Methadone Clinics: Methadone Detox Facts

Question: Methadone clinics... is anyone seeing what i'm seeing here?

(Posted by: John Madden on 2009-09-03 19:40:47)

Why the hell are these clinics an acceptable way to get people off of heroin? This drug has worse withdrawal symptoms than heroin that can last a very very long time. We shouldn't be getting people off drugs by putting them on different kinds of drugs. It is terrible what these clinics do to people, it just looks like a scam to me. They don't care about the health of the recovering addicts, they clearly just want money. I really feel bad for the people that have fallen into the trap that these clinics are. It's no doubt that a heroin addict is going to get addicted to methadone when they go there. If they're going to get addicted to heroin, they're going to get addicted to it's substitute as well. So can somebody tell me why these places are legal and accepted? Am I missing something here? "You can call me God ": Addicts are NOT content on being addicts. You clearly do not understand how an addiction works. They would want more than anything to get off but their bodies and minds try their hardest to keep them on it through withdrawal symptoms. Meth is a bit different than heroin. The thing with meth and cocaine is that users just think they don't have a problem and that it is a perfectly acceptable way of living life. Once they realize they have a problem or are forced to quit by their family it's not as hard on the body as quitting heroin or methadone. With heroin or methadone you can want to quit really badly but the physical withdrawal symptoms are way too much to bear. With meth it's much more mental than physical. Sure, there are plenty of junkies that want to continue being junkies. But once they realize they have a problem via family or just by themselves, it's just terrible that this is what they are lead to most of the time. A lot of them just don't know what they are getting themselves into. I know it's a physical addiction too. It's just that compared to heroin the physical addiction to meth isn't shit. It's pretty sad that you don't have sympathy for people who have done the same things you have.

Posted by: S on 2009-09-03, 19:46:31

A lot of people are just addicted to being addicted to something and I think the government realized this and started putting up safe sites for the heroin users to switch to a drug that is not bought from shady drug dealers causing violence and murder on the streets. And these people aren't throwing the diseased byproduct of their addiction anywhere. I completely understand how you feel, but I also understand the idea behind it. These people aren't going to get better, and their existence isn't healthy for the environment they live in. It's better for the people who are NOT addicted to heroin for these clinics to be set up. I don't think they're thinking of the heroin addicts at all, more of the health of the community.

Posted by: Chris on 2009-09-03, 19:43:41

They are not breaking the law

Posted by: David T on 2009-09-03, 19:44:38

Because methadone is taxable

Posted by: Kellie R on 2009-09-03, 19:47:03

Because they are a money machine for pharmaceutical companies. a doctor put my mother on methadone and she eventually got 180 cc of it a day that is enough to put down an elephant. if people stop using it completely they can die. and the with drawls are worse then coming off of heroin or pills.. I dont know. but i do know that i am Lucky to still have a mother it took her 7 years to whine herself off it and she almost died doing so. something should be done.

Posted by: You can call me God. on 2009-09-03, 20:01:06

I don't feel bad for them. They LIKE to be f*cked up. Most addicts are people who were forced to get help by there family in the first place and don't actually want any. If you don't believe me, do some research. Most drug addicts are perfectly content being drug addicts. Of course the addict is going to get addicted to the methadone. If these clinics didn't provide them with the option of taking methadone, do you think 3/ 4 of them would even be there? It's an easy way to get drugs, which is all an addict cares about. These places are accepted because from the outside looking in they appear to be doing good and genuinely try to rehabilitate people but in the end it's just another way for a business to profit at the expense of someone else. They don't give a flaming f*ck whether they actually help anyone or not as long as they get that check at the end of the month. This world is based around selfishness. JOHN MADDEN: I know how an addict thinks. I was addicted to methamphetamine for 3 years, and I would never have gotten off it if my family hadn't made me go to rehab. I have many friends from that time who are still on drugs and make no effort to get off of them. I never WANTED to stop, and that is how many people are. Hahahahaha. Meth is very much a physical addiction as well as mental. I am just going to stop here because it's becoming pretty obvious that you don't know what you're talking about. If a person gets addicted to heroin and has trouble getting off of it then TOUGH SH*T. Thats what drugs do to you. They f*ck your life up, it's no secret. I take full responsibility for my actions and I know I was an idiot for having ever put myself in that position. I wasn't running around asking people to feel sorry for me because I got myself addicted to a drug. People don't deserve sympathy for being stupid, and it makes me sick that people give it to them.