Getting Normal
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Even on X-mas …damn!!! It takes years of perfect record to get monthlies in seattle..but it’s possible with? clean UA’s and NO mistakes!
It’s refreshing to hear something positive about MMT…most stuff on the net is bashing it!!!! Like anything else….it works if? u work it…Fuck judgmental idiots…like their lives are perfect….I love my methadone :>
Methadone is a lie quit? while u can.
couldn’t agree more! well said. if i was going to make a list, i would have listed all those things too. when you think about it – it’s quite amazing? what MMT makes possible.
i just commented on how stupid this one guy was talking out his ass on ppl like u. THIS IS REAL. u ve been there, done that and bought the t-shirt.? i admire u for chosing life. may God be with u
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Thanks a lot for your comments and I’m really glad you like the video. It’s also great to hear from other people who are happy and doing well on MMT – I hope that stories like yours help to improve methadone’s reputation in? the drug treatment world.
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Thanks a lot for? your comments and I’m really glad you like the video. It’s also great to hear from other people who are happy and doing well on MMT – I hope that stories like yours help to improve methadone’s reputation in the drug treatment world.
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Thanks a lot for your comments and I’m really glad you like the video. It’s also great to hear from other people who are happy and doing? well on MMT – I hope that stories like yours help to improve methadone’s reputation in the drug treatment world.
Absolutely FANTASTIC video- ive been on MMT for 6 years- thankyou for a lucid presententation of the many, many people helped by MMT. You people are exactly like me-? this is such a great mini-documentary!!! Awesome!!!
It’s great seeing someone with POSITIVE information on the Methadone Maintence Program. My husband and I have been on? the program here in New Brunswick, Canada for almost 2 years. It’s given us our lives back. We LIVE life now, instead of existing. Keep it up!!
Im glad it is working for you ive been on it. Suboxone is? alot better if you find a good doctor that isnt rapping there pacnts for money.
Hi Mikeandcooper.? Although some people can detox off of opiates and eventually return to normal, most cant – either due to having damaged endorphines by using opiates, or having never had enough to begin with. That’s why maintenence is the prefered method with methadone or Sub – people who get off usually relapse, or just endure what then gets classified as depression, insomnia, ect. Not to say no one successfullty tapers, but most don’t.
i see your point. its working for you. what was the comment 3 moinths ago about. you said u must be living in canada and you apologize. just wondering what was that about. are you on suboxone now? or the done??
hiya. i see what yer saying? about yourself being on an opiate substitute for life otherwise you wont function. but wouldnt you function again once you got thru detox and withdrawal. wouldnt you return back to the way you were before opiates?
yeah but methadon? abstinence is one month and longer,i get off in prison it takes 4 mounth to be a person like i was before i use opiats mtd heroin eccc.
Western? Australia.. 33 years .. daily …
No doubt about it – the less a clinic imposes on their patient’s lives, the better. By refusing patients takehomes and using other forms of? control like dose caps, callbacks, ect. the clinics just push people who would benefit out of treatment and further stigmatize the medication. As good as MMT has been for me, I’d have a whole different take if I had to go every day for the last 5 years.
Yep, I do agree that legal heroin should be an option and I’m pretty much against prohibition in general. I’m not? sure if I’d use it as a maintenence med personally (though I’d probably do it recreationally here and there), just cause I think the shorter half-life would be less convienent, but I absolutely think it should be available for anyone who wants it.
Monthlies?!! woah man, no wonder you think methadone rocks! I even have to go in on christmas day!! And the doctors blame? the system on our affiliation with America and the “War on Drugs”!
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly, but wouldn’t it be better if we got legal heroin as an option aswell? instead of just really long half-life meds like mehadone and buprenorphine that take? forever to get off!?
I also should point out, that beyond the legality – other differences include not ever being junksick, having a bank account, job, house, life, ect. Not waiting all day on a dealer or risking life, limb, and jail in the neighborhood. Not OD’ing,? getting HIV/AIDS/Hep C. No track marks, abcesses, cotton fever. Having food in the fridge, not commiting crimes everyday, having friends/ family/ free time. ability to travel, hold a job, go to school. Those are enough differences to convince me.
Yeah – both my wife and myself get monthlies, which obviously makes the system alot easier to deal with. We have problems with clinics here too, but luckily in Chicago, they’re pretty cool. I have no doubt that with appropriate reforms to the clinic system – the medication can accomplish even more than it already? is doing. Good luck to you.
Hi Andrew + thanks for your comments- First off, I guess I’d say that that the legality of Methadone? is a huge aspect of it’s ability to allow patients to live a stable life. However, you seem to be confusing dependence with addiction – addiction involves significant disorder and negative circumstances, not simply tolerance /wd that develops when anyone takes opiates. You also seem to be assuming that MMT is simply a route to abstinance – many view it as a maintnce med like Insulin 4 diabetic.
The ONLY difference is that you are getting a LEGAL drug! In fact you are now way more physically addicted than you were on heroin! Heroin withdrawal may be more intense but it is over? within a week or two. Methadone withdrawal won’t even peak till about the 3rd week of abstinence! overall you will suffer intense withdrawals with NO sleep for around 7 weeks! And then it may be 18 months or more before you feel normal, even with lots of excercise and proper diet etc.
I see quite a lot of take-home doses in your fridge! Here in Western Australia I have had no take home doses except for public holidays? for several years now! Even though I’ve been unable to free myself of Subutex or Methadone maintanence for 33 years!!! I became suicidal when they made me go back on methadone after being on subutex for 6 years. It happened because I was trying to save enough sub to go on holiday by sneaking some out i.e., diverting! the only way to get doses while camping!!!