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Mallinckrodt donates hand sanitizers to all OTPs
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32744
Subject(s) - mallinckrodt , hand sanitizer , buprenorphine , covid-19 , medicine , business , family medicine , opioid , infectious disease (medical specialty) , receptor , disease , pathology
Mallinckrodt, a pharmaceutical company that makes methadone and buprenorphine for opioid treatment programs (OTPs) as well as many other medications, started out making hand sanitizer for its own plant employees when the pandemic began this winter. It wasn't long, however, before the company recognized that OTPs needed hand sanitizer — like everyone else, they were unable to get it. So last month, the St. Louis–based company started distributing it — for free — to all OTPs, not only its customers.