Methadone Clinics: Methadone & Heroin Facts

methadone clinics - Important information about methadone and heroin. Methadone is used to treat addiction to heroin and other drugs.

	Methadone is a synthetic opioid used medically as a painkiller, but also to treat patients on opioids such as heroin.

Where are there methadone clinics in Florida?
I'm re locating to Florida and I will need to find a methadone clinic that I can transfer to since I'm currently on a program in my home town. Is there a site? Thanks.

How do you feel about methadone clinics?
Are they more helpful to people or more harmful?Do you think they are just legal drug dealers?

How do methadone clinics work?
my ex wife is in a methadone clinic, isnt she tested for other drugs as well as heroin?... how is she still smoking pot?well im asking because she has my kids for now...and i dont want them around drugs period...she was arrested for possesing pot after she fell asleep at a stop light

Are needle exchange programs and heroin/methadone clinics morally wrong?
I was just reading an article about the lack of federal funding for needle exchange programs in U.S., and one part caught my attention that many people oppose needle exchange programs on the basis that it is morally wrong.I personally think that is ridiculous to not give out needles to addicts. The only considerations that apply here are the practical ones. People who are already shooting up will shoot up with whatever they get their hands on. If we can give them clean needles, then they will be less likely to transmit diseases through needles. Which means that less diseases will be transfered, period. And even if you don't care about junkies, you have to realize that not all junkies look like junkies and that said junkies can transmit diseases through other means, as well.Similarly, I don't see what's wrong with heroin or methadone clinics. They have been proven to be very successful in many countries, yet we are very opposed to them here in the U.S. We have some methadone clinics, but heroin clinics are like a taboo. However, they've worked very well in other countries, like Switzerland.So, in summary, can anyone here rail against needle exchange programs and heroin or methadone clinics, based on morals alone? If so, then how what are those morals formed?Sources time.com time nation article 0,8599,1898073,00.htmldrugpolicy.org library tlcnr.cfm

How many countries have methadone clinics?
I can't seem to get much attention to my questions, so I already asked this question in a different form, but I'm simply rewording it in hopes of getting the best answer and to attract the most answers. I am new here, but I promise that I will give out the most possible points for an adequate answers... links, and websites would be awesome.

What countries have methadone clinics?
Just out of curiosity, I was wondering how many countries around the world provide the access to legal methadone clinics for those addicted to opiates? I know that heroin is not a problem that is limited to the western countries, although it is much worse there. I'm sure that all scandanavian countries as well as most western european countries have them, but what about countries in south america? east asia? the middle east? africa? australia? THANK YOU.

How is a methadone clinic legal? 2% or less success rate!?
How is a methadone clinic legally operated. I know several young adults that go to a methadone clinic, and none of them ever get any better. Nobody else at the clinic ever gets better either. They pay nearly 500 dollars a month to get high legally. They have no set plan to ween you off. They allow you to stay there as long as you want. If you fail multiple drug tests they continue to let you come. This is absolutely insane that this is allowed by the government. I guarantee you the success rate of a methadone clinic is less than 2 %. Sure people are not doing heroin anymore, but they are doing methadone which basically does the same thing. The people I know stay high on their dosage, and come home and try to find more and more. Everyone I know that goes to that place is getting no better. Nobody that they know that goes to that place is getting any better. If you type methadone in yahoo answers, you find a bunch of addicts trying to figure out how to get more, how to sneak it out, if I take this with my methadone will I be ok, how often do they have drug tests at the clinic because I want to get high on something else too. It's crazy that no one has made this an issue. I don't think most of the general population realize this is going on. People try to argue that this is junkies trying to get better, when actually it's junkies trying to get high without having to worry about a jail sentence.

How do can i get methadone outside of a methadone clinic?
I have gone to methadone clinics but cant afford them.Is there an easy or cheap way to get it in any other way?

How do can i get methadone outside of a methadone clinic?
How do can i get methadone outside of a methadone clinic?I have gone to methadone clinics but cant afford them.Is there an easy or cheap way to get it in any other way?Who could give it to me?Where and when?

Methadone Clinics... Is anyone seeing what I'm seeing here?
Why the hell are these clinics an acceptable way to get people off of heroin?This drug has worse withdrawal symptoms than heroin that can last a very very long time. We shouldn't be getting people off drugs by putting them on different kinds of drugs. It is terrible what these clinics do to people, it just looks like a scam to me. They don't care about the health of the recovering addicts, they clearly just want money. I really feel bad for the people that have fallen into the trap that these clinics are. It's no doubt that a heroin addict is going to get addicted to methadone when they go there. If they're going to get addicted to heroin, they're going to get addicted to it's substitute as well. So can somebody tell me why these places are legal and accepted? Am I missing something here?" You can call me God" Addicts are NOT content on being addicts. You clearly do not understand how an addiction works. They would want more than anything to get off but their bodies and minds try their hardest to keep them on it through withdrawal symptoms.Meth is a bit different than heroin. The thing with meth and cocaine is that users just think they don't have a problem and that it is a perfectly acceptable way of living life. Once they realize they have a problem or are forced to quit by their family it's not as hard on the body as quitting heroin or methadone. With heroin or methadone you can want to quit really badly but the physical withdrawal symptoms are way too much to bear. With meth it's much more mental than physical. Sure, there are plenty of junkies that want to continue being junkies. But once they realize they have a problem via family or just by themselves, it's just terrible that this is what they are lead to most of the time. A lot of them just don't know what they are getting themselves into.I know it's a physical addiction too. It's just that compared to heroin the physical addiction to meth isn't shit. It's pretty sad that you don't have sympathy for people who have done the same things you have.

Methadone Clinic question?
This is a question for Pennsylvania methadone clinics. If a drug user, such as a heroine addict checks in to a methadone clinic. Do they test you for hepatitis a,b,and c. Also, do they test you for hiv? How many times do they do this ?Thank you