Did the Methadone Clinic Overdose Me or Did the Vicodin?
Question by Lady Blue: Did the methadone clinic overdose me or did the Vicodin?
I know this is a long question PLEASE PLEASE answer I have wanted to know for two years. THANK YOU SO MUCH. My daughter uses Yahoo Answers I made her ask this Q for me.
I was a heavy Vicodin user for ten years. I went from one, twenty, sixty, eighty, and finally to one-hundred-twenty 750 MG pills per day. I tried to quit at each of the numbers listed above in intervals. When I was taking 120 per day I went to a methadone clinic to get help as part of an out-patient program where they put me on maintenance methadone to help me quit. I was doing two weeks of methadone without taking any Vicodin. I followed all the directions and did not misuse the methadone. I do not recall anything during the second week of treatment. However, my friends were still taking me daily to the clinic and had to carry me to get in the car. I don’t remember any of it. The methadone clinic kept increasing my dosage and my friends were telling them I was not drinking or eating. My friends were wondering if I needed to be hospitalized and the methadone clinic said no. I ended up slipping into a coma with 100% kidney and liver failure the same night and my family called 911. I was in a coma for thirty days. Do you think the Methadone clinic was at fault? I was NOT doing any Vicodin. So, what made me sick the methadone clinic or coming off of Vicodin???? Had my family been there I would have died that night. How many people are out there dying right now from the same treatment and trying to get sober.
I am two years sober just wondering what happened back in the day
Best answer:
Answer by cagess1982
Methadone is a very, very heavy medication and people can react to it in all sorts of ways. It’s actually just as addictive and way more dangerous than most of the opiates it helps people come off of! Most people have no idea how strong that stuff is and how dangerous it can be-most people who use it to come off opiates end up addicted to it!
When you’re on it, it prevents detox from opiates and so what you experienced wasn’t due to withdrawal from vicodin. I would definitely talk to a doctor (not somebody at the clinic) since they probably gave you too much and it put you into the coma state.
My husband used to be addicted to vicodin and heroine, and he’s on soboxyn, which is an opiate blocker and latches onto your receptors so you can’t get high on other opiates. It has a 36 hour half-life so you don’t go through the constant withdrawals like you do on vicodin or methadone, and long-term studies have shown that people have a much higher success rate with soboxyn than any other detox method when paired with therapy. Only certain doctors can prescribe it, so find one in your area and this will definitely help you much more than the methadone!
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