Methadone

within the last month. The client reported using meth and heroin and shooting up “speedballs” for at least one week within the last month. Client reported using heroin in order to minimize his chronic knee pain. The client reported attending the VA methadone clinic on Temple daily. Client reported his desire to stop using meth. The client attributes his meth use due to being around “bad influences”. Client reported not wanting to quit heroin but would like to cut back on his usage in order to…

is one of the least dangerous drugs. “Reports at the end of January, compared the potential of death from the typical, recreational use of 10 drugs: marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine, diazepam, amphetamine and methadone. Marijuana was, by far, found to be the safest, even when compared to alcohol and cigarettes” (Shapiro). Alcohol and tobacco are legal and marijuana is illegal, but its safer than both of them so they have to be monitored more closely than…

criteria for inpatient treatment. Due to the minimal length and severity of the majority of the male patient’s addiction careers they are receiving an appropriate level of care in an outpatient setting. Methadone on the other hand is known as the treatment of last resort. As a matter of fact, most methadone clinics require at least one previous treatment failure to be eligible for services. A good portion of the patients at these clinics would qualify and most desperately need inpatient…

Newborns suffering from withdrawal are often fussy and hard to calm down. If withdrawals are severe, medications such as: morphine, phenobarbital, or methadone can be used to wean the newborn. These babies need to stay in the hospital for weeks or months after birth. The reason for treatment is to give the infant a drug similar to the one the mother used during pregnancy and then slowly decrease the dose…

it’s an acceptable habit. Many teenagers feel the need to escape life's problems, but by doing so you could remove yourself completely from life. In 2014, there were 12,159 deaths involving a natural or semi-synthetic opioid; 3,400 deaths involving methadone;…

A major emphasis in the early phases of methadone treatment was the need to treat with adequate doses. The tendency was to treat with lower doses, resulting in less effective treatments. Individuals with a history of cocaine use or use of other stimulants may need higher doses for successful treatment…

Opiate Addiction: Understanding Replacement Therapy An informal lecture by Scott Farnum, Administrator, Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine. Scott talked about how opioids have been around between three and five thousand years. The different opioids lift your mood, helps you feel motivated and pain relief. The natural opiates are more stimulating. It causes your brain to stop making the chemical that C Cells produce. When you stop using these opiates your brain doesn’t turn back on like a…

entering care, compulsive substance abusers are far more likely to revert to their old patterns of use very soon after being discharged (Sober Living Communities and Housing Options. (n.d.pg__). 8. Youth Stabilization Programs The state currently only funds four youth treatment programs, 1 female and 3 male youth residential programs in Massachusetts (Carlo, G, 2010). Limited systems exist for youth with only five recovery high schools in the commonwealth as well . Carlo et al, provide clarity…

Once addicted they had to support their habit. This lead to some of them drug trafficking, thus dumping the drugs into the communities. To curve their addictions, methadone clinics began to emerge. It wasn’t long until methadone clinics became controversial, based on the addictive nature of the drug. Soon after cocaine and methadone emerged, other drugs such as PCP, LSD and MDA began to surface and hit the drug scenes. Cocaine was also on a steady rise. It became glorified in some social circles…

opioid abuse, there is no doubt any question on how opioid use is becoming a major issue in American society. Therefore, it is necessary to question why many jails and prisons have yet to implement or even allow drug treatment programs, such as the methadone treatment program Mr. Mason completed. However, in order to understand why some of these “rehabilitative” correctional institutions are failing to impose or even allow drug treatment programs for many people, it is necessary to analyze the…