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Originally Posted by flat5
. . . . For long term clean up of opiates M. can be useful for people who have real trouble staying away from them. It's the only approved treatment the clinics use. . . . .
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My point, exactly. Detox/rehab clinics use small doses of methadone to wean opiate addicts off of their drug of choice. That's why they don't treat methadone addicts - they can't
give you methadone to get you
off methadone.
Believe me - we called many clinics when my wife's pain doctor dropped her care suddenly. Evidently, he got tired of us arguing with him about how much methadone he had her on, and we wanted her switched back to percocet; so he decided on the day that her Rx was to be filled that he didn't want her as a patient any longer. We had to call over a dozen detox clinics before we found one that would accept her. Even then, they said the best they could do was to give her some meds to control her blood pressure, and some valium to "take the edge off" the withdrawal. Then they released her three days later.