| > That's the entire point of science Challenge accepted :D Scientific fact 1: methadone doesn't alleviate the addiction. It actually feeds it to the point that it increases the patient's tolerance at which point you have to increase the dosage. Scientific fact 2: methadone doesn't provide the "high". Totally true. That's why the vast majority of patients seek it elsewhere(alcohol, cannabis, etc). Scientific fact 3: Life-long methadone users have relapses more than once. Most clinics/doctors supporting methadone brush it off as "it's quite normal and logical". Scientific fact 4: innumerable people have been able to kick off opioid addiction by following long-term(but not life-long) therapies. General fact: You'd be hard pressed to find a drug, other than methadone, that has been so controversial in its usage. More facts: these panels of "experts" don't provide evidence that long-term recovery doesn't work, but they opine that "hey, methadone is the best, true story.". Show me data, show me science ;) Isn't it way too convenient for the drug industry? Has it ever happened before, I wonder? Isn't it weird that heroin addiction in US has increased because of the gratuitous opioid prescriptions? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/29/us-heroin-us... |