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People on methadone aren't recovered. They are just addicted to another opiate. [/quote]

I am pretty sure that the PP wanted to know your opinion about methadone [i]treatment[/i]. Unless that's your opinion -- that methadone treatment is bad, because addiction to methadone is still addiction?[/quote]

I know plenty of people in recovery that traded addiction to drugs to "addiction" to exercise.  They don't exercise to the point where it's not healthy, but it still looks like addiction to me.  I don't know anything about methadone, but I don't see addiction to something healthy as a bad thing.  [/quote]

Methadone is not healthy.  It is an opioid that does not require injection, so you can avoid needle related problems.  It also does not produce a high like heroin.  Methadone is frequently used to treat pain in cancer patients and as a "harm reduction" medication for heroin addicts.

However, methadone is just as addictive as heroin and harder to withdraw from because its half life is much longer.  Its most suitable use in the treatment of heroin addiction is for hardened addicts who no longer get much of a high from heroin and continue to use it mostly to avoid withdrawal, have largely collapsed their veins, or for one reason or another have tired of the daily scramble of scratching up cash and searching for a heroin score.

It is still possible to use heroin and get at least some high off of it while on methadone treatment.  I know at two addicts who do this.  They try one's belief that redemption is always possible.[/quote]

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