Legal Action Center's Paul Samuels on progress and challenges for OTPs

Whenever things look dim, people like Paul Samuels look back to what they were like decades ago. “The predominant idea across the country was that people with substance use disorder were bad people, somehow deformed defectives who had a moral weakness,” the president and director of the Legal Action Center (LAC) told attendees at the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) meeting in Philadelphia this month.