what are the longterm effects of methadone for people using no other drugs but that?

Answer 1

Methadone can safely be taken forever. However it is also a horrific drug to withdraw from as it has a very long life in your system.
Unless one has the sugar free variety, cleaning teeth after consuming the syrup is advisable too, as the sugar can rot your teeth

Answer 2

Methadone hydrochloride is an opioid (a synthetic opiate) that was originally synthesized by German pharmaceutical companies during the second world war. It was first marketed as 'Dolophine' and was used as an analgesic (a painkiller) for the treatment of severe pain. It is still occasionally used for pain relief.

Methadone is now primarily used today for the treatment of narcotic addiction. The effects of methadone last longer than those of morphine-based drugs. Methadone's effects can last up to 24 hours, thereby permitting administration only once a day in heroin detoxification and maintenance programs.

How is methadone taken?

Methadone is usually available as a liquid - linctus or methadone mixture - which should be swallowed. Tablets and injectable ampoules are sometimes prescribed, and like many other medicines some of these prescribed drugs are diverted and become available illegally.

What are methadone's adverse reactions?

Deaths occur more frequently at the beginning of treatment in methadone programs; they are usually a cause of excessive doses (i.e. erroneously estimated tolerance) and they are affected by concomitant diseases (hepatitis, pneumonia). Methadone generally entails the entire spectrum of opioid side effects, including the development of tolerance and physical and psychological dependence. Respiratory depressions are dangerous. The released histamines can cause hypotension or bronchospasms. Other symptoms are: constipation, nausea or vomiting, sedation, vertigo, edema.

What are the symptoms of methadone overdose?

Body as a whole
muscle spasticity
Respiratory
difficulty breathing
slow, shallow and labored breathing
stopped breathing (sometimes fatal within 2-4 hours)
Eyes, ears, nose and throat
pinpoint pupils
bluish skin
bluish fingernails and lips
Gastrointestinal
spasms of the stomach and/or intestinal tract
constipation
Heart and blood vessels
weak pulse
low blood pressure
Nervous system
drowsiness
disorientation
coma

What is methadone dependency?

As an opiate, regular use of methadone causes physical dependency - if you've been using it regularly (prescribed or not) once you stop you will experience a withdrawal. The physical changes due to the drug are similar to other opiates (like heroin); suppressed cough reflex, contracted pupils, drowsiness and constipation. Some methadone users feel sick when they first use the drug. If you are a woman using methadone you may not have regular periods - but you are still able to conceive. Methadone is a long-acting opioid; it has an effect for up to 36 hours (if you are using methadone you will not withdraw for this period) and can remain in your body for several days.

Obviously those are the effects on you body but using drugs causes all sorts of other problems:
1. Breakdown in relationships
2. You can lose your job
3. You can resort to stealing and crime to fund the addiction
4. You can behave recklessly

Get some help early and try and beat the addiction!!

Answer 3

No sex drive at all. A person on a opiate will experience low to no sex drive at higher levels. Most people are not bothered by this since the drive simply fades. It will come back after drugs are eliminated.

OPitaes especialy methadone will tighten your stomach muscles so expect slow moving with going to the bath. Urination can be affected but not as much as the other. It just constricts the muscles so everything is more difficult to move through. This is something you don't feel it is like being constapated.

Answer 4

Long term use, as the patient becomes tolerant of the dosage, it has to be increased....over and over again. Opiates are a system depressant, meaning it slows all bodily functions (organs, respirations, etc.) down. It causes severe rebound pain with long-term use. And, of course, the addiction. Whether you abuse the medication or not, you will be come addicted to it. Withdrawals are horrible.

Answer 5

I have always heard that methadone goes into the bones and its very hard to come off of.

Answer 6

The best solution is to gain control over it. As someone already said, stop when you're getting there and relax. Pay more attention to pleasuring your mate--orally, perhaps--and avoid rubbing your penis up against anything while doing so. It will take work on your part and patience on both parts. Learn here http://EndPrematureEjaculation.enle.info/?h34f

As a last resort, some antidepressants curb sexual functioning with the intention of learning the pleasure of restraint after which you could taper off them. Here's your goal: the longer you can delay your orgasm, the more intense it will be. So it isn't just a matter of satisfying your mate. This is the main reason some claim stoned sex is better, unlike drunk sex which can leave you unable to perform (brewer's droop). You enjoy exploring each other longer. And remember, oral isn't just one place. It's all over, paying particular attention to kissing, and TALK about what each of you like. Strange how people don't talk about sex when they're the ones doing it.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

As a pharmacy technician I was told that it really rots their teeth. We used to get in the sugarfree stuff but were warned against it as some addicts were injecting it to get a better buzz.

Answer 9

http://www.exchangesupplies.org/publications/methadonehbk/thingsmethadone.html

http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/methandbook/longterm.htm

http://www.iol.ie/~carnin/ptaa/bundoran01/cd/webfiles/drugs/METHADONE.htm

Answer 10

it will rot your teeth