Yeah luckily I was arrested with a take home bottle on me and I used my frist phone call to call my clinic, thank god ( is it aginst the rules to give the clinics name?) is open to 6pm. I couldn't believe how many inmates where on methadone. When I was down in that underground waiting area where u go for intake and wait 4 hours to see a Dr. For a 30 second visit then go back out and wait 2 more hours to see the shrink, the few people who tried to converse with me, all asked what I was arrested for, where I lived and if I was on methadone. Trust me I cannot tell you how grateful I was that I got my methadone in jail I was not looking forward to detoxing in county. I think they don't keep you on msintainance they reduce your dose over 21 days, at least that's what I was told fortunately I was out within 24 hours. I've been on and off methadone since I was 22 and I was in wanye co jail who dosent care if anyones on methadone and was 2 weeks sick before I got out of jail n oozed my way to the clinic.I know very well the evils of methadone but if u live in Chicago it's a gone once you get on the liquid handcuffs and I pay 50 dollars a week to stay fixed on MMT vs 50-100 aday on dope. However on the downside I've kicked dope cold turkey and after 5 days of insanity on the 6th day I still felt like SHIT but compared to the previous 5 days I felt a million times better. With methadone there's no 5 days of hell cold turkey jail detox there's 3-4 weeks of awful sickness. I've had ppl tell me that even though methadone WD last longer it's milder and easier well maybe that was true 20 years ago when most clinics where state/county run and states had rules about how high dosages could go ( for a long time in NY the ceiling was 80mgs and in NJ is was a 100mgs) now that almost all clinic are private for profit and those dosage rules are gone there's lots of MMT patients on 150mgs and up. Guy in front of me in line yesterday was on 280mgs aday. So don't tell me that kicking 200+mgs of methadone CT is milder then kicking dope CT and unlike dope with methadone you can drive your habit as high as you want for around 50 bucks a week n it cost the same to be on 50mgs as it does 250mg