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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...

Drug Testing For Methadone in the News

Drug Testing For Methadone: Bucks County teen tells of her road from heroin addict to prostitute
Smart and driven enough to skip a grade and graduate from New Hope-Solebury High School a year early in 2009, Guerrieri, now 20, says she never expected to become a full-fledged heroin addict. Or to become so desperate for the drug that she turned to …
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Drug Testing For Methadone: Expert warns over abortion reform
Anthony McCarthy said psychiatrists are "not naive" and that they see all sorts of cases on a regular basis, such as drug addicts threatening to kill themselves if they are not given methadone. "If some woman comes to me and she's refused all other …
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Drug Testing Methadone in the News

Drug Testing Methadone: Llanelli heroin couple in bid to turn lives around for their children
She said they were only on a small amount of heroin substitute, 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 …
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Drug Testing Methadone: Bristol tandem hit-and-run deaths: Banned driver high on drugs jailed for ten …
Tests showed Lovell had cocaine, morphine and methadone in his bloodstream when he crashed shortly before 4pm on January 28 in Hanham, Glos, where Ross and Clare lived. Nicky Lovell Jailed: Nicholas Lovell. Avon and Somerset Police. Loiuse Cox …
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Question by Matthew: Will other drugs appear on a THC urine test?
So I willingly submitted to weekly THC urine tests after being caught by my school so as to prove that I am not dependent on weed. When I went into the lab for the testing to be done the label said something like “THC somethingrather urine test”. Does that mean it’s only looking for THC or will other things appear as well?

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Answer by Hilda Middleton
They will also be testing for cocaine,opiums,and meth

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Methadone And Drug Testing: '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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Methadone And Drug Testing in the News

Methadone And Drug Testing: Treasured photos of friend who had died lost forever in laptop theft
… by the owner, added Mr Sapwell. David Murray, defending, said Giles had committed the theft to pay off a drug debt, but since being remanded in custody he has been testing negative for illegal drugs and has been reducing his Methadone prescription.
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Methadone And Drug Testing: '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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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...