A synthetic opiate intended to replace opiate based prescriptions or street drugs, so that an individual can be slowly weaned off and avoid withdrawal symptoms.
Often used as a fix between fixes. Its not uncommon for an addict to be on methadone and still using they're drug of choice.

Methadone is a strong synthetic drug, first made back in world war 2, to help the germans with pain medication as they had a shortage of morphine.
Just to clear up a couple of misconceptions, no doctor is going to prescribe anyone 120 tablets to take in one day as one person stated here. That confusion probably comes from how methadone is prescribed. When methadone is prescribed for pain it is usually prescribed in 5 or 10 mg dose tablets, and are told to take 1 or 2 as need for pain every 4 to 8 hours.
For those on methadone maintence programs to stay off of other narcotics then the patient is prescribed usually somewhere between 80 and 120 mgs in a methadone syrup, that is taken at once and repeated daily. Obviously when a patient first starts they start at between 15 to 30 mgs per day, and increased until they are not craving for the narcotic of there choice anymore. Its probably the difference in how methadone is taken that has caused all the methadone overdose deaths of late. If you have never taken pain medications b4, never take methadone and never take an amount that someone on a methadone maintenance program is on, as that will kill anyone who is not use to those type of doses. After all, even people who get on those programs are even started at between 15 to 30 mgs and worked there way up. Methadone works great for those who use it right, but use it wrong, and it can be a monster that is much more potent. Use methadone right and it will work for you.
Also if you ask anyone on methadone who has tried to come off, they will tell you that it is one of the hardest drugs to withdraw from, with some symptoms lasting months. Percocet and percodan and morphine are much easier to kick then methadone.

A potent synthetic narcotic drug that is less addictive than morphine or heroin and is used as a substitute for these drugs in addiction treatment programs.

a potent opioid based narcotic used to treat moderate to severe pain;not to be injected,however,used to treat people who are withdrawing from other narcotics(Heroin,Dilaudid,Percocet ect...)

An opiate that blocks the high from drugs like heroin. You'll still feel something but you will not feel that same high and you will not need more.

Metadone does not give the user a high but rather a "glow". That same fuzzy feeling without the rush. Although, mixed with xanax methadone can be deadly (in high doses) and can cause a heroin like high. Which is one reason methadone has gotten a lot of negative publicity and has been deverted to the streets.

Many Drs. are opting to put pain patients on methadone to get out of pricey lawsuits from oxycontin.

Used in place of Rx drug addiction and heroin.

An addict can get methadone for free by going on BHL or welfare, by checking into a clinic. Most clinic have waiting list but will take on as many as a few 1000 patients at one time. It is all given to addicts more discretely through a medical doctor.

Has become very popular with chronic pain patients.

Negative side effects: 1/2 month withdrawal, sweating, and loss of libido.

Not a short term answer for addiction.

A synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in treating heroin addiction

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