What if you're in a horrible car crash. You are given morphine. You have been sober for years. Does the opiates your taking for your injuries somehow make you any less sober than the day before you were hit by a car and were put in an ambulance?
It is a rather extreme example, but I use it to make the point clear. Sobriety is about far more than using or not using, although of course that does count for a lot - particularly early in the process. But what I'm really highlighting is, you are being prescribed opioids in that scenario for legitimate medical reasons and, hypothetically at least (as the vast majority of people stuck in the hospital for majors injuries do) using them as prescribed. So what about taking methadone, another legitimate form of medical intervention, taken as prescribed?
They me be clearer: That is fucking bullshit. You're taking a medication as prescribed as part of a treatment that is over 10 times as effective as the standard abstinence only approach (including abstinence only inpatient rehab). Fuck the haters, they are just ignorant of modern medical science (which is sad, because this has been well known about methadone treatment for the last 30+ years).
Where are these people who belittle your chosen avenue in recovery from? Just people you know, or part of some twelve step community, or from somewhere else. I wish people like that would pull their heads out of the sand and simply compliment people such as yourself and myself who are finding and have found lasting success with MAT, but no. They gotta put MAT down to make themselves feel better about how they did thing - or perhaps they truly are just well meaning ignorant individuals?
Sorry, I get a little heated about this kind of small minded bullshit sometimes.
