http://wamecuador.com/2009/10/10/what-do-you-think-of-my-article-harmd-more-harm-than-good/ vitamin e supplements Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:24:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://wamecuador.com/2009/10/10/what-do-you-think-of-my-article-harmd-more-harm-than-good/comment-page-1/#comment-1255 DynoDiKk Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:00:12 +0000 http://wamecuador.com/2009/10/10/what-do-you-think-of-my-article-harmd-more-harm-than-good/#comment-1255 It's very well written however none of us whether my children my wife use narcotics or ipiates, Good article .Good luck It’s very well written however none of us whether my children my wife use narcotics or ipiates, Good article .Good luck

]]> http://wamecuador.com/2009/10/10/what-do-you-think-of-my-article-harmd-more-harm-than-good/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 cynical1 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:01 +0000 http://wamecuador.com/2009/10/10/what-do-you-think-of-my-article-harmd-more-harm-than-good/#comment-1254 Opiates or methadone are NOT my areas of expertise and I am not familiar at all on the use of methadone for pain management other than I know some do use it in that manner. If used properly, methadone can be a life-saver for the hard-core heroin or opiate user. It buys them time to sort out their personal lives, work their recoveries, and deal with what they are trying to avoid that drove them to numb themselves in the first place. One problem that I see is the quality of those who are monitoring the addict and the way it is dispensed. Addicts have a disease- they are not bad people trying to get good, they are sick people trying to get well. Would we as a country tolerate having our diabetic loved ones lined up on the street in a bad part of town at 5 in the morning to get their insulin for the day from a poorly educated clerk? NO! Yet it seems perfectly acceptable that addicts must comply with substandard treatment to get their daily dose. The other thing that I see wrong with the methadone program is the recovery aspect of it, yeah they are supposed to be working on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspect of recovery…but it’s not a requirement. And plans to taper off the methadone are almost nonexistent, methadone is subsidized, if the addict gets off the methadone, the clinic loses federal or state grant money. Then there is also the problem of using on top of, around, or in combination with. Mix the methadone with a benzo, and it’s the same high as the heroin was and too often death comes to collect. Personally, I’m not for or against methadone, it’s a tool, not a cure. However, with the only alternative being the unsubsidized program of Buprenorphine/ Suboxone/ Subutex, which is a partial agonist at the mu-opioid receptor and an antagonist at the kappaopioid receptor, methadone is really the only alternative for those who cannot afford the Sub program. In the UK and surrounding countries they are now making an effort to totally eliminate the methadone programs, which of course is terrorizing those in the program. I fear that the result of banning the program will force addicts to buy off the streets or return back to their drug of choice. I hope here in the USA that before banning or even altering the methadone program that there is an affordable and viable alternative firmly in place, and a switch-over type program has been tested before they do anything drastic. Hundreds of thousands of patients rely on methadone for quality of life purposes, lets not throw them under the bus. Opiates or methadone are NOT my areas of expertise and I am not familiar at all on the use of methadone for pain management other than I know some do use it in that manner. If used properly, methadone can be a life-saver for the hard-core heroin or opiate user. It buys them time to sort out their personal lives, work their recoveries, and deal with what they are trying to avoid that drove them to numb themselves in the first place. One problem that I see is the quality of those who are monitoring the addict and the way it is dispensed. Addicts have a disease- they are not bad people trying to get good, they are sick people trying to get well. Would we as a country tolerate having our diabetic loved ones lined up on the street in a bad part of town at 5 in the morning to get their insulin for the day from a poorly educated clerk? NO! Yet it seems perfectly acceptable that addicts must comply with substandard treatment to get their daily dose. The other thing that I see wrong with the methadone program is the recovery aspect of it, yeah they are supposed to be working on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspect of recovery…but it’s not a requirement. And plans to taper off the methadone are almost nonexistent, methadone is subsidized, if the addict gets off the methadone, the clinic loses federal or state grant money. Then there is also the problem of using on top of, around, or in combination with. Mix the methadone with a benzo, and it’s the same high as the heroin was and too often death comes to collect.
Personally, I’m not for or against methadone, it’s a tool, not a cure. However, with the only alternative being the unsubsidized program of Buprenorphine/ Suboxone/ Subutex, which is a partial agonist at the mu-opioid receptor and an antagonist at the kappaopioid receptor, methadone is really the only alternative for those who cannot afford the Sub program. In the UK and surrounding countries they are now making an effort to totally eliminate the methadone programs, which of course is terrorizing those in the program. I fear that the result of banning the program will force addicts to buy off the streets or return back to their drug of choice. I hope here in the USA that before banning or even altering the methadone program that there is an affordable and viable alternative firmly in place, and a switch-over type program has been tested before they do anything drastic. Hundreds of thousands of patients rely on methadone for quality of life purposes, lets not throw them under the bus.

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