Drug Methadone

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Staying clean – The Star Online

Staying clean The Star Online Patients seeking to recover are sometimes prescribed methadone, a synthetic narcotic taken once a day “to stop withdrawal symptoms and reduce opiate cravings”. Some patients are put on suboxone to help their recovery. CHC is treating more than 400 …

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Despite Barriers, Addicted Moms-To-Be Are Finding Help
Even though the majority of substance-dependent women seek help when they become pregnant, both the illicit drugs and those used for treatment can cause withdrawal symptoms in newborns. Last August, Leslie Thorsen wrote a letter to Governor Peter …
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The Disturbing Side Effect Of Ambien, The No. 1 Prescription Sleep Aid
Although the Ambien prescribing information warned, in small print, that medications in the hypnotic class had occasional side effects including sleep walking, “abnormal thinking,” and “strange behavior,” these behaviors were listed as extremely rare …
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Staying clean
Patients seeking to recover are sometimes prescribed methadone, a synthetic narcotic taken once a day “to stop withdrawal symptoms and reduce opiate cravings”. Some patients are … But addiction is really a side effect to something else.” Many …
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Key changes to help tackle Dundee’s drug problem – Evening Telegraph

Key changes to help tackle Dundee's drug problem Evening Telegraph “If people come because they need a chat then they will get it, but if what they need is more focused intervention, or even accessing methadone, then they can also do that there. “We have already started at the Cairn Centre and the other will be in a …

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Woman smashed screen in drug row – Derbyshire Times

Woman smashed screen in drug row Derbyshire Times A drug addict who was denied access to prescribed methadone at an NHS unit went berserk throwing desks and smashing a safety screen. Chesterfield magistrates' court heard last Monday how Lucy Brown, 29, of Hawthorne Street, Chesterfield, was told at …

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A Pained Life: Medication Jeopardy
“Methadone? No way. It's addicting,” I told him. But he assured me, “We often use it for chronic pain treatment. It is worth trying since nothing else has helped.” I was concerned about being able to get methadone when I returned home to New York City …
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Addicted Expectant Mothers on the Rise in Kentucky and Ohio
The babies are kept in the hospital even if they do not immediately show symptoms of withdrawal, and monitored for 48 to 72 hours. If withdrawal is occurring, DeFoor said, the infants are given methadone to ease the withdrawal symptoms and then …
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Swallowing the January fat scare
Over on the BBC, anguished reporters will offer cloying dispatches from the front line of the waistband wars: “Here on sugar trail from Newcastle, we saw first-hand the evidence of human misery. Jimmy is sullen and withdrawn. It has been four days …
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Question by Bob: I don”t understand how methadone helps heroin addicts? Could someone explain? I don’t understand.?

Best answer:

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...