Yes I will admit that methadone has lead me down a path to recovery but I have seen countless clinics and they are the same. They do not want you to be off their product. They know that if they actually cured addiction they would go out of businesses so you have to be a stronge ass person to get off of it once you have begun. There are tests called peak and trough. It tells the doctor how fast you are metabolizing your methadone. This test should be mandatory for ever increase of dose requested. They start you ar 30mg and allow you to tell them if the dose is holding them. Now let me say that again. The methadone clinics ask the ADDICT if they need more of what they are addicted to. This needs to stop! For a clinic to allow me to go to 160mg is ridiculous and should have never happened. They do this because they know it will take longer to get off their “program”. They also do not talk about life without methadone. These clinics do not see humans,they see numbers. The counselors that are assigned to Individuals (as mandated by the law) need to have a moral compass. Curing and not adding to the addicts tolerance is what needs to be the consensus with every clinic. To sum it up … Methadone clinics need to Stop being a legal dealer. They have got to reform there program towards curing and not a “legal” dependence.
I have very common sense ways we can reform the clinics so that they are not creating a bigger far worse problem! And how they can actually be used to treat and not to create another way to make you need them!
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