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Question by meeeeeelee: What is the normal dosage of methadone for someone coming off opiates. Is 10 mil once a day considered normald?
I just need the info for myself. Plwease help me out with what you know…..Whats normal, 5 mg, 10mg, 50?mg, daily, and do you just use it once in the morning. I need some yah-help.

Best answer:

Answer by NY_Woman2009
This is a question you should be asking your doctor. Methadone is prescribed differently for everyone and it has to be based on your own personal needs. No one can or should tell you without seeing your past and present medical history. To advise you without having that information could have dire effects. If you haven’t already done so, you need to get into some sort of program to come off the opiates in a healthy way. Good luck!    Read more...

Little evidence harm reduction reduces harm more than good
In A Critical Evaluation of the Effects of Safe Injection Facilities for The Institute on Global Drug Policy, Dr. Garth Davies, SFU associate professor wrote: “The methodological and analytic approaches used in these studies are compromised by an array … Read more on Vancouver Sun

Grandmother charged with killing one-year-old grandson with METHADONE …
… it was an accident, according to WJZ, but the guilt-ridden grandmother eventually fessed up. 'She confirmed that she had given methadone to the children and put it on the gum lines of their mouths,' Detective Jeremy Silbert, Baltimore City Police … Read more on Daily Mail

Father gets 10 years in toddler's methadone overdose
The father of a 2-year-old child who overdosed on methadone at a Phoenix hotel nearly two years ago was sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised probation Friday for child abuse and attempted child abuse. Anthony Gabriel Casillas … Read more on WHNS Greenville

County suicide, prescription drug death rates up
After cocaine, prescription drugs diazepam (brand name Valium), methadone, oxycodone, hydrocodone and diphenhydramine (brand name Benadryl, Sominex) were among the top 10 drugs in overdose deaths. … “Kids were coming up to me afterward. Read more on Del Mar Times

Expansion of heroin, opioid medical treatment needed to reduce overdose deaths
Evidence shows that methadone and buprenorphine, two forms of opioid substitution therapy, are effective at retaining clients in treatment. Prolonged retention in treatment can lead to reductions in illicit drug use, overdoses, behaviours that increase … Read more on News-Medical.net

Child Dies After Baltimore Grandmother Towanda Reaves Uses Methadone on …
A woman has been accused of killing her own grandson after rubbing the drug methadone into his gums to make him sleep. Towanda Reaves, 50, has been charged with murder and child abuse, and also injected the 17-month-old's sister, who survived the … Read more on IBTimes.co.uk    Read more...

Man Has Drug Overdose, Police Say; Drug Paraphernalia Recovered
Police responded to the 9200 block of Courtland for a drug overdose case on July 28 just after 5 p.m. and found a 43-year-old man conscious and talking. Police spoke to the person who had called in to report the overdose, a woman in her 50s, who said … Read more on Patch.com

Carney inflation report: as it happened
His statement was also more balanced – six words closely contended for the top slot, whereas King used the word "inflation" at least twice as many times as the most common word, "monetary". For more linguistic analysis, take a look at James … Read more on Telegraph.co.uk

Mark Carney is about to make his first mistake – not raising interest rates
It would boost confidence in the recovery, confirm that the process of normalisation has begun and act as a warning to still over-leveraged firms and families that this is the last chance for them to get their act together. There is, tragically, no … Read more on Telegraph.co.uk    Read more...

No to drug injection sites in Toronto
Toronto already runs needle exchange and methadone programs for drug addicts and there's little evidence a supervised injection site would be an effective addition to that. The 2012 study found injection drug use in Toronto, unlike Vancouver and Ottawa … Read more on Toronto Sun

The Holistic Sanctuary Issues Statement Concerning The New York Times …
The Holistic Sanctuary, home of the exclusive, all-natural and proprietary Pouyan Method for enabling patients to permanently end addiction announces, in response to the latest editorial in the New York Times about painkiller overdoses in women … Read more on Watch List News (press release)