The Trench Methadone Clinic and the David Trench Rehabilitation Clinic, both in Hong Kong, are named after him
On an episode of True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, Larry Birkhead stated that security in the house indicated that Daniel had stolen his mother's methadone.
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Cyril Wecht, an American forensic pathologist, stated Daniel Smith accidentally overdosed on methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro.
Levacetylmethadol, a synthetic opioid similar in structure to methadone
Methadone was developed in 1937 in Germany by scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart working for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG at the Farbwerke Hoechst (it is synthesised from 1,1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane) who were looking for a synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem.
New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer, 440 U.S. 568 (1979), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in which the constitutionality of an employer's refusal to hire methadone users was upheld.