Methadone Addiction Please Help!?
Question by jess: methadone addiction please help!?
so i have this friend i havent seen in about a year. even though i didn’t know but last time i saw her a year ago she was doing vicodin at least 3 pills a day and now she has quit vicodin and for the past 7 months has been doing methadone and you can tell when she takes it most of the time because she gets all twitchy and hyper or of she isn’t talking she will zone out and close her eyes sometimes. its really scary and she is going to a 5 day rehab just to get her family off her back but she plans on continuing using after her detox. i keep telling her how she has a problem because she does anywhere from 3-10 pills a day!!!! but she keeps telling me its no big deals doctors prescribes these pills to people all the time. and i have been googling methadone trying to find bad effects it can cause people and the only thing i have found is tooth decay. so i was wondering is methadone even as bad as i think?? and if anyone can tell me if it does any harm to people in the long run besides being addicted to a pill and tooth decay because i want to try and scare her to show her thisisn’tt healthy and she needs to stops but i need to know if it even does any true harm besides dependency on a pill
she swallows the pill or crushes it and sniffs it
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Answer by Kim F
no it also decays the skin. especially if you inject it
Answer by b sheehan
Although Methadone is usually prescribed by a doctor, it’s effects after long term use are not pleasant. Firstly, there’s here quality of life that she should consider. A strong narcotic like that allows people to not feel anything, pleasant or unpleasant. She’s not there for the bad times, but also not there for the good times, either. She is numb to her life.
It does cause tooth decay because it’s a lipophilic opiate, meaning that it has a high affinity for lipids (fat) and fat is usually on teeth. The Methadone will attack the lipids, break them down and cause decay.
Methadone is “said” to be safe to take long term, hence why many recovering persons will take it for the rest of their lives. I happen to think this is not true, and would advise anyone get off Methadone, the sooner the better.
Methadone is metabolized by the liver, so the liver would be of concern. Also, the ability to process fluids correctly is affected, meaning the kidney functioning should be checked, too.
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