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heroin, oxycontin & addiction + methadone, suboxone & recovery
This is the place to leave comments. I appreciate you taking the time to offer them!
I do read and respond to (almost) all comments, so check back for my reply.
Thanks for visiting!
Tom
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bullshit..i have a son and daughter in law who lost their obs..just gave birth to ababy addicted to methadone..what planet or crack hi are you on???????
have a baby that is addicted..watch your kids try to get off methadone..watch them drive three hours every day to keep a baby from dying…obviously you think the crap is GREAT!!! im ready to go to an attorney and sue the maker and every doc in the country who has prescribed it for candyyyyy knowing how dangerous and harmful it is..go to med school and youll change this page
Katrina – It is clear from your comment that you are really upset about the situation with your son and his wife and baby. That is certainly understandable.
I would urge you to make sure that your pain, anger and frustration don’t prevent you from learning what you need to know about their situation. Acting from emotion, without understanding the facts, can really hurt your family.
The thing is, the doctor probably prescribed your son’s wife methadone because she was addicted to heroin or other pain killers like Oxycontin or morphine. Without methadone, she would have had to keep using heroin or pain killers, or gone through detox/withdrawal.
Both of those options would have put the baby at risk for miscarriage. Methadone treatment is used because it reduces the risk of miscarriage and other negative health outcomes for the mother and baby.
Methadone helped protect the baby, and may have saved the baby’s life.
Please consider reading this article about methadone for pregnant women.
If your son’s wife (and possibly your son) are addicted to heroin or other pain killers, you really should read all of the information here: methadone
It is possible that one or both of them need long term methadone treatment. And your negative feelings about methadone may prevent them from trying a treatment that could save their lives.
According to the US government experts at the CDC, methadone is the single most effective treatment for addiction to heroin or other pain killers.
If you would like to chat about this after you have spent some time reading, you can find me at junkjunk!