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How Easy Is It to Obtain a Prescription for Methadone?

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…

Best answer:

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.

Woman’s Case Shadows Methadone Deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Drug Methadone: Woman’s case shadows methadone deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Woman's case shadows methadone deaths
Pekin Daily Times
She's accused of selling the prescription drug methadone to an undercover agent last May 11. Wise, 38, of Pekin, wasn't arrested for that alleged sale until more than a month had passed. In that interim, according to testimony, a supply of the

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Drugs don’t work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed … – Scottish Daily Record

Drugs don't work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed
Scottish Daily Record
The Daily Record's exposure of Scotland's £36million methadone scandal seized the drugs reform agenda last year and forced a rethink on how the government deals with the devastating drug problem. A panel led by Chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns are

Woman’s Case Shadows Methadone Deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Drug Methadone: Woman’s case shadows methadone deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Woman's case shadows methadone deaths
Pekin Daily Times
She's accused of selling the prescription drug methadone to an undercover agent last May 11. Wise, 38, of Pekin, wasn't arrested for that alleged sale until more than a month had passed. In that interim, according to testimony, a supply of the

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Drugs don’t work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed … – Scottish Daily Record

Drugs don't work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed
Scottish Daily Record
The Daily Record's exposure of Scotland's £36million methadone scandal seized the drugs reform agenda last year and forced a rethink on how the government deals with the devastating drug problem. A panel led by Chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns are

Drug Methadone: Woman’s Case Shadows Methadone Deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Drug Methadone: Woman’s case shadows methadone deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Woman's case shadows methadone deaths
Pekin Daily Times
She's accused of selling the prescription drug methadone to an undercover agent last May 11. Wise, 38, of Pekin, wasn't arrested for that alleged sale until more than a month had passed. In that interim, according to testimony, a supply of the

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Drugs don’t work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed … – Scottish Daily Record

Drugs don't work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed
Scottish Daily Record
The Daily Record's exposure of Scotland's £36million methadone scandal seized the drugs reform agenda last year and forced a rethink on how the government deals with the devastating drug problem. A panel led by Chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns are

Drug Methadone: Woman’s Case Shadows Methadone Deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Drug Methadone: Woman’s case shadows methadone deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Woman's case shadows methadone deaths
Pekin Daily Times
She's accused of selling the prescription drug methadone to an undercover agent last May 11. Wise, 38, of Pekin, wasn't arrested for that alleged sale until more than a month had passed. In that interim, according to testimony, a supply of the

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Drugs don’t work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed … – Scottish Daily Record

Drugs don't work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed
Scottish Daily Record
The Daily Record's exposure of Scotland's £36million methadone scandal seized the drugs reform agenda last year and forced a rethink on how the government deals with the devastating drug problem. A panel led by Chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns are

Woman’s Case Shadows Methadone Deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Drug Methadone: Woman’s case shadows methadone deaths – Pekin Daily Times

Woman's case shadows methadone deaths
Pekin Daily Times
She's accused of selling the prescription drug methadone to an undercover agent last May 11. Wise, 38, of Pekin, wasn't arrested for that alleged sale until more than a month had passed. In that interim, according to testimony, a supply of the

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Drugs don’t work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed … – Scottish Daily Record

Drugs don't work: 200 Scots are addicted only to methadone which is supposed
Scottish Daily Record
The Daily Record's exposure of Scotland's £36million methadone scandal seized the drugs reform agenda last year and forced a rethink on how the government deals with the devastating drug problem. A panel led by Chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns are