Opiate/Heroin Addicts Only: Has Methadone Worked for You?
Question by AngE: Opiate/Heroin Addicts Only: Has methadone worked for you?
Don’t want other’s crappy opinions about methadone. I’ve heard it all. I want to hear from addicts who have tried MMT and hear about their results.
Clarification: Even if you had a bad result in MMT, would like to hear this. I don’t want info from non-addicts who have never taken it.
Best answer:
Answer by Scott
they took me off my pain treatment medications and methadone you don’t get highs off it but it keeps you from going into withdrawals
Answer by Tang
It does the trick, though at a cost. I’ve had both methadone and suboxone, and suboxone worked better for me. A lot of that had to do with I’d rather go to a doctor once a month than a clinic 5 days a week. But some people don’t like sub because it’s only a partial agonist, and they don’t feel like it “holds” them as well as methadone does.
But there is a reason they call methadone “liquid handcuffs.” It’s a BITCH to get off of, I mean really seriously, it was the hardest kick of my life, even worse than morphine/heroin, oxycontin, or hydromorphone.
If you’re up against a wall, and your only options are MMT or cold turkey, then go with methadone. It works, it will keep you well. It made me very lazy though, with a massive sweet tooth. Before I knew it, I had packed on 50 pounds in my first 9 months on methadone. Suboxone wasn’t quite as bad, but that stuff made me incredibly anti-social, I couldn’t stand being around other people while I was on it. But everyone reacts differently.
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