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Open Question: Is Methadone a bad idea to use for opiate withdrawals?
I’m sure your thinking, “No, thats what methadone is for dummy”. I have been a opiate abuser for 6 years now. I never tried heroine, something my mother or a DARE counselor had once told me apparently worked because just the word “heroine” alone scares the crap out of me. Anyways, I got surgery in 2007 on my knee, before and after the surgery they prescribed me percocets. The recovery took longer than normal, so I was prescrined them for about 6 months. Long story short, I fell in love with the feeling of opiates. I was also a cocaine addict at the time, so I was using the two together for a long time and it produced a powerful (and extremely dangerous) high. I quit using cocaine in 2011, no particular reason why, just one day I decided I didn’t want to do it anymore. My nose was falling off my face and I had been in and out of jail twice, so I stopped. I didn’t stop taking percocets, roxycets, oxy’s, or anything else that I could get my hands on. i was doctor shopping, buying off the streets, having friends give them to me etc. My new years resolution this year was to stop, so I have tried going cold turkey twice–and it didn’t work. The physical pain, sweats, chills, aches, I could deal with. It was annoying as sh** but it was tolerable, I kept telling myself “I just have the flu, I just have the flu, this will pass.” What I couldn’t deal with was the mental part of the withdrawals. The severe depression, the fogginess, the confusion, the blahhhh….. Anyone who’s experienced this knows exactly what I’m talking about. I felt like I was disassociated with myself and my world around me. I already have a severe case of bipolar and depression, so I didn’t need to add on top of it. Monday morning I went to the methadone clinic and got an intake evaluation. They started me off on 30 mg daily, a single dose that I have to go there everyday and take. The first day I puked four hours later but felt amazing the rest of the day, second day I was a bit more sick, and slept all day. Day three (Wed) I couldn’t stop throwing up all day and night, couldn’t get out of bed, realized I hadn’t eaten since Sunday so I decided to skip my Thursday dose and stay home instead. I felt fine except I woke up with severe pain in my back and legs and was craving the pain pills, I hadn’t had a craving since sunday so I went in today (Fri) and they had already started lowering my dose, I am now on 25mg. What I am trying to ask is, has anyone ever been on the 30 day methadone detox? Am I taking too much? When the 30 days comes around am I going to be addicted to methadone? I just want to have ME back. I would do anything to just be me again.
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Readers Write (Feb. 22): Monsanto, Legacy funds, addiction, Gedney pickles – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Readers Write (Feb. 22): Monsanto, Legacy funds, addiction, Gedney pickles Minneapolis Star Tribune When the court system placed me in the methadone program, my life was out of control. I did experience some harm reduction at first. My job and family situation did stabilize. However, I also experienced many of the common side effects of methadone … and more »

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Open Question: Looking For Advice on CPS!!?
To start I live in Fredericton New-Brunswick Canada had to put that out there cause I’m hoping to get some responses from people that live in or around my area, or at least New-Brunswick only because I need accurate information on Child Protection Services! Ok They got involved with me 16 months ago when there was a report made that I was using pills, I didn’t deny it and I went for the drug test on Oct 27 2012, on Nov 4th I started Methadone, I have never not once had a dirty test, and I was tested anywhere from 1-3 times weekly and am still being randomly tested through my Methadone program, problem is it’s 16 months later and the social worker and parent aide are visiting once a week and there’s no signs of them closing my case I’ll be lucky to have them out of my face by the time my boy starts school in September,he’s started stuttering and he’s had sleep problems since he was an infant so dummy here gave him Melatonin for a week, when the social worker asked me I was honest and said yes I did give it to him, i’m very lucky they know me as well as they do or else she said she would have taken him into care Thursday when I told her about the Melatonin, she called the medical clinic and made an appointment with the nurse practitioner, and plans to attend the appointment with me I don’t understand this, is it not my right to say no? I want to call a lawyer I need to know my rights and what I can do to get these people out of my life I’m exhausted from all this BS they throw at me so if anyone has any suggestions or knows if a lawyer would talk to me then please please comment, I’m at the end of my rope and I’m starting to feel like they’re looking for a reason to take my son :(
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Methadone program believed best hope for opioid addict – Sault This Week

Methadone program believed best hope for opioid addict Sault This Week An advantage of methadone treatment for opioid addiction is that it does not produce the high, dos Reis said. “You can take a dose of the synthetic opioid that will kill the craving, and stop the withdrawal without the euphoria.” The program has good … and more »

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'Mother's little helper' helps land man in court
His solicitor, Fiona Sams, told Magistrate Peter Dare her client had been on a methadone program to assist him with opiate withdrawal and had the tablets for when the chemist wasn't opened on a Sunday. She said Monaghan had been intending to enter a …
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Youths steal methadone in home
Officers have issued an urgent warning, saying advice from health authorities suggests the dosage of stolen methadone – clinically used to treat opiate withdrawal symptoms – is potentially lethal. Officers are warning anyone who comes into contact with …
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County To Continue Jail Methadone Program – ABQ Journal

County To Continue Jail Methadone Program ABQ Journal Methadone treatment might be effective outside a jail setting, he said, but “with my population, it's different. … Even the methadone doesn't seem to work with them to change their behavior.” Furthermore, he said, the state Corrections Department … and more »

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Mrs Rausing, 48, had been dead for eight weeks after heart rate soared – Daily Mail

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Mrs Rausing, 48, had been dead for eight weeks after heart rate soared Daily Mail She said her billionaire brother and his wife were never likely to be imprisoned for their destructive habits and were given easy access to methadone and morphine by psychiatrists. Rich crack and heroin addicts are generally left alone if they have not … My brother, Hans Rausing, entered a world of addiction where no one in the end …The Guardian all 8 news articles »