Why Would My Sister Start the Methadone Program to Quit Drugs?
Question by Romez: Why would my sister start the methadone program to quit drugs?
but then keep taking pain pills and smoking meth anyway !? We drive her to the methadone clinic every morning before work for her dose…yet she keeps taking percocets and smoking meth anyway ! She says she’s weaning herself off of it 🙁
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Answer by Tink
She now has another dealer, and you’re driving.
Answer by LJ
Because in reality she’s not actually quitting…”she’s borrowing from Peter to pay Paul”, so to speak,she’s substituting one addiction for another…but when I take another look at it, she’s actually adding methadone to her percocet and meth substance abuse regimen. Methadone is like a synthetic opiate (narcotic/pain killer) used to wean people off of heroin (an opiate). If I’m not mistaken, it was either heroin or codeine that was invented to cure/wean Civil War soldiers from their morphine addiction (morphine was given to them during the war because of battle wounds and surgeries like amputations). Heroin, codeine, and morphine are all opiates because they are derived from opium which is the gum-like resin scraped from lacerated immature opium poppy flower bulbs. Methadone is a synthetic opiate. I never got the rationale of how using the same class of drug would alleviate an unwanted dependence of a drug in that same class. Like prescribing ritalin or adderall for hyper-active or attention deficit children, both drugs are like a form of “speed” (the profit driven logic of Big Pharma, go figure!).
Tell your sister, she’s not fooling anyone except herself. She should be enrolled in a facility where she is a resident where she will have no access to any drugs at all, not even methadone. A facility where she will be routinely and randomly drug tested. I know this may cause some big bucks, but if a human life can be salvaged, then what price can you put on that?
Good luck!
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