary services during the period in which the individuals are waiting for admission to programs of comprehensive treatment.
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