Morphine Addiction And Methadone Program Posted: 10-19-05 20:17pm
I just found out that my son is addicted
to morphine and has been for about a year
now. Starting next week he will be going
on the methadone program. Does anyone
here know anything about this? Do you
think that he will be successful on
eventually getting of the morphine with
this program ? I am so worried and would
love to hear anyone elses experience with
this.
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shadowalker164
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 175 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: 10-20-05 09:48am
Nelda, addictions of all stripes are tough
to recover from. Your son’s willingness
to be free of morphine and all other
narcotics is key. If he truly wants to be
clean, that goes a long way. But I
don’t know how anyone can judge that
desire.
I myself personally am not a big fan of
substituting one narcotic for another, but
any program is better than none. After
this program has run it’s course, I
would suggest that he find a narcotics
anonymous meeting and start attending. He
will be encouraged to work the 12 steps
there. I am a big fan of that. That
truly is long term treatment.
One other thought, the program of
alcoholics anonymous has a sister
organization called alanon. I believe
narcotics anonymous has a similar program.
You might want to look into it. It is
designed for people like you. People who
love an addict. There you will find a
great deal of experience, strength and
hope.
Richard
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nelda
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 33 Location: canada
Posted: 10-20-05 13:25pm
Thanks a million for the info.I am just so
worried about him.He`s 28 years old and
has been on the morphine for about a year.
He has tried various times to get off of
it without the help of methadone etc. But
has now realised that he can`t do it on
his own.I will mention the narcotics
anonymous to him when I see him on the
week-end.He starts the methadone program
in 4 days so i`m hoping that it will help
him.He has been so depressed and
discouraged lately. Thanks again.
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shadowalker164
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 175 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: 10-20-05 13:46pm
If ii was of any help to you, good. We
try to give back what was so freely given
us.
Depression and discouragement may be of
some use to him, if it helps convince him
that he is in way over his head.
Desperation was a great motivator for
me.
Keep us posted on how things are going,
richard
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a lone
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Canada
Re: Morphine Addiction And Methadone Program Posted: 03-27-07 19:07pm
nelda
wrote:
I just found out that my son
is addicted to morphine and has been for
about a year now. Starting next week he
will be going on the methadone program.
Does anyone here know anything about this?
Do you think that he will be successful
on eventually getting of the morphine with
this program ? I am so worried and would
love to hear anyone elses experience with
this.
I was addicted to heroin
and got off of it by starting the
methadone program. It has worked good for
me. it's not for everybody. You have to
want to get off. Once he's on methadone
the doc can wean him off slowly so that
withdrawl will be minimal if at all. I
believe the program can and does work.
Good luck!
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samantha_07
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3
Posted: 04-03-07 04:19am
Nelda, the most effective remedy is still
your son's desire to get treated.
___________________
samantha
Dual Disorder
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redjohn
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 28 Location: Fl.
Methodone Posted: 04-19-07 21:19pm
Hitler had it developed. Need I say more?
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pharmloan
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Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 3
Posted: 06-19-07 17:06pm
some may say one year is not very long to
be taking the drug, and some may say that
most folks will try other means of
treatment as there 1st attemt however i am
in the methadone maintainance program and
it has saved my life. i was on opiates for
many years and have been to many rehabs,
detoxes, halfway houses, AA/NA, and none
of them stuck for me personally. i am not
a fan of 12 steps. dont get me wrong i
have seen them work for many people,
however it didnt work for me. i am not
going to go into why, that's not the
issue. its good your son is taking a step
at getting clean, is he planning on
maintanance or just doing it for a detox
plan. either way i wish him the best of
luck. he is lucky to have a mom to be
there for his support, and i do agree that
you should get some help for yourself so
you can be more educated on methadone and
drug addiction, there is lots of myths and
much stigma involved with methadone,
please dont let the anti-methadone train
get a hold of you they will lead you down
the wrong path. there are made up of a
group of folks who have lost love one due
to overdose and the person would have had
methadone in there system so they are
tryiong to blame methadone for it when
that was not the problem alone, there is
always otherissues like mixing other drugs
or the person had no tolerance and took
some methadone. or they may have got it
from a under educated dr. trust me there
are some of them out there. But i have
never seen anyone get hurt who was taking
there methadone like they were suppose to
take it. and 99% of the folks at my clinic
will tell ya it saved there life.
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redjohn
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 28 Location: Fl.
Methodone Maintenance Program Posted: 06-19-07 18:55pm
Whatever works for an individual I'm all
for. I don't happen to be a big fan of
Morphine. The addiction is one of the very
worst. The fact remains that whatever
keeps someone off the streets is better
than nothing. I've been addicted to Heroin
on two occasions and I guess I never got
bad enough to need Morphine. Maybe I was
just one of the lucky ones. I don't know.
As long as this guy's getting help I'm on
his side.
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pharmloan
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 3
Posted: 06-19-07 21:53pm
you say you were hooked on herion 2 times
thats weird, maybe you are hooked on
herion if you take it. you took herion for
a period in your life then you stopped
then you took it again. chances aqre if
you took it again you would be hooked
again. i call that addiction. and i think
you meant to say methadone where you were
saying morphine in your post, imm not sure
but i think. but hey if someone can stop
herion and never go back to it without
methadone then all the power to them. for
me i tried to stop drugs many many times
and did so for periods up to 2 years at
the time. but i always went back. now with
methadone i can honestly say as long as i
am taking methadone i dont think i will
ever do a drug.
