Author: travispnorton
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:08 pm
| indigochild wrote: |
| fact= done kills pain for 6 hours- i hope you don’t have pain the other 18. i made this mistake and now get done as a presciption. |
I have to say that this was absolutely true for me. MMT isn’t meant to be a program to treat chronic pain, it doesn’t work pharmacologicaly number one because methadone only has a 6, MAYBE 8 hour analgesic effect. Methadone cannot be prescribed by a Dr. to treat addiction but can certainly be prescribed for pain. I made a similar mistake in going into a MMT program because I ‘couldn’t handle having a months worth of RX’s,’ but almost instantly I realized that I had to continue to use other drugs on Methadone anyway because its analgesic effect only lasted a few hours. By the end of my time on Methadone Maintenence I was taking Methadone, Morphine, Oxycodone, Valium, Soma and Klonopin. At that point all methadone was doing for me was drastically increasing my tollerance and making the other meds I took less effective and essentially keeping me in active addiction. Methadone needs to be dosed at LEAST two times daily to be effective as a painkiller.
-Travis
