Methadone for Heroin Addiction?
Question by aslkdfncx: Methadone for heroin addiction?
Can someone please tell me how it makes any sense for doctors to prescribe methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction?
The withdrawals from methadone addiction take 3 times longer than for heroin (3 weeks against 5 days), and are actually more painful. Methadone has extremely high potential for abuse, how does it make sense to give a heroin addict a similar drug to heroin and expect them not to abuse it? What progress are you really making in overcoming addiction if you’re just preoccupying them with another drug?
Best answer:
Answer by the_only_solorose
you CAN die from heroin withdrawal, you CANNOT die from methadone withdrawal. Clear enough?
Answer by Hottie
It doesn’t.
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