Methadone Addiction: Methadone Mother Named and Shamed
Methadone Addiction in the News
Methadone Addiction: Methadone mother named and shamed
OVER-THE-COUNTER methadone treatment programs have been defended as the most effective way to handle narcotic addiction by state health authorities.
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Methadone Addiction: Methadone being demonized by local media
This is a story from a Philadelphia news station about a methadone clinic and the availability of Methadone on the streets. The video shows nothing to prove any drug dealing. Most likely the transactions seen were the buying and selling of Bus tokens, that is why it was done so openly. The mother interviewed in the video is on a warpath against Methadone and will not accept the fact that he died as a result of his addiction. Methadone prevents the spread of aids, Hepatitis C and other diseases. It also saves the lives of thousands of people who are addicted to Heroin, Percocet, oxycontin, vicodin and other opioid drugs. The recent rise in Methadone deaths are NOT as a result of treatment clinics, but because doctors are hesitant to prescribe oxycontin and other short acting opiates due to the media campaign against them. Doctors are now prescribing Methadone it their place and the insurance companies love it because it’s so much cheaper than other pain killers. Police and DEA studies show that almost all of the Methadone available on the streets is in pill form which is never given to patients at clinics, instead they are diverted to the street from pain patients who can’t work and are living in poverty because of their pain and sell off a part of their prescription lured by the large sums of money the drugs command. This video also fails to mention that addicts attending clinics have to go to the clinic to get their dose 365 days a year until they have significant clean …
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@catfishgetter Suboxone also has that effect (false sense of well being)
I was on methadone for 4 years, I got on saboxone, all i have to say is The worst day i have had on saboxone is better than the best day i have had on methadone. Methadone and opiot drugs gives you a false sinsation that everything is ok. that is quoted from a doctors. Then i would take more or other drugs because i was clouded by methadone. I understand it cost a lot but look at what you spending now.
@christo930 yeah well unless you were one of the people standing out front it really doesnt matter…its safe to say all these handoffs arent bus tokens, especially the guy selling the half drank soda, thats all.
@funkymoneylove I don’t deny that there were drug sales going on at the clinic, I deny that anything caught on tape in this interview is a drug deal. Also, this girl was kicked off the clinic and an ax to grind.
@christo930 her exact words were “its kind of hard gettin clean when you walk out and theyre selling drugs right in your face…mostly pills and their takehome bottle.” oh, a different door, well a seperate exit would make it impossible to walk around the front of the building again right?
@funkymoneylove She didn’t say that any of the activity caught on tape was a drug deal. There is security right there. The pill dealing does go on, but it is much more discreet that that. There are video cameras everywhere and nobody walking out of the front door of this clinic (at the time of the taping) had Methadone on them. You must exit through a different door after being medicated, I know I worked there.
@christo930 are you naive or just stupid? the girl they interviewed just said thats what was goin on when she was there
@ryanb788 Also, something you can’t tell from this video is that there is a separate exit from the clinic that the patients have to exit from when they leave the medication booth. NOBODY walks out of that front door who has methadone on them. Also, take-home doses are only given to patients who have been drug/crime free for long periods of time. It takes about 1 year just to get the first one.
@christo930 I didn’t notice that thanks. I really doubt most people who would sell meds would be doing it right in front of the clinic, which doesn’t make sense to begin with. The clinic doesn’t dispense the methadone (at least all pain clinics I have seen) . If anything I would suspect if they did have the nerve to sell somewhere it would be in front of a pharmacy. The footage is hilarious though. Especially right in front of security. The media will do anything to make a story.
@ryanb788 There is not a single person here being caught selling methadone. If you look, they are doing these exchanges right in front of security. They are most likely selling bus tokens which was very common there at that time.
This kind of media coverage gives people who takes this kind of medication as prescribed for legitimate reasons a bad rap. It is disturbing that people sell these medications and/or abuses them. Just keep this in mind folks. Not all people who are prescribed pain killers are drug dealers or dope heads. I am glad that these clinics are cracking down on people who sell and abuse.
@dwrockerforlife I agree. The media tends to demonize Methadone but nearly all of the deaths are attributed to misuse of the drug, not use of it.
If taken as directed and not mixed w/other opiates it works great, I am sorry of your loss but he put that methodone to his own lips.
@crookshanks576 wrong wrong wrong….lived it ….did it and taken every variation of opiate sickness and suboxone used correctly works,period bro
get off methadone immediately ,get sick then get on suboxone,its a life saver and you can actually quit opiates for real…..methadone will never keep anybody clean.fact
Fuck Yall
pay attenction….before taking suboxone/subutex/buprenorfina must have passed/spent at least 36 hours from your last dose of any ather opiate last heroin oxycontin or others especially metadone if you don’t do so you will have a very severe withdrawl crisis of many hours pay much attencion when you’ve been at maintenance of metadone for several years
@brentcherie Are you a patient there?
Parkside is a great place!!!!
@crookshanks576 Suboxone does have fewer side effects. I know people who have to take stool softeners when on Methadone and nearly everyone gains weight.
@morphine30roxy Suboxone is an opiate too, honestly it is just as bad as methadone, the marketing reps for it new this thats why its more expensive, in the end your just getting ripped off
Im glad I got put on suboxone. Methadone is very dangerus. Fuck that shit..
@austinr420 The fact that you mixed it with other drugs doesn’t mean that it might be right for someone else. I hope you are doing well off the stuff.
being on methadone is no way to live…i was on the shit for almost 5 years and now i’ve been off for almost 6 months. it hasn’t been easy.
but when i look back on how i got on methadone and started mixing it with xanax and klonopin, that shit ruined my life.
trust me…there is a life after methadone. and it’s well worth living!
@QuashDemocrats i live in australia and we dont pay to see doctors.
suboxone cost $80 a month where i live.