Methadone

Medically-Assisted Treatment: Methadone Titration Counseling Group Medically-Assisted Treatment (MAT) has been and continues to be a viable treatment option for individuals with opiate use disorders. The use of opiate-agonist medications, such as Methadone, have been incorporated into treatment programs to provide an alternative to abstinence-based treatment models. While Methadone has been proven successful in “reducing drug use, drug-injecting behaviors, drug-related HIV, and in improving relationships within families among heroin users,” tapering, or titrating, off Methadone, comes with its own set of obstacles and individual needs (Potik, Abramsohn, Peles, Schreiber, & Adelson, 2011, p. 286). This paper will outline a proposal for a counseling…

Methadone revolutionized the treatment of opioid addiction in the 1960s by providing the first effective, practical, and legal alternative to detoxification. Detoxification is generally inadequate on its own to provide lasting sobriety because most addicts eventually relapse without additional treatment. Medication-assisted treatment with methadone provided the first legal treatment that was effective in reducing relapses. Treatment with methadone also reshaped our understanding of opioid…

giving methadone to drug addicts a good one? Methadone Maintenance Treatment is a very controversial topic that arises many opinions about the program. Some people believe that Methadone treatment is a good thing and that it does truly help addicts get over their addictions, while others are against the use of Methadone as treatment because they believe that it is not very successful and a waste of money. I personally am against the use of methadone because it does not stop addicts from…

Gavin Bart’s journal article Maintenance Medication for Opiate Addiction: The Foundation of Recovery provided the scientific information regarding how methadone works to reduce heroin withdraw symptoms once it is ingested into the human body. Bart’s article provided descriptive information on the typical methadone dosages used. This article was the only article to provide information dosage information and information about the possible serious side effects of lethal respiratory suppression. The…

its success rates and without funding this program might die off and not get an opportunity to help other users nationwide. The documentary also talked about methadone clinics. According to Methadone.US (2016), Methadone is described as a manmade opioid in which sticks to the opiate receptors in the brain that helps eliminate withdrawal symptoms while relieving opiate withdrawal sickness, and blocks the effects of illicit opiate use. Methadone.US (2016) also says that methadone is a…

Summary of: Sex Trading and Psychological Distress Among Women on Methadone El-Bassel, Nabila; Simoni, Jane M.; Cooper, Daniel K.; Gilbert, Louise; Schilling, Robert F. Reading Area Community College Summary of: Sex Trading and Psychological Distress Among Women on Methadone In person interviews conducted on 280 preselected women (mean age of 40) discovered that 32% had been involved in the trade of sex for money or drugs in the prior year (El-Bassel, Simoni, Cooper, & Gilbert, 2001). This…

for Methadone Maintenance clients to name the treatment programs they offer. With a good understanding of the present mission we decided to ask about the agency’s early beginnings and what Dave could tell us about it? Dave took a deep breath and leaned back in his chair as he looked at us with a look and pause of a man who was about to tell a descriptive story. “Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center was founded in Detroit, MI in 1967. Initially, the center was a residential treatment for…

On November 16, 2016, we had the privilege of witnessing a Missouri state board of nursing hearings session. It was an eye opening experience. There were several different violations that we were able to see. It gave great insight into just how easy it can be to lose a nursing license. Consequently, of the six cases that we saw, two cases in particular stood out to me. The first case was a disciplinary hearing. The nurse in question was an RN. The nurse had been practicing as an RN in Arkansas…

wage of $1,241.00. The claimant has been out of work since 2006. On 12/05/15, he was classified with a permanent partial disability with a 75% loss of wage-earning capacity. He was also found not to be attached to the labor market, so there are no ongoing awards in this case. The case came on in response to an RFA-2OP which you filed on 05/22/17. You requested a hearing to address weaning the claimant off of opioid medications based on the 05/17/17 report from your IME consultant, Dr.…

the drug, especially on the streets of Harlem. What Harlem and many other cities across the country started to see was the introduction of a drug by the name of methadone. Methadone was widely viewed by many within the treatment industry, as the cure all drug for those struggling with addiction, as it limited the users drug cravings and would not allow the user to get high on regular forms of opiates. This was because the actual active ingredient in methadone is a man-made chemical that still…