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by Jim Kouri - WASHINGTON, DC -- Methadone use has increased in pain management and drug replacement therapy for addicts despite hundreds of people dying each year from black market use.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s Drug Abuse Warning Network reported that more than 10,000 people turned up in emergency rooms after having abused methadone, which is double the number from just two years earlier.
Reported deaths from methadone abuse are rising in North Carolina, Florida, West Virginia, Maryland, Montana and Nevada while it has become the deadliest drug in Oregon according to state medical examiners. Meanwhile, profits for the drug’s manufacturer and dispensers have increased dramatically as well.
Methadone was developed by German chemists as a painkiller during World War II and has been widely used as drug replacement therapy to get addicts off heroin and other opiates. There are currently more than 1,200 facilities that dispense methadone to addicts, totaling approximately 200,000 patients. While methadone may not produce the same high as heroin or Oxycontin, it is more physically addictive and more difficult to withdraw from.
The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies (DATOS) issued a report on a multi-city study of status of patients before and after various types of treatment, including outpatient methadone treatment. Results of this study that was done in the 90’s show that there was actually a slight increase in heavy alcohol use and only a minimal decrease in the percentage of patients not being employed full-time and suicidal ideation.
Perhaps the most obviously overlooked flaw in this type of treatment is that the patients are still on drugs, and this cannot be considered rehabilitation.
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| rememberJP | Methadone Facts | 0 | Dec 14 2007, 9:36 PM EST by rememberJP | |
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In blind trials, users who were given both drugs orally were unable to distinguish between the effects heroin and methadone.
Withdrawal from heroin should be over after seven to ten days. Withdrawal from methadone though, can take up to a month or even longer. Many former heroin users have claimed that the horrors of heroin withdrawal were far less painful and difficult than withdrawal from methadone. Methadone is a synthetic drug. It was first invented in Germany during the Second World War by scientists who, having discovered pethidine some years earlier, were developing other similar compounds. The effects of methadone last longer than those of morphine-based drugs. Methadone's effects can last up to 24 hours. Deaths occur more frequently at the beginning of treatment in methadone programs; they are usually a cause of excessive doses (i.e. erroneously estimated tolerance). Methadone generally entails the entire spectrum of opioid side effects, including the development of tolerance and physical and psychological dependence. Individuals are as physically dependent on methadone as they were to heroin or other opiates, such as Oxycotin or Vicodin. The most common side effects of Methadone are: drowsiness; lightheadedness, weakness, euphoria, dry mouth, urinary retention, constipation, and slow or troubled breathing. Ironically, methadone used to control narcotic addiction is frequently encountered on the illicit market and has been associated with a number of overdose deaths. Methadone comes as tablets, dispersible tablets, liquid, and liquid concentrate. Methadone is one of the most difficult drugs to detox from since its effects are long-lasting and it is readily stored in the body's tissue. 10.9 pepole die every day from methadone 2 out of Hundred pepole Prescribed methadone die. |
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| rememberJP | A Fact To Remember | 4 | Dec 9 2007, 10:02 PM EST by melis11577 | |
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2 out 100 people percsibried methadone die .
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| rememberJP | Thanks to all remember jp suporters for helping to get the message out | 0 | Jul 26 2007, 9:29 PM EDT by rememberJP | |
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I still have a long way to go but with pepole helping me it give me the hope I need to go on.
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