Methadone: Dangerous?

Think about it, a life free from all drugs.That is what treatment should be about. Not pacifying the craving or delaying the inevitable. These people are sick and they are not making rational decisions based on their addiction to Oxycontin,heroin,morphine and whatever else that got them to turn to methadone for a treatment. Why not right? It stops the withdraw,it's legal, and a lot of times free. Sure what addict wouldn't want it. they want help.Many of these people i have seen do well on it but were getting doses as high as 150 mg..that's crazy! That's more than they were getting on the streets in drugs a day. Not only that but some of them have been on the program for 14 years one person told me. They feel as soon as they got off methadone they would go straight back to the drugs because they were afraid to become sick and go through the withdraw. And many of them did,sometimes multiple times. The half life of the methadone would be twice as long and twice as hard as their drug of choice caused them to. It has been misused and it's in my personal opinion that methadone should be used as an inpatient detox method only!

Besides people of dependence need to learn how to live a drug free dependant free lifestyle. Take it from somebody who has been there and experienced it. My mornings are clear now and my life is good even when things get rough.I had to learn the hard way and it turned out to be the best thing in my life...that's my independence and the mornings i get to spend without relying on any drugs at all. Methadone will ruin your life just as the drugs you think it's saving you from will. This is a better life.No nodding out, no more rotting teeth, no more dropping urine's like you are on probation or something.Tell me is it worth it.This isn't what you signed up for is it? Listen people there is no miracle drug for sobriety,you got to just suck it up and do it . Go through the withdraw,take the steps to change your life and take it back.Just think of what you can do with that extra hour and a half instead of spending it at "the clinic" getting your fix.Methadone is dangerous, I know. Any questions.