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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
No need to commit crimes, and the person can tend to family and work responsibiities. However, methadone is highly addictive. Taken orally, milligram for milligram, methadone is at least as strong as heroin, and it’s far longer-acting. It’s every bit as addictive, if not more. People on methadone MAT find this out the hard way when they try to quit the methadone. Methadone withdrawal typically lasts at least a month to six weeks. The worst of heroin withdrawal is generally over in about seven to 10 days.It’s always best to stop methadone gradually. If you want to stop, let your clinic staff know. They’re required to detox you if you ask. Make sure they do this very, very slowly. No more than 5 milligrams a week at most. It’s not a contest to see how fast you can stop taking methadone. If it takes a year or more, then it does. The slower you detox, the less discomfort you will feel and the more likely you will stick with your plan. If you find life without methadone to be bleak, it’s not your fault. Changes caused by the drug in the brain can cause depression if the drug is absent, even after a very slow taper. If you need methadone to feel normal, then you do. Opioid use changes both brain chemistry and structure. It is not known if these changes are permanent or not, but they could be.HeroinWhen heroin is injected, it produces an intense euphoric high called a
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