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What Is Methadone? How Does It Treat Addiction?
This video covers Methadone and its use in Opioid Substitution Therapy. It covers the history and use of Methadone, as well as many common questions about Methadone and Opioid Substitution Therapy.
What is Methadone and how is it used to treat opioid addiction?
How does Methadone help someone stop using opioids?
How does Methadone work in the body?
How long has Methadone Replacement Therapy been in use?
How long does Methadone last and how often do I have to take it?
How long do I need to be on Methadone Replacement Therapy?
Is Methadone Replacement Therapy just swapping one drug for another?
How long does Methadone withdrawal last when stopped abruptly?
How often do I need to visit the clinic for medication?
Do Methadone Replacement Programs kick you out if you relapse?
Can you get “High” taking Methadone?
Is Methadone Safe?
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Komentáře

  • @samanthabrown5871
    @samanthabrown5871 Před hodinou

    Vivitrol was my saving grace! Suboxone was very helpful during detox and Vivitrol just blocks craving it's a form of MAT that doesn't keep you dependent

  • @yuriyardashev9313
    @yuriyardashev9313 Před dnem

    This works tried it few times

  • @CrystalLynneDawnDayChief

    Watching this in 2024 as part of a program with #CDICollegeWESTCampus in Edmonton studying addictions and community support

  • @Kalleri13
    @Kalleri13 Před 7 dny

    If you really have a problem with drugs, this will not work. CT is the only way.

  • @bridgettestewart469
    @bridgettestewart469 Před 21 dnem

    This is the best video I’ve found to understand what is happening in my body. Thank you for talking slowly because it helps to follow along with all the new information. I’m not sure how a video from seven years ago showed up for me now but I’m grateful for it! Maybe someone up above is helping out ❤

  • @ColinMor-fj3qc
    @ColinMor-fj3qc Před 26 dny

    THANK YOU for making this

  • @ravivell8063
    @ravivell8063 Před měsícem

    can u tell how much methodone [ml] should be taken for for withrawal

  • @kimwieczorek1879
    @kimwieczorek1879 Před měsícem

    ❤great tips ty!!!!!

  • @Swenser
    @Swenser Před měsícem

    Problem is Initial condition is still present that made me take tramadol. Can't win no matter what.

  • @GaryGeorge-pw2xo
    @GaryGeorge-pw2xo Před 2 měsíci

    I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to opioid. Opioid addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder, got diagnosed with OCD. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 4 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

    • @MuratBasar-jm9lc
      @MuratBasar-jm9lc Před 2 měsíci

      Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, opioid, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.

    • @Hison-Dcarman
      @Hison-Dcarman Před 2 měsíci

      Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏

    • @DonnDenisse
      @DonnDenisse Před 2 měsíci

      YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

    • @Caroljoyce-mp8sk
      @Caroljoyce-mp8sk Před 2 měsíci

      Congrats! I'm really happy for you that your mom decided to help you. I always admire those who beat their addiction. Knowing it's possible to fix your life knowing there's people out there that have done what I thought was impossible gives me hope I will make it through as well. Those who share their experiences don't know how much it helps when you're about to give up, it gives you the strength knowing somone who actully know what it's like to go through this tell you it's possible, it's not the same somone telling you you can do it when they have no idea what it's like, but hearing somone who knows what it's like that helps a lot since you understand it firsthand and made it out gives so much hope. so thanks for sharing.

    • @EthanEdward-wx7ut
      @EthanEdward-wx7ut Před 2 měsíci

      How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta

  • @user-hq9bf7fw3r
    @user-hq9bf7fw3r Před 2 měsíci

    As I can see only a few could quit these drugs entirely. .or else one will keep on relapsed sooner or later after their detoxing periods. .I mean this could be years after their last doses..but still..I could say this is a lifetimes struggle for every addict person. .

  • @simulki7108
    @simulki7108 Před 2 měsíci

    It's important to me as an addict to feel like i've acually taken something, thus metadhone works really, really well. I don't say I nod out, but I really feel a small effect in my body and mind in the long term, which is enouge to keep me from taking something else.

  • @midclock
    @midclock Před 2 měsíci

    Has anyone tried this with methadone? Months ago i tried to do a similar process, but I think it needs more time than a week to get used to the new dose. Probably the key is divide the dose in 4, it should help to avoid feeling any withdrawal symptom. Also having someone else to talk to should help a lot.

  • @benchippy8039
    @benchippy8039 Před 2 měsíci

    Good luck to everyone trying this technique. The issue I see here is the varying quality of your supply. Even just the psychological aspect of not being sure the fear you have this week is the same as last week is enough to make u trick urself into smoking it up

  • @VictorMacco
    @VictorMacco Před 2 měsíci

    I think your confused with addiction and physical dependency . Anyone can do a taper that's easy. Maybe you should come up with some videos for alcoholics . An easy step down from a few few pints a day till you get to a shot. Easy peacy.

  • @ScottPBrown
    @ScottPBrown Před 2 měsíci

    IBOGAINE .... THE ANSWER

  • @LizCosgrove-dd7gp
    @LizCosgrove-dd7gp Před 2 měsíci

    Can you help recommend any other less harmful drugs to kill the severe pain that the opioids are being used for in the 1st place. The opioids are already being used in conjunction with 3 additional painkillers and anti infammitary drugs to help eleviate severe long term chronic pain. The condition is incurable.

  • @sbyerley
    @sbyerley Před 2 měsíci

    Important: using a pill cutter, even on a “scored” pill does Not guarantee that the medication is evenly dispersed by half. It is possible that one of the halves has 1/4 of medicine & the other half has 3/4. The Only way you KNOW what you are getting is to have the formulation of the dose you want, in a single pill. Pills manufacturers do not guarantee that half a pill contains half the medication. Manufacturers only guarantee that a single pill contains the amount of medication it was made to contain. Please- do not try to taper off by cutting pills: instead get reduced dosage pills in the amount you are using to taper. Example: you taper from 1mg x 4/day to begin, get prescriptions for .25mg & .5mg. Begin tapering by taking ( 1 x.5 + 1 x .25) four times a day. ALL those tapering any med, i wish you ALL the Best.

  • @kategilpin5982
    @kategilpin5982 Před 3 měsíci

    I've taken prescribed hydrocodone for probably 15 years. Does that mean that I'm going to continue to be depressed for years after I quit? But here's my real question: I rashly stopped all at once nine days ago. And I haven't had any noticeable withdrawal symptoms. How can that be?? Is my long usage going to result in a delayed tsunami of hideous withdrawal??? I really need an answer here! And thank you--your videos are clear as crystal and enormously helpful. I probably better tell my doc that, rather than just stemming pain with gabapentin, I should do your taper. And I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to ease my severe osteoarthritis, complex scoliosis, and stenosis . . . . eeeee . . . ibuprofen is good, but I'm not sure how good.

    • @seakseak5766
      @seakseak5766 Před 2 měsíci

      How did it go?

    • @kategilpin5982
      @kategilpin5982 Před 21 dnem

      @@seakseak5766 Amazingly, it went fine. But my arthritis is bad enough that I have chosen to go back on the hydrocodone-they don't seem to have anything better to offer me for my chronic pain. Still, good to know that I won't have terrible withdrawals to go through when and if I choose to cut back.

  • @user-xe3ch4pv6k
    @user-xe3ch4pv6k Před 3 měsíci

    Whoever calls it a bad case of the flu is full of shit and don’t know what they’re talking about.

  • @MartinRodriguez-zk5yn
    @MartinRodriguez-zk5yn Před 3 měsíci

    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO ❤

  • @kevodean
    @kevodean Před 3 měsíci

    just wondering, would possibly pushing your doses further and further apart, say you can last 4 hours between doses, could your goal to be going 6 hours between doses and then continue this process till you work your way down to 1 dose a day and then possibly switch to one sub a day and then stepping down to a half then quarter till you dont even notice a difference and like i said before waiting as long as possible in between till your able to kick it all together

    • @Animal-Reaction-Clips
      @Animal-Reaction-Clips Před 3 měsíci

      If you can do 16 hours on half your dose then do that until yummy can hold 24hr on that dose then decrease again and do 16 hrs until u reach 24hr on that dose n keep doing that until you can reduce to like .02 and then stop

  • @travisclymer2517
    @travisclymer2517 Před 3 měsíci

    Going daily does suck……the long lines and gossip is depressing just being around. The meds itself are helpful though.

  • @user-mackster40
    @user-mackster40 Před 3 měsíci

    They have stopped prescribing lefexadine here which can really help with withdrawal. Yet they have banned it in Europe. Absolutely mad if you ask me. This drug helps you with getting of heroin so why stop something that works and is good. It was originally for blood pressure issues but also helps with withdrawal

  • @joninct
    @joninct Před 3 měsíci

    I'm a chronic pain patient. I get prescribed medications. I have been on pain killers since around 1999, maybe a little earlier or later. I am so tired of going through withdrawal every time the pharmacy runs out of one or both of them. I noticed I adjust to part of the withdrawal symptoms in about 3 days. However, I have been out of MS-Cottin for 1 week and still notice some problems, but only when I think about them. Last week, the pharmacy ran out of both the MS-Cottin and the Oxycodone. I ended up being forced on 1/2 of a 15mg Oxycodone for a few days. I don't feel any different at this point. While I managed to fill the oxycodone prescription, I have decided to step down. I'm going to drop to 1/4 tablet in a week or two, then attempting the elimination of 1 dose every 1 or two weeks. If I can't tolerate that, I'm going to purchase a milligram scale and use your advice from there. Thank you. I was accidently poisoned while working in Algeria and got chronic pancreatitis as a host of other issues. One of my concerns is the opioids slow digestion. In many people that causes constipation, however, with me, it pretty much stops my chronic diarrhea. I'm sure there must be other medications that can fix that though. I want to be free of being treated as a newly released prisoner on probation. Every month (or two) I have to see a pain management doctor. I undergo drug counts and random drug tests. I can only get my prescription filled at one pharmacy and in state only. These are hard prescriptions to have due to the war on legal drugs and doctors. Thank you for the video and advice. I will be talking to my doctor in a few weeks for the appointment made last time I saw her. I never used pills to get high. I just don't think the pain I'm in anymore really requires them. I'll soon find out.

  • @jamminjimmy3848
    @jamminjimmy3848 Před 3 měsíci

    These comments have put the fear of God in me!! I'm home post op and in pain. Taking 1 to 2 - 5 mg oxy as needed. Pain gets pretty bad at night, so I'd like to know I'm safe taking them to get by and be able to sleep. I don't particularly enjoy the feeling the give so that should help. I am however a beer drinker and now I'm on blood thinners and beer is a huge no no! Im guessing THAT is going to be my battle once I'm healed and feeling better. I wish you all strength and determination to break free if you are hooked!! Scary situation for sure!!!

    • @alover5409
      @alover5409 Před měsícem

      If this is the beginner stop now. It will be harder later. God bless I am looking to stop while I am ahead.

  • @director1111
    @director1111 Před 4 měsíci

    10% every week is much too fast, nobody has to suffer. Go down in 5 mg steps. Wait a few weeks until you are comfortable and down another 5mg. Might take a year, but you won't quit in the process because you feel like shit.

  • @awatson3675
    @awatson3675 Před 4 měsíci

    Can you use this for suboxone?

  • @somervillearron
    @somervillearron Před 4 měsíci

    Are you serious methadones withdrawal is so much worse than heroin

  • @somervillearron
    @somervillearron Před 4 měsíci

    The UK just throws methadone at you no option for rehab unless u or ur family have money

  • @alb5632
    @alb5632 Před 4 měsíci

    The way you talk about Euphoria sounds like you're reading something written by Puritans

  • @mickynick9888
    @mickynick9888 Před 5 měsíci

    Yeah right try tappering yourself off when you are an addict no doctors going to give me fetty to get off of it ive een tryong to tapper for a month and a half been sock everyday im going crazy

  • @lilyloveslife2737
    @lilyloveslife2737 Před 5 měsíci

    @BIOFEEDBACK hi.,I've,heard of this method. Thankyou for explaining it. Will this work with slow release morphine? I've saved up 20000mg which I'm hoping is enough. Did you ever work out how many mg's over the 17 weeks added up to?

  • @garychynne1377
    @garychynne1377 Před 5 měsíci

    quitting is easy i've done it a thousand times. i used this techique quit pot first then was doing 20 perks a day so i cut down half a pill every 4 days when i was down to one pill i joined na one night and god first day straight in many years. i stayed clean for 21/2 years then the gov. sued me for 330000 dollars taxes and i started again. i'm sick of cops,pushers and doctors. i don't get high any more. first try great but it is never quite as good again until it is a real bummer. i'm thinking of trying again.

    • @garychynne1377
      @garychynne1377 Před 5 měsíci

      this is hard. i get the idea. i feel confused. whats the point.oh dear. is it to late, as i listen it makes sense. the schedule is hard.

  • @identifiesas65.wheresmyche95

    "Its just a matter or following the dosage schedule, week by week" - do you happen to have a tutorial video on how to just?

  • @Guerrero1187
    @Guerrero1187 Před 6 měsíci

    does this method cause withdrawal the whole time because your taking less?

  • @stevelindsay3643
    @stevelindsay3643 Před 6 měsíci

    It takes self discipline and that's something most addicts don't have. Addiction from opiates/opioids is the most powerful addiction known. I have taken Opiates daily for over 20 years. In that time I have had to go through horrific withdrawal. I have very recently started taking Suboxone at the highest allowed amount. It is barely doing the job but I'm two weeks without taking opioid medication which I supplemented with street drugs, heroin, oxy, you name it, whatever would get me through to my prescription renewal. It started with back surgery that went bad hemorrhaging after back surgery 4 levels of spinal fusion, decompression, bone grating, simulated bone packed around the titanium rods that went up both sides on my lower spine fastened with screws into the vertebra. I was to take a year to recover but had to go back to work within two weeks after surgery thinking I could be careful enough I'd recover. I didn't. Bleeding into the bone packed around the titanium rod prevented it from hardening. Now I had a mass of soft mud allowing movement sending throbbing bursts of pain through my back into my hips and legs. Its been horrific for years. My liver is shot now and lost 53 lbs. in 2 months. I'm very ill. So don't throw everyone into the same basket thinking weaning themselves off is possible. It is not possible in my case. I've tried harder than most can imagine.

    • @educatedcanadian7408
      @educatedcanadian7408 Před 3 měsíci

      Its possible. But it maybe you need the opiates. If you're in pain. I understand believe me I'm desperate to change my life and therefore don't care about the withdrawal as its more mental battle than physical

  • @anthonyesparsen7776
    @anthonyesparsen7776 Před 6 měsíci

    Great video on getting off the prescription drugs ,we need more videos like this to help us get off them, its hard to get off once you are on them it affects your sleep everything, the sad part is your Dr got you accustomed them , you are an unwitting addict thru legal prescribed drugs by your Dr terming you into a return customer

    • @LollypopLollypopLolly
      @LollypopLollypopLolly Před 6 měsíci

      Yes, I am on lots of prescription drugs and now I can’t get off them 😔 I even told my doctor I am addicted but he still didn’t offer to help me off them and it took me a lot to admit that. Now I can’t go 4 hours without taking any or I start feeling ill

    • @billa7606
      @billa7606 Před 6 měsíci

      @@LollypopLollypopLolly I just found this video. I'm ready, would you like to join me? We can do this!

    • @Jo_Jooo-h6m
      @Jo_Jooo-h6m Před 4 měsíci

      @@LollypopLollypopLollyI know exactly how you feel 💕

    • @LollypopLollypopLolly
      @LollypopLollypopLolly Před 4 měsíci

      @@Jo_Jooo-h6m here if you need to talk x

  • @anthonyesparsen7776
    @anthonyesparsen7776 Před 6 měsíci

    Addiction is man made guy's, your Dr prescribed you them and then you became addicted with legal drugs unwittingly a trap hard to get off , don't feel bad it happens to the best of us all classes of people included no holds barred ok , I knowc.any government workers addicted to legal prescribed drugs after having an injury

  • @anthonyesparsen7776
    @anthonyesparsen7776 Před 6 měsíci

    Yup the withdrawal affects everything you do sleep etc

  • @anthonyesparsen7776
    @anthonyesparsen7776 Před 6 měsíci

    Adam has the right idea in here

  • @samlazar1053
    @samlazar1053 Před 7 měsíci

    Moreover. WHY THE HECK IS IT SO CONTROLED IN USA. IN EUROPE ANY DOCTOR CAN PRESCRIBE IT AND PATIENTS PICK IT UP IN LOCAL PHARMACIES

  • @oleksandromealey3923
    @oleksandromealey3923 Před 7 měsíci

    How do you measure out a dose of it comes from the street

    • @billa7606
      @billa7606 Před 6 měsíci

      I assume you're talking about powder or liquid? Anything other than a tablet would have to be measured with a scale. Best of luck.

    • @educatedcanadian7408
      @educatedcanadian7408 Před 3 měsíci

      Yup it depends how you're taling it from street. If it's banging it or snortin or smoking. The smoking part I think I've found a way

  • @itsnotaus
    @itsnotaus Před 7 měsíci

    the chalk effect made the video unwatchable

  • @bobarnold2098
    @bobarnold2098 Před 7 měsíci

    I was a user of maximum patch fentanyl 100 microgram and overlapping at that also oxy up to 80 mg 2x per day. This was for nearly 5 years at the time and I invested in a naltrexone implant that last 12 months, It saved my life! The most difficult withdrawal was leg ache and weakness. For this I found that magnesium salt bath and drinking tonic water was most helpful to relieve these pains. Non users can never appreciate what an addict goes through, be strong try stepping down or naltrexone. 🙏🙏🙏

    • @micheallaymance9866
      @micheallaymance9866 Před 2 měsíci

      • Sometimes i wish that ppl that have never been in withdrawal & its these ppl that are usually the ones that allways have their opinion about being able to stop using "Any" Substance. • It drives me crazy when someone who has never been a addict or dependent on any substance especially Opioids & Benzo's are the ones that either are the Dr., Counsellor, Addiction Specialist. • I was on Benzo's for around 7yrs & this was prescribed to me with Suboxone. Well my new Suboxone Dr., told me i have to stop the Benzos in a 2-3 week timeline. • As You Probably Know, I Told Them They Are Absolutely Crazy - Obviously Have Never Been, Never Seen, Never Research This Topic. • They Are JUST Going Off A 1950's Chart/Training From A Old School Dr., About Withdrawals! • Now When The Actual Doctor & Addiction Specialist Has Some "Personal Background" In This Matter, Which Is Hard To Find If At All!! • These Are The People That Should Be In Charge In Tapering Ppl Off Of Certain Medications, • ie: OPIOIDS: Oxy, Hydro's, Heroin, Methadone, ect.. • BENZO'S: Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Atavin.. • Methamphetamine • Cocaine • Alcohol • Dissociatives • Maybe One Day Someone Will Come Out With A Better Treatment Option For Substance Abuse Or Dependency. • I Pray Everday That Something Will Change For Good In This Life Of Dependency/Addiction. STAY SAFE EVERYONE!!

  • @rodneymclaurin1891
    @rodneymclaurin1891 Před 7 měsíci

    Suboxone just didn't work for me. Thank God for methadone. Im at 135 mg's, only have to pickup twice a week and I'm finally able to have a life for my son and I.

  • @chow.akhlaq_chak
    @chow.akhlaq_chak Před 8 měsíci

    Pregabs diazepam zopiclone U good no love ngee than a week

  • @kalayne6713
    @kalayne6713 Před 8 měsíci

    I need opiates for Chronic Pain. But if they decide I need to come off them, I have no say. I have a life with opiates, without them am bed bound, unable to function.There are no safe substitutes for opiates, suboxone is destroying teeth enamel and a court case is looming. Tylenol, ibuprofen do nothing.Before surgery, I tapered myself down, but without telling my doctor so I did it very, very slowly and successfully. But the pain returned, and I needed opiates again. I am not an addict, I get no high. But I am terrified of doctors controlling my use of these life savers.

    • @nickjenkins1663
      @nickjenkins1663 Před 3 měsíci

      You might want to RESEARCH, and I advise lots of research on kratom. As it too is habit forming. And some say you can't mix with opiates. There are you tube videos that say high doses of vitamin c helps with withdrawals and other minerals and vitamins.

    • @midclock
      @midclock Před 2 měsíci

      You need methadone

    • @sscalercourtney5486
      @sscalercourtney5486 Před 2 měsíci

      Try Cymbalta. It eased my chronic pain almost as well as hydrocodone does. Without the downside. Some say it doesn't work for them, but it worked for me. Take care.

    • @alover5409
      @alover5409 Před měsícem

      I understand bed 🛌 for me too But I am just 😫 tired of them Trying to find another way.

  • @user-fx9tb4xr8c
    @user-fx9tb4xr8c Před 8 měsíci

    Where do I get oxy from the doctors will not help. I live in UK Have been doing brown for 45 years yes long time ha ,would love to come of but can't see any way out, Any one out there got any information on helping me out, Have a good day,

  • @christinafernandez623
    @christinafernandez623 Před 8 měsíci

    😢 thank you for this information very helpful ❤ god bless 😊