AATOD's five‐year plan focuses on need to increase access.

When the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) released its five‐year plan for 2022‐26 last month, opioid treatment programs (OTPs) were already on the brink of massive changes, which some call reform, and others call deregulations. The AATOD and OTPs embrace most of these changes, because they benefit patients and providers alike, freeing up more space for treatment with methadone as well as comprehensive services during an opioid overdose crisis that seems to have no end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]