My fiance is addicted to pain pills. We have talked about getting her some help from a methadone clinic. I have researched methadone, and from what I am seeing, some people use methadone for pain relief, and some people have even gotten addicted to it. How is this helping a person who is trying to get off pain pills, if their taking something that they could also get addicted to?

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I know what it feels like but I don;t understand what your body has to physically do to get back to normal. I have been on methadone 4 yrs, tapered down to 10mg a day and am fixing to quit. I know it will be hell. Don’t really want to do the subutex route if I can avoid it.

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If one is using it for the treatment of addiction, would it be okay to just stop using methadone after some time?

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I greatly appreciate the response so far and the concern. Yes, I am talking with supposed medical “experts” in this field, the pain management field and methadone field. However I am far from convinced my pain management (pm) specialist (pms) is anything more than a anesthesioligest who constantly wants to push me into allowing them to stick things in my spinal cord to find nerves, to burn the ends off the nerves, to shoot me up with steroids, etc… all of which I have done before and has not yet done me any good. This pms will not increase nor decrease my present dose because they do not want any responsibility. If you don’t want to take any resonsibility why are you even a doctor??! Now that I have asked about getting off of methadone, they want nothing to do with me except to refer me to a local hospital’s detox clinic for 60-90 days of pure hell that I would rather die than go thru!! I did cold turkey off the Dalaudid without knowing what to expect, over a month of hell,no relief!

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