Comments on: Chilton County DA: Shut Down Doctors and Pharmacies?

By: New Press Release from God: Methadone is not the Problem

New Press Release from God: Methadone is not the Problem — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:48:57 +0000

[...] proposed methadone clinic in Chilton County looked as if it was going to kick off operations with little resistance until the politicians [...]

By: The Discovering Alcoholic

The Discovering Alcoholic — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I will not even try to dispute. Unlike the DA in this case, you are voicing an opinion backed with experience, not a political statement based on misconceptions.

I also think that sobriety and recovery are true gifts in life, and that’s why I am at the clinic every week spreading the recovery word. Pain killer addiction has become a scourge here in the South, doctors have been handing out these things like candy for years and there are those “patients” that have become adept at scamming these doctors. Society is just now realizing the problem as rampant, yet the stigma of drug addiction is blinding the public from the realities of the situation.

I do not advocate MMT as the final solution, but instead as the first step toward recovery. Most of these people do not have the opportunity to go to rehab so MMT is their only choice. Sure there will be people who never take another step, but I am there for those who want to try.

By: The Discovering Alcoholic

The Discovering Alcoholic — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

about spelling because I am a repeat offender myself, but that one just seemed funny so I pointed it out.

By: oceanshaman

oceanshaman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The law is often an ass . . .

Politics makes it a bigger ass . . .

By: mamampj

mamampj — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I love any post that performs a brutal smackdown on misspellings. There may be some addicts out there somewhere with a heroine addiction, but like you, I doubt anyone would prescribe methadone to treat that.

By: Jaded

Jaded — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

prescription drug abuse relief and I have some experience in that and within a rehab situation only then should it be used for heroin relief because I have seen over the years of my sobriety that methadone just becomes the next drug of choice for those attending daily clinics to get it. Sobriety is a gift that is wanted and should not be used as a means to move from one form of addiction to another…just my opinion.

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

By: The Discovering Alcoholic

The Discovering Alcoholic — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

but not with the demagoguery of the issue.

By: gordman

gordman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am sorry to hear about this, we are surrounded of stupid limited people that take the lead and do things by the letter. In such cases human kind doesn’t really matter, it’s quite paradoxical but it’s the true. Again, I am sorry to hear about this…

By: Cowboy

Cowboy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The biggest problem with methadone Clinics are Clients that refuse to stop using other drugs. such as POT BENZOs COKE ALCOHOL. All the methadone given in Clinics in alabama is liquid. (98% of the Methadone in volved in street arrest is in pill form.) Probaly Stolen from a Grandma on Hospice or Home Health or gotten from a private Phy or a Pain Clinic. Methadone treatment can and does work but just like drug free treatment it works if you work it. Methadone is a cruth to use until you are ready to deal with the pain and learn how to walk again. Unfortunatly it is very profitable to keep people on methadone for as long as possible. So this too often overides the genuine concern for a clients health and happiness. If I were to work in a clinic it would be my goal to help each client to stabilize on methadone then begin a slow steady detox and when problems or pain come up i would help that individual learn how to deal with them if possible with out going back up on methadone or using other drugs. But that is why i will probaly not ever have a job in methadone. I know a lot of people who work in clinics and I would put them up against any staff at any drug free program. There are things on both sides that I do not agree with but they are both fighting the same battle.and we should not have to fight the legal system just because the legal system does not fully understand!

By: The Discovering Alcoholic

The Discovering Alcoholic — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I will give props to the SCTC though because they allow my weekly recovery classes and know that I advocate tapering when appropriate.

The thing that really gets me though is that sometimes the politicians and those in the legal system do understand and refuse to learn more becacuse the facts just don’t fit their agenda.