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November 11, 2007

Methadone Addiction Can Be Overcome – Try Methadone Detox

Filed under: drug detox, heroin addiction, methadone addiction, methadone detox — Rod Malcolm @ 9:31 pm

Many people who started taking methadone as ‘treatment’ for heroin addiction have been on methadone for years. They came for treatment so they could end their addiction and, instead, they were given methadone – and now they’re suffering from methadone addiction. What a trade off! But, you can do something about it.

Methadone detox is now getting people the help they need. Here’s what one Novus Medical Detox Center client had to say:

“I gained 10+ pounds here. The place is very clean and nice. The rooms are comfortable. I’ve stayed all over the world and the rooms here are just as nice.

“When I came here I couldn’t imagine waking and not having my drugs. While I was here it finally opened my eyes and got me to realize that you don’t need drugs to live life and have fun.

“I feel better than I have ever felt in my life. It feels like there was a huge blinder lifted and I can see so clearly now. I just can’t believe how much this place has helped me. This place is amazing and I would recommend it to anybody that has a drug problem! I can’t wait to get my life back together. If I can get off drugs then anyone can!!”

If you or someone you care about has a problem with methadone addiction, contact Novus about doing a medical drug detox program. Once you get off methadone, you may feel better than you’ve ever felt, too.

November 3, 2007

Is Methadone Addiction What You Wanted When You Decided to Quit Drugs?

Filed under: drug addiction, drug detox, drug rehab, methadone addiction, methadone detox — Rod Malcolm @ 3:16 pm

Several new sites are opening in Vermont to dispense methadone to people who are addicted to or dependent on opiate and opioid drugs such as heroin and OxyContin. The sites are called ‘medicine dispensing sites’: people who want to get off drugs come to the sites and, instead of being put through detox and rehab, they’re given a ‘medicine’ and they are just transferring from one addiction to another. In the end, they’ll need methadone detox.

Methadone addiction is possibly the most difficult drug from which to detox. Why go through that when you can just do a medical drug detox to get off the heroin or OxyContin in the first place?

If you or someone you care about wants to get off drugs, don’t just go to a methadone clinic – go to a medical drug detox center that can help you through withdrawal and then go to a drug rehab center that can help you address the issues behind your drug addiction so you can be drug free.

There is almost twice the number of deaths from methadone than from heroin every year.  If you’re on methadone now, get help with a medical methadone detox. And if you’re considering methadone treatment, think twice. Don’t just trade one addiction for another.

October 19, 2007

Drug Detox Now a Reward for Addicts’ Good Behavior, Unless You’d Prefer Extra Drugs

Filed under: drug detox, heroin addiction, heroin detox, methadone addiction, methadone detox — Rod Malcolm @ 2:45 pm

I just read a remarkable news item about heroin addicts in England receiving rewards when they test clean for crack and cocaine. The addict, who now has a methadone addiction instead of a heroin addiction, turns up at the methadone clinic for a drug test and if he passes his urine test for cocaine and crack, can get one of several rewards – extra methadone, shopping coupons, anti-depressants and, if they’re lucky, access to a drug detox program.

I don’t know what outrages me about this more: the fact that they went to a methadone treatment clinic to get off heroin and were given another addictive drug, methadone, instead; the fact that getting extra methadone as a reward digs them further into the hole they’re already in; the fact that their given other dangerous drugs – antidepressants – as a reward for good behavior; or the fact that drug detox is withheld from them in the first place.

What kind of game is this? Here’s how I see it – heroin addict goes to clinic to get off heroin, instead of being given the chance to do that through drug detox and rehab his addiction is intentionally prolonged by being given a different additive drug, then he’s told that if he can stop himself from taking drugs other than the new addictive drug he’s been given, he may be allowed to get off drugs. Or, he may be put on another dangerous drug – an antidepressant.

Seems like the best these methadone clinics have to offer someone who comes to them to get off heroin is addiction to methadone and discount coupons for some new clothes. What a deal.

I’ve heard some pretty crazy ideas in my time, but I think this one takes the cake. What’s the icing? England spends $1 billion on methadone clinics when the money could be invested in drug detox and rehab centers that could actually get heroin addicts off drugs.

October 2, 2007

Methadone Detox is Possible: You Don’t Have to Stay on it Forever

Filed under: methadone addiction, methadone detox — Rod Malcolm @ 7:47 am

I received a comment on a methadone blog several days ago (which I just read tonight – sorry) from someone on methadone asking for help finding a methadone detox –Fortunately, I do know of some very good drug detox programs, and am going to refer her to them.

She said in her comment that she’s sure others are out there in the same boat. If so, I’d like to hear from you. There are more methadone-related deaths than deaths related to heroin – which is why there is a methadone victims support forum: a place for people whose friends or family members have died from methadone. Fortunately, if you’re reading this, methadone detox and drug rehab is still an option for you.

I’ve been through the methadone experience myself – not pleasant. I wanted to get off heroin and, instead, the methadone drove me straight back to drugs. Eventually, I did get off drugs – everything. That was a long time ago, and I did it cold turkey. There weren’t too many drug detox programs around. But, afterwards I did a very successful drug rehab program and I’ll tell you, it worked. Everything that could possibly cause relapse has happened to me over the years, but I’ve never relapsed, not once. And I didn’t get into any prescription drugs, alcohol, or other substitutes.

I’ve got a great, drug-free life now. There were times when no one would have believed it possible. Fortunately, there are now safe methadone detox programs that are considerably more comfortable than cold turkey. Let me know if you need help and I’ll hook you up with someone who can get you through it.

September 14, 2007

Methadone Addiction Isn’t Drug Detox or Rehab for Heroin

Filed under: drug detox, drug rehab, methadone addiction, methadone detox — Rod Malcolm @ 12:38 am

Heroin addicts around the world have traded their heroin habit for methadone. Now, instead of needing drug rehab, they need methadone detox for their methadone addiction. And, after that, they’ll probably need the drug rehab they never got when they originally asked for help with heroin.

Unfortunately, a lot of people think substituting methadone for heroin is acceptable. Obviously, they haven’t seen the statistics – many more people die from methadone than heroin. But, from some viewpoints, methadone has reduced heroin addiction. You could probably even find statistics ‘proving’ that heroin addiction is on the decline. But, really, it’s just swept under the rug. Like taking aspirin for a headache, methadone masks the problem. The headache’s still there, but the nerves are anesthetized so you don’t feel the pain. Similar to not feeling the pain of addiction when you don’t see addicts with needles in their arms in alleyways. But, they’re still there. And they’ll need methadone detox, and probably drug rehab, to really go away.

Trials have just been completed for another drug, Atomoxetine. This one was for cocaine addicts. Fortunately, it didn’t work. So, it’s currently being tested on marijuana. One test is on children, two others are on adults. If it works, we’ll probably need Atomoxetine detox.

Could it be that we’re losing the war on drugs because we haven’t really identified the enemy? If someone you care about is substituting methadone for heroin, get them into methadone detox and then into drug rehab. Don’t play into the enemy’s hands.

September 12, 2007

Methadone Detox Is The Right Move for Addicts Who Want Off Drugs

Filed under: drug rehab, methadone addiction, methadone detox — Rod Malcolm @ 1:43 pm

A flurry of articles appeared in the news today about a clinic in Indiana’s practice of giving addicts ‘take-home’ methadone doses. Apparently, lawmakers in Indiana have complained because the clinic draws heroin, morphine, OxyContin and other opiate addicts from other states – Kentucky and Ohio, for example – into Indiana. An Indiana county coroner also protested the practice: he’s already seen nine methadone overdose deaths in his county this year, and five of them involved methadone from clinics. The coroner also says that long-term doses give addicts and clinics little incentive to wean off the drugs – something that may require methadone detox and drug rehab.

The vp of operations for the company that owns the clinic says addicts aren’t drawn to the clinic from other states because of the long-term doses, rather it’s because other states have a two to three year waiting list to get into a methadone treatment. That certainly gives you an idea of the severity of the drug addiction problem. He also says the average patient stays on methadone for ‘only 18 months’. That may not seem like a long time him but for the addicts who came to his clinic for help, it means they now have a methadone addiction.

These clinics obviously have lines miles long of addicts needing drug detox and drug rehab. Instead of ensuring that more treatment centers are opened to get them off drugs, we start an entirely new industry – methadone clinics. The original idea with methadone was to ease the pain of withdrawal and then, in short order, wean the addicts off the methadone so they can be drug free. “Drug free’ should be the goal of methadone clinics, not ‘ever-increasing numbers of addicts who’ve switched to methadone instead of the drug they came in on’. As it is, owners/operators/employees of methadone clinics get rewarded for keeping people addicted. In fact, they’d lose their jobs and their livelihood if they actually accomplished their purpose. How’s that for a catch 22?”

Don’t fall for methadone treatment. If you or someone you care about wants to get off drugs, go to a drug detox or drug rehab center that doesn’t have a vested interest in keeping you hooked. And if you or someone you care about already has a methadone addiction, get them into methadone detox and on the road to recovery.

September 6, 2007

Drug Detox Q & A: How Many Doctors Do We Have To Bust? Who Cares? Keep Them Coming.

Filed under: Uncategorized, drug addiction, drug addiction help, drug detox, heroin addiction, methadone detox, prescription drug abuse, prescription drug addiction — Rod Malcolm @ 8:37 am

Without changes in the laws, getting prescription drug addiction under control is going to be a long haul. The good news is that yesterday I read an article about a doctor pushing addictive drugs being sentenced to 20 years, and today we have another little drug ring, again with a doctor, that may get the same sentence. If we keep knocking them down quickly – and educate the public so they’re more aware of the dangers of prescription drugs and why they need drug detox, not more drugs, we may actually be able to do something about the problem.

Today’s story involves a doctor, a cop and three others. The police officer and two others allegedly posed as patients, and they apparently recruited others to do the same, and got prescriptions from the doctor. Then they filled the prescriptions and sold the drugs. The doctor was part of the alleged scheme, which went on from 2002 to 2006.

The drugs included OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Dilaudid, Suboxone and Xanax and, apparently, methadone. Two patients died from methadone overdoses, and another was seriously injured. The article didn’t say if the patients were doing methadone treatment for heroin addiction.

The cop is also being charged with using controlled substances while on the job. Or, at least, while he was in possession of his weapon. He first faced charges in May of this year and has been suspended without pay since that time.

So, we have a doc gone bad, and a cop. The cop obviously has a drug problem of his own. Maybe if he’d gotten into a good drug detox program and handled his own habit, he would have been the arresting officer in this case instead of the criminal.

September 4, 2007

Methadone Treatment: Really – It’s Just Another Drug, It’s Not Treatment

Filed under: drug addiction treatment, drug detox, heroin addiction, methadone addiction, methadone detox — Rod Malcolm @ 9:46 am

Yet another step in the wrong direction in the war against drugs – Copenhagen is setting up safe ‘health rooms’ where addicts can inject their medically prescribed methadone. 275 people in Copenhagen died of drug related causes in 2005 and health officials see ‘health rooms’ as the first step in addressing the problem. Unfortunately, there was no mention of actually getting the addicts drug free through methadone detox or rehab.

Perhaps they don’t know the statistics. Do they know, for example, that 1,881 people died from heroin in the U.S. in 2004 and 3,849 people died from methadone in the same year? We don’t know how many methadone users there are, but we do know about 200,000 are in ‘methadone treatment’. And there are about 800,000 heroin addicts.

Maybe officials in Copenhagen are going to improve the scene with ‘health rooms’, but it’s still just a jump from the fire to the frying pan. Not much better.

Why not just get them off drugs for crying out loud? It can be done. Millions of people have done it. Why mess around with a solution that just becomes another problem? It amazes me that intelligent people concerned about drug addiction think some drugs are okay.

Methadone addiction, heroin addiction – what’s the difference? Really? What are they thinking? If they were really serious about handling the drug problem, they’d get these people into a methadone detox program and finish the job.

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