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It works wonderfully for my herion addiction and I don't want to go off of it since I know I'd immediately start using again. So many people consider it a "heroin substitute". However, I DO NOT get high on it and it is medically controlled so when taken correctly, there is little risk of an overdose. Not to mention all the awful things that go along with heroin addiction like the risk of contaminated needles, drugs laced with deadly substances, doing illegal things to get your "fix", and the fact that you will eventually end up dead or in prison. The problem is that I still have problems with alcohol and cocaine and methadone DOESN'T help with those addictions. I want to get help for all my substance problems but almost all rehabs are VERY AGAINST Methadone. I don't want to be on Methadone the rest of my life. I will eventually wean myself off (VERY SLOWLY) so that I don't get sick (it is addictive like heroin). Any thoughts about this? Please be kind. This is rough!

I'm not really sure if you can mix it with the methadone or not but Revia (Naltrexone) can help with the cravings for both opiates and alcohol. You may want to ask the clinic where you get the methadone.

And go to an NA and AA meeting. You can find local meetings at www.aa.org and www.na.org

One day at a time.

2007-10-04 18:45:36 by jessica

This is a story from a Philadelphia news station about a methadone clinic and the availability of Methadone on the streets. The video shows ...

lawsuit for privacy violation, patient rights violations, state attorney general office investigation ; occuring in a methadone clinic in state of oklahoma

Yes, I tried that. I am still paying the sanctions for a frivolous lawsuit.

It is hard to repay all that money when you are in jail.

Damn, I am such a loser.

But I will have my frivolous lawsuit paid off, and be out of jail, in time to welcome my Great GrandChildren into the world, in 40 years.

Be like me!

2009-04-04 21:19:32 by patton b

If a celebrity is on methadone, that's great. If it's a normal person, they automatically think the person is a drug addict. Countless people suffer from methadone discrimination and they don't deserve it and didn't do anything to deserve it. Everyone on it gets looked at like they're a drug addict. Why?
Methadone is also for chronic pain and the reason why at least a third of people are on it. People who get in car wrecks and have bad injuries are on methadone for pain and they never abused drugs but they still get discriminated because people associate methadone with drug use. And even if they were on illegal drugs, they're not anymore. Why bother getting off heroin if people are still going to be discriminated against and treated like one?
Techtwos, you're right. Back until several years ago, many methadone clinics blind dosed people meaning they didn't have to tell the patient how much they were on. Many people who were one methadone now are so high a dose from blind dosing that their body can't function without it and most will never come off of it because of that.
REBEL, are you aware that Methadone costs more than a heroin addiction. You can feed a heroin habit for cheaper than methadone. Methadone ranges into the hundreds of dollars a month.
Soul Rebel, I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the other poster who's just Rebel. I agreed with you 100%.

Actually, there was a very good article years ago about this in the New York times...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht ml?res=9407E2DC113FF930A35755C0A96195826 0
Many of us in the MMT community become used to the stigma but it doesn't mean it is right. I am one that doesn't take the name calling, etc. lying down. I have a webpage and a video that is used to educate others about methadone (both can be viewed at http://www.findingnormal.webs.com ) It has become worse for addicts and I believe the reason is twofold:
1. Methadone was introduced as an effective painkiller at a time when doctors were looking for an alternative to Oxycontin. The more something is prescribed the more it is available and the more it is abused. (Prescriptions increased 200% in 2002 with most being from pain clinics.) As abuse increased groups like HARMD & MAMA formed which have been devastating to the use of Methadone to treat addiction.
2. The increase in prescription pill abuse has led to an increase in the need for opiate treatment. Many people found traditional abstinence programs weren't working and scientists discovered addiction to be a disease that effected the brain (permanently by some) which is one reason MMT works!

2008-08-13 17:04:21 by 僕のハート

The withdrawals from methadone addiction take 3 times longer than for heroin (3 weeks against 5 days), and are more painful. I suspect that methadone is preferred simply because it does not give such an intense high as heroin. The medical profession seem to think that getting their patients hooked on a much worse drug is acceptable just as long as no one actually gets high.

Perhaps their interests are more puritanical than medical.
The responses so far seem to miss the point - I am commenting on the hypocrisy of prescribing something more dangerous (methadone) to 'treat' a something less dangerous (heroin), for reasons of moral convenience (no high to get guilty about, and easier maintenance). Isn't this simply unethical? One of the basic tenets of the hyppocratic oath is: "above all, do no harm". This gets conveniently forgotten about when dealing with what society deems "self inflicted" problems such as addiction.

Yes I agree but think they prescribe it because they can monitor the patients intake (not that it works though)

2007-07-01 08:04:43 by zed hex

What information do you already know about this subject? Are you for or against it? Any opinions or comments are appreciated. Thanks.

If they use it as it should be used - not selling it on the street or stock piling it.

2009-06-19 23:53:42 by K-LA.