Methadone Clinics

Methadone clinics do not address the real physiological and other causes
of addiction to opioids and opiates such as:

OxyContin	Hydrocodone	Lortab
Oxycodone	Heroin	Lorcet
Vicodin	Percocet	Morphine

Instead, methadone clinics use the heroin-like prescription narcotic painkiller methadone to "treat" addictions to narcotics, essentially switching from the original narcotic addiction to a methadone addiction.

Today, more than a quarter of a million Americans are enrolled in methadone clinics where they participate in “methadone replacement therapy” or “methadone maintenance” programs.

In this section we cover:

How methadone clinics imprison millions of narcotic addicts
How government, the public and the media justify methadone clinics
Why methadone clinic “treatment” is not the answer to narcotic addiction.

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How Methadone Clinics Imprison Millions of Addicts

At methadone clinics, addictions to narcotics such as heroin, morphine, oxycodone and other opioids and opiates are replaced with government-sanctioned “replacement addictions” to free methadone.

Believe it or not, methadone clinics and their supporters call this “treatment”, in spite of the fact that methadone is considered by many to be the most difficult narcotic there is from which to withdraw—much worse than the narcotics they claim to be treating.

People Can Escape the Methadone Prison and Take Off Their “Liquid Handcuffs.” We See It Every Day At Novus.

At Novus Medical Detox Center, we successfully treat methadone addictions on a regular basis. We believe that methadone clinic “treatment” is a prison where addicts are not confined by walls, but by their dependence on methadone, “liquid handcuffs”, to get through each day.

Few methadone clinics will tell you why it will be amost impossible to withdraw from methadone but here is an explanation.

Here are some comments from former Novus Medical Detox Center patients now free of methadone, describing how methadone addiction and the methadone clinics imprisoned them:

You get up early to drive or take a bus to the methadone clinic—life can’t continue without it
The clinic is often in a rundown or even dangerous neighborhood
You stand in line with strangers—some who wear business suits and others who haven't bathed in weeks
When friends ask you to go away for a weekend or a cruise, you have to make up excuses about why you can't leave town
You can never take off for a few days with your kids to go camping or to amusement parks in another city
As time goes by, you have less and less energy
The face in your mirror soon looks much older than it should
You worry because your libido is decreasing at an alarming rate, and nothing seems to help
You don't get high on methadone, you just hope you don't get sick
But sometimes you do get sick, even while taking methadone.
To read more about why you have to get off methadone, read The Methadone Prison .

Being chained to the nearest methadone clinic is far from the only drawback of these clinics. Some scary research indicates that methadone clinics are probably contributing to the alarming rise in methadone-related deaths—a 300 percent increase since 2000, substantially more than the simple increase in methadone prescriptions.

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How Government, The Public And The Media
Justify Methadone Clinics

As you read through these points, keep this in mind:

Anyone addicted to methadone is still a drug addict, and if properly treated could very likely recover to a life completely free of drugs.

These are some of the justifications used for the existence of methadone clinics:

Methadone reduces the uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and other opioids.

That’s a no-brainer—of course it does. Methadone is a narcotic every bit as addictive as heroin or morphine, so of course, addicts find it easier to stop taking illegal opioids when taking methadone.
At higher dosages, methadone blocks the euphoric effect of heroin and other opioids, encouraging opioid addicts to stay off the illegal drugs.

Another no-brainer—but the heroin addict is now a methadone addict whose life is still enslaved by drugs.
Methadone is very (repeat, very) inexpensive compared to heroin, morphine and other narcotics.

The government, which pays most bills for most methadone clinics, really likes this point. Taxpayers, on the other hand, would rather see drug addicts completely off drugs for good—the tax dollars used for a cure, not supporting a lifetime of drug addiction.
The presence of methadone clinics is said by their proponents to reduce local drug-related crime and illnesses from sharing needles.

In some locations, crime increased, and one of the best-selling street drugs has become clinic-supplied methadone. In response to the rise of HIV and AIDS, methadone clinics blossomed all over North America and Europe.
Where methadone maintenance programs are a tax-supported social service, the state trades off the cost of the methadone and the clinic against the perceived higher costs of drug-related crime and justice actions.

Studies have shown that paying to cure addicts now would save countless billions of tax dollars in the long run.
“Addiction experts” have everyone convinced that opioid addiction is an “incurable chronic relapsing condition”—there is no cure for addiction.

This attitude flies in the face of thousands of people becoming free of narcotic addictions every year.
Methadone manufacturers, distributors and methadone clinics -- whether tax supported or private—are part of a world-wide billion-dollar methadone clinic industry located in every city and town.

Money talks, and big money talks louder. Public officials, the media and the public have bought the baloney: “Since methadone clinics are everywhere, they must be okay.”

Why Methadone Clinics Do Not Offer A Real Solution

Everyone involved in the existence of methadone clinics shares the same opportunity to review the evidence—narcotic addictions can be cured. But they continue to ignore it, instead plowing millions of people into a lifetime of state-sanctioned addictions.

Essentially, the addict is switched from one narcotic addiction to another—methadone.

Here are a few of the reasons that methadone clinics do not offer narcotic addicts, their families, or society at large, any kind of workable, acceptable solution to narcotic addiction:

The proponents of methadone clinics rarely mention the fact that opioid addictions can be cured, and that methadone clinics are just prolonging the agony of addiction.
Methadone clinics trade on the lie that methadone detox is too difficult for addicts to endure, that drug rehab is hit-and-miss and real recovery is unlikely or even impossible.
Supporters don't mention how methadone worsens addiction—methadone is the most difficult of all narcotics to withdraw from, and the longer you take it, the worse it gets.
Supporters don't mention that if you continue taking methadone while pregnant, this can create serious problems for the health of the baby.
Methadone clinics also don't tell you that methadone is more dangerous than all other prescription narcotic painkillers, actually threatening patients' lives. Unlike heroin or morphine, you don’t have to be addicted to methadone to die from it—the very first dose can kill you.
Methadone research and hundreds of deaths prove that methadone affects heart rhythm among a predictable percentage of people, which can lead to sudden cardiac arrest and death.
Special-interest lobby groups, slavishly reported by the media, continue to push the destructive lie that narcotic addictions are too difficult to try to cure, or in fact are impossible to cure. Political representatives, and even the medical profession, have bought the lie.
Thousands of “for profit” methadone clinics—and the pharmaceutical drug makers—owe their existence to making sure there are lots and lots of addicts. Curing addiction is not profitable.

Methadone clinics offering so-called “methadone replacement therapy” offer nothing therapeutic whatsoever.

Addictions to all the narcotics—heroin, morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and the rest—are all curable through modern methadone medical drug detox, followed by the right long-term drug rehab program.

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