Drug Methadone

Methadone Detox: Eureka doctor pleads no contest; Frances Day’s medical future in doubt – San Jose Mercury News
The filing also alleges Day prescribed to a patient she knew to be an addict. In another, she allegedly prescribed methadone to a patient who had been released from detox just a few weeks earlier, without having the patient evaluated by a psychiatrist or …
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Methadone Detox: How to Understand The dangers of Methadone with Dr Rodriquez and Delray Center

The dangers of Methadone “So lets talk about the dangers of methadone. Methadone is a medication that carries of a lot of urban legend, a lot of phulpur, and a lot of mixed public opinion. Some of the real facts about Methadone is that yes it is an effective treatment for heroin and opioid dependence. It is also an effective pain medication and coming off of Methadone in terms of withdrawal is more difficult then regular opiates. However, what is little known about Methadone is that it is extremely dangerous in overdose. Much more so then pretty much any other opiate out there. The problem with Methadone is that it can kill you two different ways. both of which usually accidentally. The first is by simple overdose, just taking too much. The problem with methadone is that its hard to gauge how much is too much. Somebody and a very large amount of heroin or oxycodone, a very large amount might think wow I can take a large amount of Methadone also I am very tolerant, and usually that’s true. However, rather often its not true. And a person will experience a rather sensitive response to Methadone. Where a small dose will suppress the original symptoms and a slightly larger dose that is still overall pretty small will cause them to overdose and possibly die without medical attention. That is one of the main problems with Methadone. Is that and that tendency is rather unpredictable and it’s different from person to person and within the same person its different from one year …

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