How Is a Methadone Clinic Legal? 2% or Less Success Rate!?
Question by adambiddle03: How is a methadone clinic legal? 2% or less success rate!?
How is a methadone clinic legally operated. I know several young adults that go to a methadone clinic, and none of them ever get any better. Nobody else at the clinic ever gets better either. They pay nearly 500 dollars a month to get high legally. They have no set plan to ween you off. They allow you to stay there as long as you want. If you fail multiple drug tests they continue to let you come. This is absolutely insane that this is allowed by the government. I guarantee you the success rate of a methadone clinic is less than 2%. Sure people are not doing heroin anymore, but they are doing methadone which basically does the same thing. The people I know stay high on their dosage, and come home and try to find more and more. Everyone I know that goes to that place is getting no better. Nobody that they know that goes to that place is getting any better. If you type methadone in yahoo answers, you find a bunch of addicts trying to figure out how to get more, how to sneak it out, if I take this with my methadone will I be ok, how often do they have drug tests at the clinic because I want to get high on something else too. It’s crazy that no one has made this an issue. I don’t think most of the general population realize this is going on. People try to argue that this is junkies trying to get better, when actually it’s junkies trying to get high without having to worry about a jail sentence.
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Answer by circa 1980
That is not true in all cases. I know someone who was addicted to heroin for years, went on methadone to help himself, and has been clean for at least two years off of everything. Don’t assume you KNOW about everyone. Maybe it’s just your friends that don’t want to come off. If they truly wanted to, they could.
I would like to add that not all patients got to bring home their methadone in order to sell it. They have to be in the clinic for something like two years before it’s even considered. They have to actually do the methadone INSIDE the clinic, and NO ONE who isn’t a patient is allowed in there. People who get Hep C from needles were sharing their dope…not their methadone.
Answer by Patrick G
It’s because of the ridiculous “WAR ON DRUGS!!”
The fact is, some people want to do drugs, and nothing is going to change that.
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