#methadone

[hedonisticwrld]

I can’t believe I went 2 a detox

Facility for fent and I got

High in there (on

Both fetty && k2/deuce! ) in that bitch.

Fuck big pharma; fuck the corporate world && fuck all you tax sucking leeching bozos.

[secularsasquatch]

[macgyvermedical]

Today at work, I had a client who came in after being absent for 10 days.

To start off, I work at a methadone clinic. This client was twenty years old. He lived with his father.

He'd been absent because his father had told him, in no uncertain terms, that if he didn't quit methadone, he'd be out on his ass. His father wanted him to do NA exclusively, because he didn't want him "addicted to methadone."

This client had a longstanding severe opioid use disorder. He had been clean and sober for three months. He'd gotten a job.

When he'd tried to quit methadone to appease his father, he'd relapsed on fentanyl. He lost the job because he used at work. He'd lost his sobriety. He had kept his housing at the expense of just about everything else in his life.

Now he was back at the clinic, in secret, risking his housing to get some stability back in his life.

I wish there wasn't so much misinformation about methadone. Scientifically it's one of the most effective options for treating opioid use disorder, but because you do take a medication (and there's the idea that you weren't born needing opioids so you should just be able to stop without help or medical assistance), there's a lot of stigma. And it's really bad for people who might have benefited from a methadone program but didn't try because of attitudes like this.

[st0ne-butch]

You know, I've been doing this for a while now but every single day shortly before methadone time, when the withdrawal hits, I'm like hnnnnnghhhhhh ?! 🫪🫪🫪. It's truly amazing how wrong a body can feel.

Don't do opioids, kids.

[skaglordsyringegod]

IF YOU ARE ABSTINENT YOUR WAY OF RECOVERY IS NOT BETTER OR MORE VALID THAN SOMEONE ON OAT, NOT ALL OF US ARE DESIGNED TO FUNCTION SOBER HAPPILY

Also HAT is a valid form of recovery and needs to see application in the United States

[wausaupilotreview]

As other states expand access to methadone treatment under relaxed federal rules, Wisconsin has been slow to follow. The story, from Wisconsin Watch:

‘Golden handcuffs’: Wisconsin methadone rules limit access to opioid treatment