Is Methadone Used In The Treatment To Come Off Morphine Tablets?

My ex was addicted to morphine for years. He was NEVER prescribed them, he just used to get them from 'friends' he builtr up an extremely high tolerence, we split up, approx 12 months later he informs me he has decided to come off them, and his doc has put him on methadone. evn back then, when he told me, (i had a great lack of knowledge about this) i just felt he was lying,i had been told he was using heroine off a person we kno. he went mad, the other person was lying, n 'honestly, its to come off the pills, not smack!' that was bout 3 years ago, n he still on methadone! Enlighten me please??? :,(

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Kim, My name is Glenn, I'm a 55 year old man, and I do things completely legally and by the book! I pride myself in that, but then again, I'm a Born Again, Spirit-filled Christian! In other words, I accepted Jesus Christ as my "personal" Lord and Savior back in 1987! I started off with seven herniated disks, Spinal Stenosis and Osteoarthritis, throughout my whole body! My back was operated on a total of four times, but I still had pain! As a result, I began to go to an Orthopedic Specialists' Medical practice, which sports its own Pain Management department, right on its own premises! For me, that worked out great, yet I'd like to mention that for a few months beforehand, at a completely different PM facility, I had been put on Opana ER, 40mg twice a day, which is a time released Morphine derivative, generically called, OxyMorphone. When I got to this new Pain Management facility where I am now, it was explained to me by an M.D. Anesthesiologist that I would be a lot better off if I opted for the Methadone instead of the Opana ER, because Methadone "hits" two pain receptors in the brain, as opposed to "most," if not all of the other painkillers, (including Opana ER), which only hits one! Personally I take 60mg a day of the Methadone, which I divide into three equal doses of 20mg each. The ONLY THING I want to mention, and it's EXTREMELY VITAL that people know this, is that just ONE 10mg tablet of Methadone has been known to stop a "teenager's" heart in his sleep, and kill him, "IF" his body turned out to be overly sensitive or allergic to the drug! So all I know is, either of those two scenarios is what has been known to kill numerous other people who have used the Methadone! ON THE OTHER HAND, even at 60mg a day, it "does" work "great" for me, and praise God, I'm still alive! So it's not ALL bad! From what I've heard, many, many people use Methadone without any ill cardiac effects, at all! As I mention, myself included! My point is, although Methadone works really well (if you "truly" have pain), once you're on it, it's next to impossible to get off of it on your own, WITHOUT some form of real and "reliable" help! If you really thought you'd be able to get through a full five weeks of horrible and Hellish withdrawal symptoms, on your own, then I guess you'd be the exception, and not the rule! But most people, including myself, couldn't even last a few days let alone five weeks! On two separate occasions, I got the "crazy" idea that I might try to go back on the Opana ER in place of the Methadone! After all, I reasoned that the Opana is a narcotic, and it would "simply" counteract the withdrawal effects of the Methadone! Wow, was I wrong! It was like a man on foot trying to pull a dead elephant! I was almost out of breath before I started! I could hardly even last a week, and that was even including the use of OxyCodone provided for breakthrough pain! Yet despite all this, there is, thank God, a surefire way to get free of all narcotics; and one that's even, "easy!" IF you have either $7000 lying around, OR you can put it all on a credit card (which is what most "determined" people do) you can be completely off the Methadone, and any other narcotic, in as little as one weekend! The reason insurance won't cover it is for the same reason that Bariatric Bypass surgery wasn't accepted when "it" first came out! Insurance companies didn't know enough about the procedure and didn't trust it! Not until it was deemed a viable form of treatment for morbid obesity, were insurance companies willing to pay for it! And it's the same here! Therefore, if and when this "successful" form of narcotic treatment catches on, insurance companies will be happy to cover it! But now let me give you some idea how it works! "After paying," you go to a very well equipped hospital type of facility, with an operating room! You are then put under general anesthesia. I don't know exactly how it's done, but your body is somehow flushed out and put through the equivalent of the whole withdrawal process, while you're under anesthesia, but in some scientifically amazing sped up sequence! Therefore, when you wake up, you're completely flushed out, clean and narcotic free; and all WITHOUT having suffered, at all! It all sounds too good to be true, which is probably why insurance companies won't cover it yet; even though it's apparently been performed successfully for many years! I've heard that, right now, there are only about six facilities in the United States that perform the procedure, but I'm not sure of their names or what the procedure is called! I only heard that the best one is in the state of Michigan! That's all I know! So folks, if you're hooked, like I am, or you know someone who is, and you have the money, check it out online! Anyway, despite this "gigantic" answer, I hope what I told you, answered your questions! Please be well! Glenn

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