Thursday, August 9, 2007

Methadone Clinics

There is a new pay Methadone clinic in town that I think should be shut down. They charge twelve dollars a day, and they don't drug test like the free clinic, but the biggest crime going on is the amount of Methadone they are putting these people on. I have heard of them going as high as 200 mg a day and that is outrageous. They are taking semi-functional heroin addicts and turning them into drooling, non-functional, Methadone addicts, and the withdrawals from Methadone are more painful and dangerous that heroin withdrawal. I have given my daughter and her boyfriend Methadone to help them get off of heroin and found that just ten mgs will stop their withdrawals from heroin, and then the withdrawal from there is still gruesome, Methadone withdrawal is one of the very worst, but 10 mg is at least doable. I can't fathom withdrawal from 200 mg. I feel sure that this "clinic" is an opportunistic money maker for someone although it makes no sense that they spend what they do to dose their patients so high. I have an appointment with one of the doctors in town rumored to be involved with the clinic and hope to get some answers from him or at least just make him nervous by asking my questions about it.
Truthfully, I suspect that a lot of things about the drug laws and rules in this country are designed to make money for the government. Even though we all know it is less destructive than alcohol, Marijuanna will never be legalized because "they" make too much money by it being illegal and would make very little if it were legal. Too many people would just grow their own.
Twelve dollars a day doesn't sound like too much until you know how many heroin addicts there are around here. And most of them were created by the now jailed Dr. Rosario, who was prescribing huge dose of Oxicontin to anyone who asked for years before he got caught and all of his patients turned to Heroin, which is in short supply and expensive in this part of the country. My daughter was a patient of Dr. Rosario for Fibromyalgia for three years so I have first hand knowledge of all of this.
So, we will see how much noise I can make about this and end or fix it. See ya.

16 comments:

Melis11577 said...

Please see these videos and what actually goes on at clinics http://www.nbc10.com/news/13843471/detail.html and http://video.nbc10.com/player/?id=142152


Methadone is now the #2 Killer Drug in the U.S. This is a legal drug that has been thought to be safe for the past 40 years. Only recently when its use became approved for pain management patients has the cardio toxic risks emerged. Previously methadone has been used exclusively for replacement therapy for heroin patients and death was thought to be an effect of the accumulation of many years of drug abuse. With the surge in pain medication misuse and abuse more patients are being referred to methadone clinics and physicians treating pain who believe the myth that methadone is safer or non addictive because of it’s use with weaning addicts from heroin. Methadone is more addictive then any other pain medication including heroin and because of it’s extremely long half life, cardio toxic risks, numerous fatal drug interactions, dosages based on tolerance, and small margin of error. Up until Nov 2006 the government and pharmaceutical companies have been suppressing the numerous health and fatality risks related to methadone.

there are between 800,000 & 900,000 (some stats give diff numbers) heroin addicts in the U.S and 1,881 people died from heroin in the U.S. in 2004.

there are 200,000 people on methadone for drug treatment and I don't have the number of people on it for pain but even if we double the 200,000 and assume it's 400,000 total people on methadone there were 3,849 deaths in 2004

It looks like the "gold standard" is killing more then the drug its supposed to save people from!!!!

Every day 10.9 people die from Methadone (according to 2004 stats, not
including car accident deaths caused by drivers under the influence of Methadone)


We (the families of methadone victims) are requesting new laws surrounding who can prescribe Methadone, clinic rules and regulations as well as stiffer penalties for those caught selling their take home doses. The whole methadone maintenance system needs an overhauling. We cannot continue to allow a legal medication to be killing more people then the illegal drugs. Our government cannot be allowed to use tax dollars to fund their legal drug dealing operations.

We are asking government agencies to enact stricter guidelines in prescribing methadone for any reason. It must be mandatory that all doctors be certified and trained in the pharmacology of methadone; inpatient stays must be required during induction to methadone; all staff be extensively trained in monitoring methadone patients for symptoms of toxicity. Clinic patients should be tested weekly for legal and illegal drugs that are taken with methadone to get “ hi gh” or experience “euphoria” such as benzodiazepines, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, marijuana etc… and face severe consequences or mandatory detoxification from the methadone program after 3 dirty urines. Selling of take home doses must result in termination from methadone program permanently throughout the U.S. When presenting inebriated at clinic, clinic should also document such activity as well as prevent client from driving. Take home doses for all patients receiving methadone should be eliminated thus preventing the risk of diversion or precautions such as pill safe should be implemented. http://www.thepillsafe.com/

Current statistics show that nearly 4000 people a year die from methadone. These deaths are mostly happening to pain management and detoxification patients’ wit hi n the first 10 days of taking initial dose. Most of these deaths are related to methadone prescribed with other medications that react as additives with the methadone. Diversion of methadone is a serious problem because it lands t hi s most deadly drug on streets. Statistics also state that methadone is contributing to more deaths nationwide then heroin and only second to cocaine deaths.

The potential of abuse, diversion, and overdose to new patients being prescribed methadone is overwhelming. The unique properties of methadone, it's long half life, and it's negative interaction with numerous drugs make it an optimal choice as a last result treatment for chronic pain and addiction.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.

Sincerely

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www.HARMD.org

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