I have been taking a high number of calls recently from people wanting to stop taking methadone.
I know I read and see things on the news about a methadone clinic being a great help to cleaning up the drug community. They are praised as being helpful to the addict.
Well okay, however they are still drug addicts. Some of them sell their methadone so they can get the drugs they really want. Some of them are used to get the methadone for others. Some likely live a more normal life as they might not have to be involved in criminal activity. However they are still addicts.
All this is is trading one addictive drug for another addictive drug. Do you know methadone is far more addictive and harder to get off than heroin? Why do this?
One has to go to a medical detox to get weaned off the methadone once you know you are addicted. Don't get on methadone. Get help and handle your addiction.
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What you are saying is incorrect. Methadone patients who take their meds as prescribed do NOT meet the medicalk definition of addiction. Addiction is not just physical dependence on a medication--anyone who takes a narcitic med for more than a week or two is physically dependent in that they will have symptoms of withdrawal if it is abruptly withdrawn. However, addiction includes a variety of behavioral components NOT present in stable, compliant methadone patients--they are dependent, but not "addicted", to their methadone.
Do some people misuse methadone? Sure. However, methadone is the most successful treatment available today for opioid addicts and is far far more successful at returning addicts to a functional life and one that is free of illicit drugs than traditional rehabs. It is on the World Health Organization's list of "essential medications" and even the White House acknowledges it's superior effectiveness and the great good it does for so many.
Well I guess this is exactly what I mean. Jennifer
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