Donate to Living on Methadone

Support an independent documentary about opioid addiction, recovery, and the fight for evidence-based treatment.

Living on Methadone is an independent feature documentary exploring opioid addiction, recovery, and one of the most effective yet misunderstood treatments for opioid use disorder. Your contribution helps us complete the film, finish post-production, and bring these stories to communities, families, healthcare professionals, and audiences across the country.

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Living on Methadone is fiscally sponsored by the International Documentary Association (IDA). Donations made through IDA may be tax-deductible as allowed by law.

  • Living on Methadone tells the human stories behind opioid addiction and recovery, while examining one of the most effective yet misunderstood treatments for opioid use disorder. The film aims to challenge stigma, bring greater understanding to medication-assisted treatment, and give people in recovery the dignity and visibility they deserve. Your support helps bring this independent documentary to completion and to audiences who need to see it.

  • Your donation directly supports the completion and release of Living on Methadone. Contributions help fund editing, animation, original music, sound design and mixing, color grading, legal clearances, archival materials, final deliverables, festival submissions, and community outreach. These finishing stages are essential to bringing the film from its current production and editing phase to a completed documentary ready for audiences.

  • The opioid crisis has changed dramatically, but many barriers to effective treatment remain. Methadone has been used to treat opioid addiction for decades and is supported by extensive evidence, yet access is still limited by stigma, regulation, geography, and misunderstanding.

    Living on Methadone looks beyond statistics to show how these policies affect real people, their families, their work, and their ability to rebuild their lives. The film asks a simple but urgent question: if effective treatment exists, why is it still so difficult for many people to access it?

  • Living on Methadone is a feature-length documentary exploring opioid addiction, recovery, and medication-assisted treatment, with a particular focus on methadone. Filmed across Texas, New York, Washington, D.C., and Arizona, the film combines intimate personal stories with interviews with clinicians, historians, journalists, and policymakers.

    Rather than presenting addiction only as a medical or policy issue, the film focuses on the people living through it and the complicated systems surrounding their recovery.

  • Living on Methadone is fiscally sponsored by the International Documentary Association (IDA). Donations made to the project through its fiscal sponsor may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

    For a tax-deductible contribution, please use the official donation link provided on this page.