Why Use Methadone for Pain?

Question by Janine: why use methadone for pain?

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Answer by Joe
Why not?

Answer by Pat Callahan
It gets you high as hell.

Prescription drug battle fuels rise in heroin use
WASHINGTON — From the beginning, the U.S. government's decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering "pill mills" would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and …
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In the Dock: Bournemouth
Admitted having articles for use in the course of or in connection with theft, namely a pair of bolt croppers. Community order made. The defendant … Also admits possession of 10 tablets of Methadone a class A drug. Discharged conditionally for 12 months.
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