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Online Methadone Maintenance Treatment Training Session Part 2 — Opioid dependence is a health concern with implications for the individual patient as well as the public. Methadone maintenance treatment is recognized inter…

Question by Queen: What are the benefits of taking methadone?
I have a heroin problem and I heard that I can take methadone to stop. What are the benefits to this..will I be addicted to methadone then too?

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Answer by D
I’ve used heroin infrequently enough to never becoming fully addicted, so my only experience with methadone was as an occasional gift. From addicted friends, however, I get the impression that methadone blocks heroin like vodka blocks gin. There are many people who consider themselves “clean” for multiple years due to daily methadone use. Many continue to use H from time to time, and end up just using the methadone as an extra opioid to get high on.

Suboxone seems to be the successor to methadone, and people have pretty good success getting opioid free with it.    Read more...

A Fix for Stress-Related Pelvic Pain – New York Times

A Fix for Stress-Related Pelvic Pain New York Times The therapeutic wand resembling a longshoreman's cargo hook, but made of plastic, is used to gently press on “trigger points” in pelvic muscles that are in spasm. What makes it unorthodox is that men must insert it rectally; a small number of women use … and more »

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Question by Heather: Will the pain of the talking for methadone cold turkey ever end?
I I am on 7 day detox off methadone. I had .to go cold turkey because I moved from New York to Ohio. I’ve been on 150 milligrams for four years now and did not meet the transfer requirements for this clinic in Ohio. I had to move here because I lost my house during Hurricane sandy I had no other option but here. I have no help it’s horrible I do not suggest doing it cold turkey. but in the same breath I know it can be done cause I’m doing I have two children a.m. for the husband I can barely do I have to get a shower and a week and I can barely function but somehow I manage. my mom has been a support system for me my husband um had lung surgery so he had to stay behind I think getting into client we more right for out of state travel for natural disasters to help with the process. I didn’t have a choice I had to do it was no other option I took my last till April 22nd today table 29th hopefully today will be better than yesterday. I’m going through once and had diarrhea everyday but the pain in my back in my stomach is the worst. hindsight is always 20/20 I wish I never went on the methadone program but what can you do I had major surgery and lost my life about me that I had major surgery so I was on very high pain killers by the time I get home and didn’t have no more already too far into the opiate grip. I just wish I knew then what I know now and I would have never gotten a program or I would not want to live in 15 or grants for four years because a disaster like but I don’t have a choice so I got to keep on going to my kids especially they need a mother back.    Read more...

The Endowed Clinical Chairmanships at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC — Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City celebrates its Endowed Clinical Chairmanships: Dr. Russell Portenoy, Gerald J. Friedman Chair in Pain and Palliat…

Pandemic of untreated cancer pain due to overregulation of pain medicines
"Most of the world's population lacks the necessary access to opioids for cancer pain management and palliative care, as well as acute, postoperative, obstetric, and chronic pain." "When one considers that effective treatments … as injectable …
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Denmark's 'Fix Rooms' Give Drug Users A Safe Haven
It's not that he's quit — though he is taking methadone, which has helped him cut back. It's that now he has a … "Pretty much all of that opposition has now faded away and a lot of people acknowledge they were wrong to oppose it: that it didn't …
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Inmates need needle-exchange programs and better access to HIV treatment …
"We are really in favour of collaborating with the prison system to try and find better ways to deliver harm reduction — whether that's supervised injection, a needle exchange, improved access to methadone," Milloy said Monday. … Richard Elliott …
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Grandma’s methadone kills 1 baby, injures 2nd — A Baltimore City grandmother has been arrested and charged with killing one of her grandchildren and injuring another after she gave them methadone.