Congradulations to clean time this week!!!!!

[MMT-Md]

Congradulations to you all!! I'm sure there has been some mental bumps and bruises this week, and I'm sure some that have healed as well. Stay strong and surround yourself with those people places,and things that truely care. I wanted to share a short quote by a person who I've learned so much from his name is  Dr. Vincent Dole " The goal is NOT abstinence; the goal is to become functional".
                Take care, Dr.Mike

[mrmichael67]

Methadone can be used for detox, as long as it is done properly.  Many people have detoxed from it successfully.  If you were nodding from it, your dose was too high.  I am sure you didn't tell your doctor you were nodding from it.  Methadone has its uses, and it is not just for maintanence.  It sucks that you had a bad experience with it, but I do hate when I see people propogate the myth of methadone.  As long as one detoxes from methadone within a month's time, they are in the clear.  If one comes down off of it from being on maintanence, then they have to go slow....like 1mg a week.  One way to look at it is that they didn't get hooked overnight, so they shouldn't worry about getting off of it overnight either.  Methadone has saved many lives and is still considered the most effective opiate addiction treatment that we have as far as the statistics go.  It certainly is not for everyone.  I only endorse it as a last resort.....maintanence that is.  I think anyone can benefit from a methadone detox....vicodin addict or heroin addict.  A person who is a 15 vicodin a day user can do a 21 day detox with methadone and have virtually no withdrawal symptoms....as long as it is done right.

[peaz]

Don't worry--you're not being graded on grammar and syntax.  But I wonder (since you're so DARN smart) if you can answer something for me: Is there some kind of  protective law that prevents an employer from firing an employee for drug abuse?  I mean--aren't they required to keep the job open for the person  pending rehab?  The reason I ask is, in the group of Health Professionals that I attend, I swear--I am the ONLY one who was canned--all the rest got a leave of absence and their jobs back at some point.  Is  that  a matter  of the employer's discretion?  Did my employer just hate my guts??  Does this vary from state to state or is it a federal matter?  Who is John Galt?  You have 20 seconds.......

[JSmith02]

AN steel, Thomas? I need a script ...

[JSmith02]

Thanks, peaz. Drug addicts need an steel-plated sense of humor to get by in this world. As for being informed, I wish I knew nothing about any of this. Woops -- Too Late!

Thomas

[peaz]

You are  a riot!!  At least YOU  still have a sense of humor!!  And you're well-informed, too  I like reading your posts.  Good luck in your endeavor.. Peaz

[JSmith02]

I wish the entire medical apparatus were as fun loving as you portray them to be. But Noooooooo! Forge a script and the pharmacist calls the POLICE (again, no humor). The police take you to JAIL (even less humor). The JUDGE (humorless in the extreme) sends you to PRISON (utterly lacking in yucks).

That's the real problem as I see it. No humor. None. Just Silas Marner, sucking on a lemon pickled in vinigar, white coat, DEA badge in one hand, pills in the other -- Fuuuuuuuuck!

Sorry ... that Tussionex post got me jonesing big time. Should avoid those.

Thomas