Methadone and My Mom?
Question by genler10: methadone and my mom?
my 50 yr old mom takes doses of methadone because of an addiction to shooting up oxycotin. she asked me about getting off of it. she starting abusing street drugs due to the stopping of her pain meds after an ankle ingury. i do not understand fully how people get themselves into these situations. but is there an alternative to her pain than doing the dosages. thanx so much
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Answer by Sarah RN
It is a sad situation your mom is in. I have seen this alot, I am a nurse and I work with people who have broken bones and injury’s to their muscles. It sounds like she has developed a dependency to pain medicine. The scary thing is methadone is very addictive also and has recently been causing alot of deaths. ( Anna nicole smith and her son overdosed on this).addiction is a very complex problem, no one truly understands all of its components. With addiction, people develop a tolerance to pain medications and they need more and more of the drug to make the pain go away. Alot of times the pain is psychological too. People are afraid to be in pain. Sometimes people have to learn that they have to live with some pain, and they don’t like that. Hopefully she can get some help with her addictions and live a healthy life.
Answer by AttorneyKearney
Getting off of any drug requires a gradual process of diminishing usage
Below is some information about it.
Methadone (Symoron, Dolophine, Amidone, Methadose, Physeptone, Heptadon and many others) is a synthetic opioid, used medically as an analgesic, antitussive and a maintenance anti-addictive for use in patients on opioids. It was developed in Germany in 1937. Although chemically unlike morphine or heroin, methadone also acts on the opioid receptors and thus produces many of the same effects. Methadone is also used in managing chronic pain due to its long duration of action and very low cost. In late 2004, the cost of a one-month supply of methadone was $ 240, as compared to an equivalent analgesic amount of meperidine (pethidine) at $ 120, up to $ 500 and more for hydromorphone, morphine, fentanyl, and extended-release oxycodone (trade name OxyCodone(TM)).
Methadone’s usefulness in treatment of opioid dependence is the result of several factors. It has cross-tolerance with other opioids including heroin and morphine, long duration of effects with the result that oral dosing with methadone will stabilise the condition of the patient by stopping and preventing the opioid withdrawal syndrome, and by at least partially blocking the “rush” resulting from intravenous injection of heroin, morphine, and similar drugs.
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