Methadone No No No!!!!! (Page 5) (Top voted first)

Methadone is the worst drug and most wicked drug in this entire world. They give it to people like me with pill problems and then you can never get off the stuff. I made the worst mistake of my life going into a Methadone program. The people at these places pretend like they are there for you but they are not. They are there to keep you on this drug that rots away at your mind and body, and they do it well. They want your money. Do you know how cheap liquid methadone is? They milk off your addiction and act like they are doing something good for people like me. I HATE Methadone. I hate what it's doing to me and I HATE that I came in this place for a pill addiction four years ago, at 22, told I had one year and I would be weened off and here I am. I fight with these people all the time about this but they come up with a million excuses for why I should STILL be on this crap. It is going to kill me, just like the other pills, maybe just slower and more agonizing.

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Re: Russ (# 82)

I’m sure methadone is great while you are taking it, yes most people are pretty happy with a steady flow of opiates in their body.

The post that you are replying to originally is talking about coming off of the medication. I mean if your goal was to switch one addiction for a safer one that you just use forever then yes you are fine and you don’t have to worry about it.

Also it’s probably easier to come off these meds than it is to come off intravenous heroin use, but the original post is talking about switching it for pain pills. Don’t do that it’s a terrible idea you are going to extend your withdrawals by weeks.

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Re: KZ (# 80)

See that’s why else when I had to quit pain pills I slowly reduced my intake for a month, then I quit and I was done in a week. I started feeling significantly better after the fourth day but after a week I was totally fine.

When I had to quit taking pain pills 10 years before that I mistakenly thought that Suboxone with me and I never had withdrawals, so I switched that and I slowly weaned down over six months like my doctor had told me to, when I went off at the withdrawls lasted for weeks. Weeks. It took like a month to feel normal again. That’s why I didn’t use it again, it’s not worth it, it’s only good if you’re having cravings and you need to get rid of the cravings or if you need to wait and have withdrawals at a different time. Like if you have a job you can’t take time off now for example, just know you are extending your withdrawals by about four times as long as they need to be by doing it this way.

But if you plan to stay on it forever I’m sure it’s great you get your fix covered by insurance. I understand why people would love that.

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No worry, methadone is not so bad. Benzodiazepines are the worst pills ever, no have worst thing as them, I would rather come off 5 times off 100ml of methadone than from 10mg of 30mg of benzo. I've been in coma by trying get off them. Methadone, if u taper, is very very possible. I've been on 130ml and in 3 months im down to 80ml with not even a headache. If u taper right then it is no problem. I was able to work 12 hour shifts with cold turkey. It depends how strong of a will you've got. In jail also on 100ml, was not given any for 4 weeks. I could already go another 3 and be off, but cos there's nothing to do there n was still craving I decided to take the easy way. Set your mindset that it's the end or something, if you want to really do it right. 1 year and you're clean, depending on how many ml u r on. If 50, like I said, I did cold turkey from 45ml and 12 hour shifts. You said that ur young in your twenties. That is a good time as ur health is very good. I mean I'm nearly 40, n I started using when I was 14, so I've been through so much pain omg. So someone can't stop smoking, im like whaat? Kiddin themselves - last 3 cigs, next monday - no, no, that's an excuse. If u do it, do it right now n here. My advice to everyone, never ever try poison, specially benzos. And remember, everything is possible, absolutely. Get to rehab, find your way, and do it slowly n u will be surprised how turned up in your head you've been. Everything is in our head. About 70% fear and anxiety. You'll be fine buddy, trust me.

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Yeah it helps some people and hurts some but it's not a bad drug

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Re: Pat (# 5)

Yeah, anyone who says it is a bad drug is a f****n moron.

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I have been on methadone for like 5 months i stopped going friday b/c the money got tight i was spending to much money on gas and going over there, i was on 20mg and i quit oh well its been almost 48hrs nothing i dunno, i missed one time and thought i was gonna die for 1 day its all in your head i believe. at the place i go to they dont have no charging system or whatever if you dont pay you dont get anything there is no charging lol, 11.00 for liquid 10.00 for gas is like 20.00 a day x(times) 30 is $600.00 a month, im glad im not being a slave to the drug anymore methadone is more addicting then methemphetamine.

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Greetings Pat, what a nice surprise getting your post. Yes, I think I've finally found a good website with good people that I can relate too on here. Knowing your age helped too as yes, we've been around a bit longer then a lot of these guys.. I was so stupid getting on the subtutext not really knowing what I was getting myself into. I have 15 pills left and feel fairly good when I take one but not high or anything, just normal and not sick! Which is huge since I have to go to work everyday!. But then to find out that they are also addictive! Geez, does it ever end! I suppose the subutext is better then the oxys. I should say FOR SURE IS BETTER THEN THE OXYS! But you are right that I need to taper off of them and will start doing so right away. Thanks for your support as it means the world to me. I'm telling you, some times, most of the time.,you feel so alone when you are doing the drugs. Like T?G, i had plenty of invites but just wanted to stay home alone in bed and eat cerele. When my sis gets here from Cal Jan 18th and finds out that I went through $10,000 in 7 mo I'll never hear the end of it. She is not an addict and does not understand at all! She's really the one that told me that I needed to get off the methadone b/c I couldn't afford it any longer but I shouldn't have listenend to her and gone with my gut feeling that I wasn't ready. The clinic may have worked with me since I'd been on it so long there. but I didn't even try. Just did it on my own. So honestly, it was my own fault for the W/D i went through. MY sis wouldn't let me get anything from the dr for sleep etc. she is just a control freak and thinks she knows the best for me and for everyone! I know she loves me but I have to toughen up when it comes to her and not let her control me when she gets here or I'll be back depressed and God only knows what will happen. No, I just realized what I wrote when I said that! I am going to be strong and stay off of everything as soon as I get off the subutext and get back into my church where I have a foundation and friends! Ok kiddo, gotta get to bed. Again, thank you for your sweet post. You hang in there too. Did I read that it was you having a baby or someone else. I'm still new to this and can't remember everything I read from one person to another! But now I know you for sure and i am glad! God Bless you and KEEP LOOKING UP^ GRACIE

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Methadone Hydrochloride, invented by the Nazis near the end of WW2 is the BEST EVER drug on this Earth! I have had this from my Swedish Pain Klinik and now UK for 37yrs. 230mg Physeptone (Methadone + Chloroform), 21 times stronger than Morphine and 2 times stronger than Methadone Hydrochloride. I had to take a suitcase of Martinedale bottles after the chemists were stopped from making it up from powder form and concentrating it. So 185mg/day and 100micg Fentanyl works perfectly. It's the only powerful pain killer that releases the entire does after 47 mins in my case. That means 185mg constantly killing pain non stop for at least 36hrs. No miosis after constant use, no euphoria after initial dose titration of 3 days, and no one can tell you are on it especially at work (Art Direktör), as no need to carry tablets or other forms of oral administration. Very few side effects. High dose could give gallvägsdyskinesi, gallstones? The only authoritive effects, to put doses down to drug addicts (illegal), is the Widmark paper on abnormal ECG heart fluctuations. This is controversial, in combination with other meds it could be any of the others. It's just an excuse to not give maintenance doses to drug addicts. Sweden has the only functioning Methadone program in the world. Life time high dose. Only the patient decides whether to stop, unless a positive test is left after the first 5 yrs of strict control. Methadone has the highest biological analgesic qualities than any other powerful medicine. 80%. Of course due to individual constitutions of the diverse users this analgesic quality has to be spread, 40-100%. No other pain killer can match this. Under the same reasoning the half life is put, after research, to 15-57 hours. 50% goes out in the urine of the rest and for lack of the English word the N-denetylerade pyrrolidinmetabolen (other deletion of the Methadone), 10-45 % is through faeces, feces.. How you can say this is the worst drug in the world ask someone due lie you down and smash your spine with a sledgehammer. Then post a reasonable message as to why it is the worst. Used correctly it is without doubt the greatest drug ever invented.

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People like this are the reason methadone is still as stigmatized as it is. The truth is methadone saves people's lives for real real. I came into the clinic while I was homeless. Now I am healthier and happier with a girlfriend and an apartment and best of all my parents and sibling and I are closer than we've ever been now that I'm off of heroin. We all have to make a choice, choose life.

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Beki, I read your post about remembering what it was like b4 getting on the methadone and it no doubt saved my life and made me a normal person or as normal as i could be!. the things i was doing to get heroin i am not proud of . i think another thing that helped me was wanting to get those take homes and after a year of clean urines was able to take a months worth home for the 18yrs i was on it. when i had to come in to get it each mo. they would do the urine test and that helped to keep me off of anything. i also think having to be accountable to something and have clean urines so i didn't have to go to that place everyday and run into old friends etc helped a lot. bottom line. the detox sucked big time but in the long run i had the best 18 yrs of my life. was here and able to take care of my mom while she was sick and died and also for just having the 18 yrs with her and holding down a job at my church and as a normal person and not running the streets, stealing etc Methadone saved my life. i remember saying while i was on the clinici'll never go back to street drugs but after 10 days of the worst days of my life durning the detox then turning to oxycotin b/c i didn't want to be sick anymore, which while i was on the clinic never even knew anyone on it or knew anything about oxycotin..feeling like i was going to die from the w/d, i found someone and now am trying to make it back to sanity! anyway, any time i think the clinic was bad for me b/c of the W/D, I'll remember where I was b4 it and know it saved my life. KEEP LOOKING UP^

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