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salvo
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 Posted: 01/11/06 - 01:00 Post subject: withdrawl to methedone |
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I heard that when a person wants to get of heroin, s/he uses methadone as it relieves those hard withdrawal symptoms from heroin addiction. Is there anybody who can tell me how this methadone works and why it is used for withdrawal symptoms?
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| Posted: 01/19/06 - 10:18 Post subject: |
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Withdrawal symptoms from heroin are harsh, and unbearable that most addicts don’t make it just because of this pain. Methadone helps them experience less severe effects like this: Heroin releases an excess of dopamine in the body and causes users to need an opiate continuously occupying the opioid receptor in the brain. Methadone occupies this receptor and is the stabilizing factor that permits addicts on methadone to change their behavior and to discontinue heroin use. Methadone reduces the cravings associated with heroin use and blocks the high from heroin, but it does not provide the euphoric rush. Consequently, methadone patients do not experience the extreme highs and lows that result from the waxing and waning of heroin in blood levels. In the end, the patient remains physically dependent on the opioid, but is freed from the uncontrolled and disruptive behavior seen in heroin addicts. Withdrawal from methadone is much slower than that from heroin. As a result, it is possible to maintain an addict on methadone without harsh side effects. Methadone brings about a biochemical balance in the body.
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| Posted: 04/03/07 - 13:04 Post subject: |
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| I dont know anything about heroin at all. But I do know that I had taken some methadone from a friend to gain energy, not knowing that it was used to ease withdrawls from heroin. I just took 20mg. a day for one year and just got off of it and from all the facts I have read, I understand that if your friend tries to stop the methadone it is harder to come off of that than heroin. I know for a fact how hard it is to go through the meth withdrawls but i did it I just lowered the dose by about 1 mg per day and then started making the days longer that I had to have some I would recommend her not getting hooked on another drug and just praying and asking god to help ease the withdrawls, just have faith and it will work If I can do it I know she can |
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