Methadone Maintenance: Methadone Symptoms & Side Effects

Question: What is methadone maintenance?

(Posted by: stlkenny12 on 2007-06-12 05:23:31)

Posted by: zipper on 2007-06-12, 05:31:11

It is a way of stabilizing someone who is addicted to heroin or has severe pain problems that are resistant to other drugs. But some critics of methadone treatment believe that it represents substituting one drug for another. Such critics see no distinction between heroin as an illicit drug and methadone as a medication, which is used in conjunction with other treatment services. Research has proven the drug substituting assertion to be false. Heroin and methadone have completely different pharmacologic actions though they do act in the same way upon the same brain receptors as methadone is a synthetic opiate. Read more about it on wikipedia! en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Methadone_maintenance

Posted by: Christian Betty on 2007-06-12, 05:25:39

You take methadone under a doctor's supervision instead of heroin

Posted by: Pedro S on 2007-06-12, 05:26:22

Synthetic heroin...it is a pill or liquid and lasts 24 hrs....mostly used to kick H but the drug makers have been " pushing " it for pain....but...its time release and people take it and feel nothing at first...take more and OD.

Posted by: Injam on 2007-06-12, 05:26:58

Cleaning your lava lamp. Sorry I was thinking of methamphetamine

Posted by: Kevin on 2007-06-12, 05:27:28

Its used to detox of people who use heroin or narcotics like Oxycontin or Percocet. I used to be on it. Its a waste of time. Your just trading one thing for another. Just detox in a hospital and get some counseling.