Posted on 07/30/2011 6:45:21 AM PDT by DBCJR
“The problem with Methadone is the extremely long half-life and active metabolites.”
That is not the problem, that’s what makes it the ideal opiate substitute. It eliminates the highs and lows of opioid use while blocking withdrawal symptoms.
“Methadone is paid for by tax dollars - state and fed. I don’t understand why taxpayers have to pay for what amounts to a substitute drug for addicts. This is the part of the ‘legalize drugs’ argument I despise. If someone wants to be addicted to drugs - ok, I guess. But why do taxpayers have to pay for the damage they do to their own lives?”
In Oklahoma the vast majority of methadone treated patients are cash pay, not tax payer funded.
“Absolute nonsense. Patients with acute pain can be properly treated by ethical physicians. Patients with chronic pain can be properly treated by ethical physicians. If you are using illegal narcotics of any kind you are a criminal. If you are ordering illegal drugs from criminals you should both be arrested.
This article is ridiculous. “
Your response does not make sense. The article is about treating addiction, not pain management. Many people who are being treated for pain management become addicted. But the article is about treating addiction, not pain.
“Absolute nonsense. Patients with acute pain can be properly treated by ethical physicians. Patients with chronic pain can be properly treated by ethical physicians. If you are using illegal narcotics of any kind you are a criminal. If you are ordering illegal drugs from criminals you should both be arrested.
This article is ridiculous. “
Your response does not make sense. The article is about treating addiction, not pain management. Many people who are being treated for pain management become addicted. But the article is about treating addiction, not pain.
“No one would use methadone if it wasn’t free.”
Methadone treatment is not free in Oklahoma. The vast majority of methadone treated patients in Oklahoma are cash paying.
They don’t. Most patients in Oklahoma are cash paying.
You can find addicts that will tell you anything. Find the data. See what that tells you.
CRC the nation’s largest methadone treatment provider with a nation-wide network of treatment centers states that 82 percent of clients are private pay. They did not identify the payer source for the other 18% but I would assume insurance. Most do not take Medicaid or Medicare.
Yes, and Al Gore did a documentary on An Inconvenient Truth, too. And let us not forget Michael Moore’s documentaries. If it is in a documentary it MUST be true!
CRC the nation’s largest methadone treatment provider with a nation-wide network of treatment centers states that 82 percent of clients are private pay. They did not identify the payer source for the other 18% but I would assume insurance. Most do not take Medicaid or Medicare.
Sorry.
Sorry.
yep.....there are people here locally that have been busted for possession, and are taking 30 MG oxycodone tablets like they are M&Ms. We’re talking 300 MG a day (and up!!) Oxy habits, and the frequency of local drug stores being held up for all of their opioids is on a steep rise.
Lots of scary, desperate junkies out there all over the place. I’m nervous about driving these days because there are so many functional junkies on the road at any given time.
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