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Question by TheseBlueEyesWillBreakYourHeart: How easy is it to obtain a prescription for Methadone?
I am not asking so that I can get some…
Someone dear to me has just passed away. He was a cocaine addict and experienced a lot of back pain. After he died I found out he had been taking Methadone for 3 days. He had more than 100 pills prescribed by his doctor. He basically just stopped breathing in his sleep and his heart failed. Why would his doctor prescribe him Methadone when a simple blood test would confirm he occasionally takes drugs? I thought patients on Methadone were monitored not handed hundreds of pills…

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Answer by hazaamohammed
Methadone could help cocaine addicts: study

Tom Spears
Canwest News Service
11.25.08

Methadone, adrugusedformanyyears to treat heroin addiction, also appears to work well against cocaine addiction, a new Canadian study suggests.    Read more...

Methadone And Drug Tests in the News

Methadone And Drug Tests: 'Y'all got your Daddy back'
At other programs, she says, “you could fail drug tests, and your punishment was that you couldn't go lay out at the pool that weekend.” Here, on top of the physical torment of withdrawal, she found herself being called out again and again — sometimes …
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Methadone And Drug Tests: Bloomfield Hills firm to get seed funds; matches patients, clinical trials
The plan called for the company to help speed up the slow pace of U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical trials by quickly matching patients in need of therapies with researchers in need of subjects. On Tuesday, the … In 1972, Goldner co-invented …
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Question by tgfann: Methadone use question ?
My sister has been acting very strange for about 2 years now, since she got together with her current boyfriend (who the WHOLE family HATES). She’s tired all the time, falls asleep talking to you even standing up! I know they boyfriend used to do heroin because we found old newspaper articles about him being arrested for possession … at least 3 times that we know of. The most recent was May 2006. And he went to jail for 8 months for that one.

Today, my sister’s son asked me what methadone is. He said mom and (her boyfriend) take it. Long story short … She’s not (and never has been) in any kind of drug program. He’s not either, as far as we know. So where do they get it from? Is this something you can buy “on the street”?    Read more...

Drug Tests Methadone in the News

Drug Tests Methadone: Researchers create heroin vaccine
It's still in testing but people in the Ozarks who have used or treated people who use the drug are already excited. Across Missouri … There are medications to treat heroin addicts that are already FDA approved but mostly they are other opiates like …
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Drug Tests Methadone: Llanelli heroin couple in bid to turn lives around for their children
… methadone, and added that the pair had a lot of love for their children. A probation service spokeswoman told magistrates that since they were given a drug rehabilitation order the pair had not committed any offences and had tested negatively for …
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Question by wdon1932: can concerta be mistaken for cocaine in a blood test?
My son was stopped for a traffic violation and could not pass the physicaltest. A blood test was positive for .008 cocaine. He is ADHD and takes concerta daily and has for a long time. I know for a fact that he doesn’t do cocaine for several reasons.

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Answer by versantly
no -you are in denial. get some counseling.

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Methadone And Drug Tests: 'We're no fools over abortion excuses'
Mr McCarthy said psychiatrists are "not naive" and come across many cases on a regular basis such as drug addicts threatening to kill themselves if they are not given methadone. He added: "If a woman comes to me and she's refused all other alternatives …
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Drug Tests Methadone in the News

Drug Tests Methadone: Heroin Addict Reached Bottom; Believes Life Spared to Warn Youth
RIO GRANDE – Paul Conway's life changed when he decided, on the spur of the moment, to walk away from methadone. Tired of being “just a number” at the Burleigh clinic where the drug is dispensed, the 28-year-old knew a living hell awaited him as he …
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Drug Tests Methadone: Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process
If you say I don't want any drug use, that means somebody who in the first trimester, you know, if they had a beer or two, you're not going to see them. I mean, I'm not sure that that's always the case, you're just going to …. GROSS: One mother who …
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