Opioids Why Opiate addicts opt for Methadone?

[lolwhatzdrugs]

^Progressive countries like Switzerland, the Netherlands, etc, have been operating those safe injection sites for a long time now, and a small percentage end up being prescribed pharmaceutical diacetylmorphine, it's not common, it's HIGHLY/STRICTLY regulated, and IIRC, if it's all free. Free clean syringes, free prepping stuff for those who aren't legally prescribed the heroin so like SteriCups since a lot of european heroin requires ascorbic acid (Like 2% of the solution, like barely any is needed...), the sterile citric acid / pH adjustment required by Heroin #3, free testing for the common big bad ones: HIV, Hepatitis-C, liver and kidney function, counseling, safe disposal of all the used syringes, they even have near-micron-quality but not really from a purely statistical perspective, alhough they are indeed sterile compressed cotton filters, like SteriFilts, and the SteriCups I mentioned are like...... 100000000x better than the USA's policy which has addicts using HORRIBLE cookers like the bottom of aluminum cans, bottlecaps, things that leach carcinogens (particularly with BPA and plastic shit).

Reminder: NEVER APPLY HEAT TO AMERICAN HEROIN. ONLY EUROPEAN HEROIN REQUIRES A pH ADJUSTMENT (citric) + GENTLE heat to work well.

I was under the impression the boiling in the cooker killed bacteria?

 

[K-OSS]

Yes, this is why I say, give the heroin addicts the heroin rather then giving them something else which has a longer half life but is as addictive as heroin. I don't mind if someone is high as anything as long as they can function in society like job/family wise. It's easy to make synthetic morphine and its probably cheaper to then methadone.

 

[blue1995]

I've never messed with methadone but was on suboxone for about a year and a half. I was shitty at the end when I had to come off - I think ORT should be for life if the patient feels it necessary. Without subs I'm just back in the finding/waiting/going broke/getting high (yay!)/wd cycle all over again. It's a bullshit scenario. On subs I was quite content and satisfied with life in general, and got shit done. Methadone is not an option for me as circumstances do not allow me to spend every damn day at a clinic 2 hours away from home. A note: coming off of subs is hell -- WAY worse than my original DOC since the half-life is like eternity and then some. Wds, anxiety and depression were at a severe level for at least 4 weeks. Since I went straight back to opiates I don't see how this drug is helpful at all unless, as I mentioned, the patient can decide for oneself when to come off, if ever. Just my two cents.