It strikes me as very very odd. This woman opened a practice specifically for treating substance abuse patients and what I found online about her showed years of dedication to changing opioid prescribing policies and preventing the overprescribing that led to the epidemic in the first place. I fully expected her to be some off her rocker crazy trying to use meds in ways they’re not intended to be or someone likely abusing drugs herself. Neither seem to be the case. And frankly, I don’t know how she could be prescribing methadone and it not be considered within the scope of her practice when it’s literally with those in substance abuse treatment and many of those patients are prescribed suboxone and methadone. If she isn’t doing anything nefarious, this is terrifying and I agree it will just lead to more doctors being unwilling to treat populations with conditions that call for prescribing scheduled drugs.