Methadone Treatment
Methadone Matters: Evolving Community Methadone Treatment of Opiate Addiction
(Paperback) Informa Healthcare 2003-04-03
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I have a friend who has finally decided to get herself treated for her heroin addiction. I've heard a lot of good things about buprenorphine as a detox option, but I know that a lot of people are still banking on methadone as a good way of detoxing. I just want to know the disadvantages of using methadone so that I can warn my friend as well as help her in making a decision.
Methadone does help opiate dependent persons to stop abusing drugs by decreasing cravings and withdrawal symptoms. However, using methadone does have its own disadvantages. Due to the fact that methadone can only be administered in licensed methadone treatment clinics, the patients must deal with making daily trips to a methadone clinic. These clinics are mostly located in or near urban centers, so driving long distances happens to be part of the daily routine of patients in rural areas. Another disadvantage to using methadone is the fact that it can also lead to addiction. Methadone abuse is increasing in the Northeast region, and can result to overdose deaths.
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Wouldn't people get addicted to methadone too? I know people started out believing that heroin is some kind of treatment for morphine addiction. What if methadone is the same way? I'm just really curious.
Methadone has already been proven to be safe and effective which is why it is used for addiction treatment. For so long as methadone is properly prescribed, it won't be sedating nor intoxicating. Its effects will not get in the way of normal activities. Its taken orally and prevents withdrawal symptoms for as long as 24 to 36 hours. Aside from that, when methadone is taken, it relieves the individual's heroin craving, the biggest cause for relapse. It is also medically safe, so even if people use it for ten years straight, it's okay. With the help of counseling and therapy, methadone will be able to bring people back their productivity and sober lives.
There are a lot of other medications available for the treatment of opioid addiction. I was just wondering what makes other people choose those over methadone.
Methadone can only be administered in methadone clinics and thus the patients will have to make do with taking some time daily to get their dosage. Aside from this, methadone can also get the patient addicted to it. Addiction to methadone, though, is not as dangerous as getting addicted to other opiates. However, at some point, the patient will have to go through withdrawal from methadone. Withdrawal from methadone must never be done without the supervision of a physician.
I know methadone is commonly used, but I've heard that it can be addictive as well. I suppose it could be true, as heroin was first believed to be a medication for morphine addiction. So, are there other treatments for heroin addiction?
Yes, there is. There's naloxone, which is an opiate receptor blocker that adheres to neurons so the opiates wouldn't work. There's naltrexone, which is an opiate receptor blocker used to treat addiction to heroin. There's also buprenorphine, which, as of now, seems the most appealing medication of them all, as it requires less dosage, and has the least withdrawal symptoms, if any.
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Far more effective
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Methadone is addictive, and causes the deaths of several children in this country every year. They find it in the fridge and mistake it for juice. (It has to be kept cold)
Once heroin addicts switch to methadone, they then have to come off of that. Plus taking a drug thats similar to heroin doesn't treat heroin addiction, its very easy to start again.
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Council has more questions for operators of methadone clinicKawartha Media Group - Jul 05, 2011
At last week's meeting, regional councillor Debbie Bath suggested the municipality should meet with representatives of Ontario Addiction Treatment Centres (also known as OATC) to discuss the possibility of moving the methadone clinic.Lexington Herald Leader - Jul 05, 2011
State can't fight drug abuse without more treatmentNo amount of tracking will ever stop addicts from using. They live to use, and use to live. The same is true of alcoholism. Until we provide people hope, this will only get worse. Kentucky has two methadone clinics that dose more than 1000 people a day
Baltimore Sun - Jun 30, 2011
The operators of a proposed "open access" methadone clinic for heroin addicts, which promised treatment within 15 minutes, say they will delay the launch by 30 days to work out differences with state regulators. The clinic was to open July 5 from 6 pm Baltimore Methadone Clinic Opening Delayed 30 Daysall 9 news articles »BBC News - Jun 19, 2011
Mirror.co.ukDrugs policy 'doomed to failure'According to the report's author Kathy Gyngell, chairwoman of the prisons and addictions policy forum at the CPS, prescribing methadone to addicts delays their recovery. She told the BBC: "The state is subsidising people to be any number of years on Failure to help drug addicts is costing Britain £3.6bn a yearAddicts cost you £3.6bnBenefits and treatment for drug addicts cost £3.6 billion a year - -all 230 news articles »
The Guardian - Jun 25, 2011
BBC attacked over coverage of 'misleading' methadone reportBarnes outlined a series of further examples where he said the report had conflated the true cost of methadone treatment and benefits paid to drug addicts. He pointed out that last year the National Audit Office concluded that drug treatment represents and more »
Baltimore Sun (blog) - Jun 25, 2011
O'Malley's office: Citation for methadone clinic not endorsementMartin O'Malley's health department has not granted permission for the reverend to open the new facility, which will provide methadone to addicts within 15 minutes by ignoring some of the federal and state requirements for evaluation and treatment. Baltimore pastor plans to open methadone clinic despite not having state and all 12 news articles »
Bucks Local News - Jul 04, 2011
She has not used heroin in 19 months, and continues to attend the Jersey Shore Addiction Services program for methadone treatment and group counseling. She has become a peer advocate herself and finds that helping others helps her stay clean.