Methadone Detoxification
Physicians use methadone as a pain reliever. Some physicians use methadone to treat heroin addiction by substituting methadone for heroin. Unfortunately, they do not realize that methadone is even more addictive than traditional opiates like heroin. Breaking methadone addiction is even more difficult than quitting heroin and the symptoms of methadone withdrawal are more severe.
In a recent year, doctors prescribed enough prescription painkillers to medicate every American adult every 4 hours for a month. As a result, pain medication related visits to hospital emergency rooms has spiked over 98 percent in recent years. A recent video from Science Daily points out taxpayers often foot the bill.
Trading one opiate drug for another is never an acceptable treatment.… [Continue Reading]