[varjag]

Methadone is safer than heroin and is widely used in substitution therapy.

Either way, the bulk of health damage from smoking was from the complimentary products of burning. You ain't getting lung cancer from nicotine.

[slg]

I am not aware of any doctors that would recommend using methadone permanently and and it is only legally available to be prescribed for ongoing substitution therapy by federally certified abuse recovery centers. So my analogy still stands. No one should be actively campaigning to grow the methadone market the way that people are for e-cigarettes.

[malkuth23]

The metaphor is somewhat flawed, but methadone is unfortunately often considered a life long way to manage an addiction.

[bfuller]

You'd be wrong. Opiate maintenance with suboxone or methadone is often understood to be a lifelong thing.

[nasredin]

AFAIK any MD can write a script for methadone.

[mjcl]

Only for pain, not as a part of detox/treatment. Source: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/faq/prescriptions.htm#rx-...

[_Schizotypy]

Actually, you just might get cancer from nicotine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/

[tigershark]

As far as I remember you are getting cancer, although at a lower risk, at least accordingly to some study posted here in the past that I can’t pinpoint right now.

[_Schizotypy]

Here's one :) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/