I have heard several people say that they really need methadone for pain, because their doctors would not give them strong enough medicine for pain, so they had to "fake" addiction in order to get the medicine at the methadone clinics. Some say that they are still dependent, but they still need it for pain also.
2007-01-21 04:17:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
I know all about methadone, so I am not really asking about it or comments on it. I know the reason people go to the clinics is to get off the more dangerous street drugs. I know some people were going to doctors and the doctors had them on opiate medication for a while, and then took them off, which I didn't really understand why they put them on it to begin with, if they are just going to take them off. So they still need pain medicine and the only way to get it would be to go to the methadone clinic if they cannot find another doctor to keep them on it. So I have heard several say that although they were dependent, they still need the methadone for pain. So I was hoping maybe the ones that are in this situation would tell me. I know that methadone does not make a person high like the street drugs.
2007-01-21 05:12:26 · update #1
I was really wondering since I had heard some say that, and hoped maybe I would get answers from the methadone clients, but it's okay if you want to give your opinions, as long as you know enough about it, and not just what someone tells you, because I have heard all kinds of different stories. I know that some doctors where I live, do not like to prescribe opiate pain medicine, and I can understand why, if the pain is not real bad, and isn't an on-going condition. But what I am asking is do you, or do you know someone to whom the doctor was prescribing opiates for an on-going severe condition, and then cut them off for fear of dependency (which seems like it would be too late anyway after a month or so) and that person went to a methadone clinic and just said that they were dependent , which was probably true, but the main reason was that they needed something to ease the severe pain?
2007-01-21 13:09:08 · update #2
Yes, I myself am doing that. I went to a pain clinic for a while but wasnt getting any relief at all. I was taking about 10 hydros a day and wearing a duragesic patch. I now take one dose of methadone a day and have no pain. Methadone is great because it stores in the liver and uses it later. It helps me alot.
2007-01-21 04:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by blackman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be eligible to receive Methadone from a doc, you MUST be in severe pain for long periods of time, they don't give it to you because of spraining an ankle or something. There are serious regulations you have to follow, I would think that the person going to the clinic to get Methadone is truely not in severe pain and is looking to get high, could be the reason the docs aren't prescribing Methadone to a person who is not in severe pain. Can a person fake addiction...............pretty pathetic if your only goal was to get Methadone. Methadone is powerful, overdosing is easy to do, care should be taken and Methadone itself is addictive
2007-01-21 05:16:13 · answer #2 · answered by fisherwoman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think many patients go to methadone clinics for pain relief, because you need a physician referral and documentation that'd be hard to replicate. More and more doctors, however, are prescribing methadone for pain in those patients of theirs that are hooked on narcotics. Why? Because, methadone prevents the nasty withdrawal symptoms, stops the craving, and oftentimes solves the pain problem.
2007-01-21 04:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by john k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coming off methadone addiction is VERY painful so my guess is. Not really. The pain could be one and the same with the addiction.
2007-01-21 04:25:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Addiction! I've known 5 people who used to addicted to pain medication, and found out methadone is only 11 dollars a day, so they still get high and it's cheaper. It's a shame, but its true.
2007-01-21 04:23:05 · answer #5 · answered by mastin_danes 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The pain must first be gotten rid to avoid addiction.
2007-01-21 04:22:46 · answer #6 · answered by SKG R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a ceap high that can go forever, once you get on, it is up to you when it's time to quit. A friend of mine says it is a great high, free, and never ending, he knows a lady who has use it for 13 years and still going.
It should be outlawed, or at least have a Doctor know when to stop the dosages.
2007-01-21 04:26:40 · answer #7 · answered by spiritwalker 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋