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Addiction-treatment workers at Fitchburg forum: 'We can't afford to have it fail'
Dr. Lori DiLorenzo, lead physician of the Gardner community health center, address a state Senate panel at a public hearing held Monday at Mount Wachusett Community College on addiction treatment. SENTINEL … Program Director Traci Kasparian of the …
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Surrey man gets life in jail for mercy killing murder
During trial, Turcan's doctor testified that she was suffering from a variety of progressive illnesses, but that all her medical problems were treatable and manageable. … He then took an amount of methadone he thought would be enough to kill himself …
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Question by Bob: I don”t understand how methadone helps heroin addicts? Could someone explain? I don’t understand.?

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Answer by the_only_solorose
withdrawing from heroine can be fatal, while withdrawal from methadone is not. So the heroine addict is gradually changed over to methadone, and then safely weaned off of it.

Answer by surfjax32
Because it helps reduce the effects from withdraw from the heroin. Heroin withdraw can be fatal and very dangerous for a person to go through by supplmenting the addiction to that with methadone they can safely help the person withdraw from the herion. Here is some more info on why it was made and the make up of it also what is is used for I hope this helps you. Just as a side note most insurance companies will not cover this type of treatment.
Methadone/dolophine, was first synthesized in 1937 by German scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart at IG Farben (Hoechst-Am-Main, now part of Frankfurt, Germany) during their search for an analgesic that would be easier to use during surgery (and less potentially addictive, post-op) than morphine. Methadone is a Schedule II drug under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.[1]    Read more...

Question by dollface: Drugs help!!?
feel like my life is so boring when im not on any type of drug at all its horrible i smoke pot during the week everyday actually and then the major durgs come in on the weekend im only 17 and this is want i think about /look forward to ever weekend when im sobar all i think about is getting drugs
last weekend was the worst binge i have had yet i did methadone,pot,opium,shrooms,coke and vicodin all within the hour and was up on all the **** for 3 days and havnt felt completley normal since i dont know if i should be concerned about the way i have been feeling but even the next weekend knowing i still didnt feel all there i did some extacy weed and coke and i added to the feeling of being totally out of it what should i do i cant stop thinkin about getting ****** up all the time i even planned on doing it this weekend even tho i know i shouldnt i cant convince myself not to
please help me i dont want to go to rehab or anuthing i just wanna be able to have fun but be able to stop when i want and not have it control my whole life what should i do is my life being setup for failure?
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Question by : Seeking advice for a more effective painkiller?
I am approximately 4 months into treatment for a Herniated L5 disc. From what I’ve been told by my PCP after getting an MRI is that my disc is bulging directly into my S1 nerve root and leaking fluid on to it. which has been excruciatingly painful in both my lower back and all the way down my right leg. The pain is relentless, I am in pain just about 24 hours a day 7 days a weeks. There is a very small window in which my pain even slightly subsides and thats when I’m laying down with an icepack on my back. So of course I spend as much time as possible icing the spot looking for even slight relief. After my Dr got back the results of my MRI, she prescribed me 60 mg of methadone a day and up to 6 hydrocodone 7.5/325mg daily for “breakthrough pain”. Within 3 days I went back to her to tell her that the methadone was doing absolutely nothing to help with my pain and If I took 2 of the hydrocodone at a time they would give me barely 45 minutes of very very minimal relief. I explained to her that I did not want to be taking that many pills a day just for a very small amount of relief and suggested we try something different. This time she prescribed me Fentanyl patches 50 mcg and more hydrocodone. She explained to me that the Fentanyl patches would provide good pain relief for up to 72 hours, and so I would not need to use the hydrocodone as often even though it was barely doing anything but at the same time doing the most out of anything I had been prescribed. I am on my second Fentanyl patch at this point and up to this point it has done zero to releve any pain. To me it feels no different than if I had simply stuck a piece fo scotch tape to my skin. After it was first prescribed I did a good amount of research on the Fentanyl patch. Many people of the forums I read stated the patch simply did not stick to the skin very well, and in not properly adhering to the persons skin the patch virtually becomes ineffective. After reading up on these potential problems I made sure I was much more careful and thorough when applying the second patch. That was yesterday and I have still not gotten a minute of relief from this patch which is supposed to be very effective. I have Dr friend who is currently not praticing, he suggested I ask my PCP about Dilaudid. Doc told me Dilaudid is very strong and is not a long acting drug and she didn’t seem to keen on prescribing it. Does anyone know of any medications out there that would help me be more comfortable until I have my surgery which will hopefully help me put this whole nightmare behind me ???    Read more...

Methadone Clinics: Baltimore pastor to open methadone clinic in July – Carroll County Online
A Baltimore pastor says he plans to open the city’s first “open access” clinic that will hand out methadone to drug addicts. The Rev. Milton Williams said Thursday that he will open his Turning Point clinic on July 5 _ even without approval from state and …
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Methadone Clinics: Residents upset with methadone operation – Asbury Park Press
MIDDLETOWN — Residents who live near a newly-opened clinic that dispenses methadone to drug addicts are upset that township officials allowed it to operate. Some of the residents who live near the clinic, Middletown Medical, say they plan to hire an …
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