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Truth vs. Myth About Methadone Treatment

Medically supervised withdrawal, on the other hand, where the client is gradually decreased overtime under a doctor's supervision, can be relatively free of pain and discomfort.

I AM LIVING PROOF OF THIS. But it took that many years because I was being cautious, I was in norush to be off it completely, and I paused the decrease if I ever felt the slightest discomfort in orderto let my body adjust. For more information, visit methadone.org. In October 2011, I came off itcompletely after I got down to 1mg, which is the fda zofran birth defects way it's supposed to bedone, and I felt hardly no physical http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Zofran withdrawalsymptoms upon doing so.

If you or someone you know is struggling with an addition to heroin, OxyContin, Roxys, Percocet,Vicodin, Fentanyl, morphine or any other opiate, methadone is one of several treatment optionsworth looking into. I tried both Suboxone and Subutex, but was unsuccessful.

Because methadone has a longer half-life than heroin, withdrawal from it is slower and longer if onewas to stop taking it suddenly. I stabilized at 120mgs and after I had one year clean I starteddecreasing blindly (which meant having the nurses cross out my dose) and sloooooowly, and on myown time table--not anyone else's.

It took me eight years to get off it. My doctor, an addictions specialist with 17 years of experiencesaid to me, "Some people just do better on methadone." I enrolled in a methadone maintenanceprogram in Pennsylvania, and after two months I stabilized and was off street drugs completely.After battling a heroin addiction for two of the longest years of my young life, I decided to takecontrol and get clean. To find a methadone clinic treatment center near you, check outturntohelp.com.