An article from a Spokane newspaper about how the methadone clinic there is making a difference in the lives of many addicts:
"Amanda Colin didn’t hesitate when Spokane County threatened to cut its methadone treatment program last summer.
She and a group of other patients met with county commissioners to tell them just how desperately they need the steadying routines of that program, with its affirming counselors, its regular urine tests and its daily doses of that cranberry-pink liquid. For Colin, a 29-year-old mother, the Spokane Regional Health District’s methadone program improves every aspect of life". full article here
Peace, Hope and Love,
Barbara
4 comments:
I have seen this help a boy I knew. He was clean for a year and had a full time job on methadone.
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with methadone or buprenorphine is often very effective. We are lucky to have these options.
Counseling is part of MAT programs too.
And residential treatment is very valuable as a safe place for people to stabilize, learn about recovery and begin recovery.
Residential treatment programs should embrace MAT so that people are able to use the full range of recovery tools and not have to make unnecessary trade offs.
You aren't "clean" if you are on methadone. You are functioning, but you aren't clean. I thought the idea was to wean yourself off and be drug free with methadone and suboxone.
I don't know enough about it but have heard some negatives about long-term use.
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