Methadone Drug Addiction .com

My son is a heroin addict. Dr. perscribed methadone. He's had 3 relapses and has repeatedly been perscribed methadone. Is it possible he will have to stay on it the rest of his life? It seems every time he gets taken off of it, he gets nightmares about using, gets insomnia, and anxiety and then goes back to using. Any help out there would be very much appreciated.

Methadone is actually even more addictive then heroine. What your son is going through is the cold turkey and the effects of stopping with the drug. This is supposed to be so horrible, for both drugs, that it seems impossible for him to stop. It's easy to fal back into his drughabit.
Even after he is physical clean, which takes a few days, he is still mentally addicted. He needs help.
With some good help, first he has to make sure he gets of the drugs physically with no chance of falling back. A clinic might help him. He could also do that at home, but it will be so strong that he might not be able to withstand the enormous temptation to use again. So he needs the help of people who will make it imposible for him to leave at that stage and who not give in to him.
After this stage, he needs to find ways to stay clean. The thing is that first of all very often a person's whole social life is around drugs, which makes it difficult to stay away from it, and second of all: what's the reason for his drugaddiction anyway? What is behind it? Most often there are things behind it, like traumatic experiences or the need for warmh and understanding. So he needs a professional to help him learn what is behind it and how to deal with those issues.
He doesn't just need to fight only the surface addiction, but he needs to get the root of the problem out.
There are many clinics and docters that are not good and use unhealthy techniques for this. Thank god there are also some very good drugtherapists and clinics. He might need them!
He will NOT have to stay on drugs for the rest of his life. But, without good help, he might have a problem with drugs the rest of his llife. An addiction like this is hard to deal with, but absolutely NOT impossible!

The best to you and your son!

Maybe the two links down here can help you a bit to continue your search:

A good book by a very good therapist:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query .fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&lis t_uids=9219150&dopt=Abstract

Also interesting to read:
http://www.drstp.drugeducation.com/PDF/E stoniaSummaryEnglish.pdf

About methadone and heroine:
http://www.istc.ru/istc/sc.nsf/news/scie nce-news-methadone-vs-heroine.htm

2007-04-02 22:27:38 by Helen P

Update: we can now have blind detox at our clinic but now my beef is you have to wake 2 whole yrs to get your takehomes where you only go 1 time a ...

My fiance is addicted to pain pills. We have talked about getting her some help from a methadone clinic. I have researched methadone, and from what I am seeing, some people use methadone for pain relief, and some people have even gotten addicted to it. How is this helping a person who is trying to get off pain pills, if their taking something that they could also get addicted to?

My father was put on methodone in an effort to "wean" him off of oxycontin. He got off the oxcyontin but became horribly addicted to the methodone. The next step was to wean him off of the methodone. The substitute they gave him for pain relief did not work, withdrawl from the methodone made him severly depressed. He committed suicide. Please don't let her take methodone.

2007-11-05 19:49:16 by mr.margarita

Price: $9.95 $9.95

i've been on methadone for years and about a year ago i tried crystal meth. i began to notice that when i used crystal, i didnt need as much methadone. why is that? i also wanted to know why after prolonged use of both, i began to loose my strength,muscle.why?

Methadone is to replace heroin, an opiate. Crystal meth is speed, an amphetamine. Mixing these two drugs can have devastating effects on your body and the way your brain works
(both body and brain will cease to work if you keep doing this)

2010-08-20 14:45:33 by Melicia

My girlfriend has been on methadone for about 2-3 months for chronic pain. At max, she was taking 60-80mgs a day. Everything I read on the internet regarding withdrawal symptoms is regarding people who have been on 200mgs a day for years. She is obviously in a different criteria. Does anyone have a good resource regarding what to expect, and the best ways to get off of short-term methadone use in relation to withdrawal symptoms it will product?

DO NOT GOTO A METHADONE CLINIC...only about 10% have a legit program that works.Most clinic are just about the money.I will give you 2 options or advice.If she was taking the methadone for pain and it was prescribed,then the doctor should wean her down...if he/she wont,then another doctor will since it was prescribed.However,if you were getting them off the street,a doctor will refer you to a clinic.I have posted a link to a drug forum and a detox forum with people who have experience.My suggestion to you is KRATOM.Kratom is a great herb that has saved my life.Be aware that kratom can be addicting to,so please do your research before attempting kratom use.I will also post a link to kratom info.Its long,but you can scroll right down to its uses and pharmacology section.Its being considered as a methadone replacement.Methadone is BAD,BAD and by the way 60 to 80mgs of methadone a day aint a cake walk to come off from.It may seem small compared to the other doses...but it definately aint fun coming off 40mgs a day.That was extremely hard for me.Enough to NEVER do methadone again.OH and I was only on it for about 28days...but in fairness I was using methadone to come off hydrocodone SO i already had a dependant to hydrocodone...but coming off hydrocodone was a cake walk in the past compared to methadone.But me being stupid,listened to an aquaintance the recommended methadone to fight my withdrawal symptom...I thought.WHY NOT?Bad choice on my part.I pray that she comes off ok one way or another.All I can say is kratom worked for me.Good luck

Oh and BALI strain of kratom is best for opiate withdrawals

2007-12-24 17:43:52 by Mike N

Also what would be the correct dosage when switching from 60mg oxycontin to methadone. The docs put me on 30mg & that was ok for about the first month. I'm thinking either 60 which would be 2 three times a day or 40 one four times a day.

Hello there. I would like to tell you how sorry I am that you are in so much pain. I also take Methadone for pain and was switched to it after oxycontin no longer helped. I take such high doses that they thought the liquid might be better for me. That stuff tasted so gross that I could not handle it so they put me back on the pills. This leads me to believe that there is not alot of difference between the pills and the liquid form. (other than the taste!)
I take ten mgs tablets, 3 of them, twice a day. So that is 30mgs twice a day.
I do know that you can not compare mgs of one medication directly to another. In other words 4 mgs of one medication might be stronger than 20 mgs of another. It depends on the drug. Just because you needed 60 mgs of oxycontin does not mean that you would need that much methadone.
I have been on every pain medication that there is including plain old morphine and the methadone works best for me.
I really hope that you can resolve your problem.
I might mention one thing that has helped me. My pain management doctor has recently put me on Ultram, 50 mg tabs. I take two every time I take my methadone. It has really seemed to help. Ultram is non-narcotic but it is a strong pain medication none the less. Ask your doctor about the possibility of you taking that in conjunction with your methadone. You might find the combination helpful.
Take care of yourself and I hope you can get to feeling better.
Love and Blessings
Lady T~

2006-10-27 06:31:14 by ChaliQ