SHOULD I SEEK METHADONE?

[ryen79]

Hi folks.  

I'll try to keep this short.  Im 30.  I have had drug and alcohol problems for ten or twelve years and been to treatment twice, most recently last year when crack cocaine got out of control.  I drank every day from November to September this year, and i take codeine now and i have slowly been able to eliminate alcohol from my routine and my desire to drink is almost gone. I have used needles a few times with oxy and i had a percocet habit which i kicked 2 years ago.  I have always had an active substance in my life to resort to, and i think i always will have to.  My main problem is depression and anxiety, though i have had more than a few psychotic episodes where i was hospitalized for weeks at a time and i have had ECT treatments for a severe depressive episode in 2002.
  I am using OTC tylenol ones, and take out the acetaminophene and mixing the remaining codeine.  I have been doing this heavily for about six weeks.  I crush on average about 50-75 pills a day.  Yesterday was a holiday and i ran out, and i had a very hard time dealing with the effects of not having any codeine in my system.  Should i seek methadone??  Thanks

[chemister]

Hello... I am on Methadone now, and it's my second time. All I want now is to stop.
If you have to start I would tried Subutex, before Methadone. I want to go back to Subutex or get kleen. I was on Subutex before Methadone and It's much better to use for long time, you feel more normal with another people, energi, sex-drive.................
Good Luck.

[feohmoon]

I would not recommend methadone either...it is a rough one to get off of and it seems to suck the life out of you.  I agree with everyone that aftercare can help you develop skills that you need to address your underlying issues that cause your addiction.  Switching addictions will not help you...please consider all the advice you are receiving and best of luck to you.

[gnarly_1]

HI.....well you sound like a typical addict going from one vice to the next....I did it myself for many years also dident get into opiates till I was 30 then had a 16 1/2 yr run on them
the last 6 1/2 yrs was on methadone....after being on it I could never recommend it to anyone way to many side effect and the withdrawal is probably the worst one out there
your best bet is just to get off of what your on weather it be a C/T jump and be sick for about a week or a slow taper and be sick for a wile but not as sick...ether one will get you there
methadone is not a get out of jail free card it has its vices now if your slamming heroin its better then that but what is really going to change your life is aftercare I use N/A and A/A 5yrs6mo ago to break free from alcohol weed and everything else recreational for my methadone addiction a substance abuse conslor has been the right fit I will be a yr clean in 7 days from methadone you need to treat the illness or your just going to stay on the mery go round going from addiction to addiction it is the very way we think that needs to change with aftercare that can happen I wish you the best of luck breaking your addiction stay away from methadone good luck and God bless.....Gnarly    

[dominosarah]

Good advice Wolf~~~~sara

[Wolfmedicine]

Have you had treatment for depression and anxiety?  This is probably what drives you to get high and mask the real issue.  Methadone will not help that.  Likely you will become a Methadone addict and continue to seek other drugs when the Methadone only makes you feel normal, not high.  You then end up with a double habit.  I've done it.  Methadone is extremely difficult to get off.  Pleaase don't get on it.