When someone has had enough drugs and prescription pills in their life and have spent most of the time abusing these drugs, it can lead a person to a very low point in their lives. Once a person feels like they have hit rock-bottom and there is nothing in life worth living for, this is a good time to turn for help. There are a couple of different products that can be legally prescribed to patients in the United States for drug abuse. The most common and most affordable choice for help is methadone. This is a synthetic drug that was created by some very smart German scientists. During World War II, when the German Troops were running out of morphine, an expensive drug at the time, the military leaders knew they had to have something else for pain relief. The task was handed over to the German Scientists who were working along side Adolph Hitler and it was their job, to create a pain reliever, which was as good as morphine, but for a cheaper production cost. And this is how the drug methadone got its start.

Another popular legend to the German methadone story, is how the United Nations was able to boycott the Turkish supplies of morphine into Hitler’s Germany. Since the Germans couldn’t get morphine no longer, their hands were forced into making this new synthetic pain reliever called methadone. Based on the information I have been able to find on this controversial subject, is that the UN boycott played no role, in the making of methadone. The Germans had other supply routes for morphine, but due to the price, the military leaders felt confident a substitute could replace this popular pain reliever. So eventually the morphine was not needed and methadone became the drug of choice on most of the German battlefields. Perhaps the U.N. thought their ban on morphine supplies, going into Germany, from some of the Turkey sites was not being delivered. Germany didn’t need anymore opium from Turkey. It was no longer needed to make their pain-relieving morphine, because the scientists in Germany discovered a cheaper way to make a non-narcotic pain reliever and it worked just as well as morphine was perceived to be working.

Later on and long after the war had ended, the medical community began to notice some other important traits about methadone. Not only was it a fast acting pain reliever, which would work longer than most other opiate medicines, but it also cured the cravings for other highly potent pain pills; which could only be obtained by a licensed medical doctor. For those patients who got hooked on the higher levels of pain pills and would suffer horrible withdrawal symptoms, if they didn’t get their “fix” or pain pills. The patients who were using methadone to treat their severe pains, were not having the same cravings or ill-effects, that other patients were having to deal with. So doctors began to experiment and only looked at patients who were taking strong levels of narcotics to treat pain and began substituting their pain relievers with methadone. A lot of the patients continue to hurt and the methadone didn’t prove to be a good pain reliever for the most severe patients, but these patients did avoid the withdrawal symptoms and cravings from their normal doses of narcotics they were taking for pain relief. So this is how methadone got it’s start as a way to help treat addicts, who are no longer in pain, but want to help them get off the drugs, with the least amount of withdrawals and sickness as possible. Some doctors still prescribe methadone as a pain reliever or prescribed it with another pain reliever, so it can be used as break-through pain.

Patients who seek a prescription of methadone for substance abuse, can not legally be given the methadone by a general medical doctor. Patients who need methadone to come off of other pain pills and illegal street drugs, must attend a methadone clinic and can begin an outpatient program, where the patients come in daily for their doses. They can work their way up and become methadone graduates and be allowed to take home future doses, without attending the clinic every day. Patients must follow through with counseling and drug tests, for them to graduate from one level to another level. Eventually the patient could become graduated to the highest level, of 1 trip per month and be given a month supply to take home.

Patients at the clinic get their methadone handed to them with some water. The methadone can be dissovled in the water, until you have a liquid methadone form and then the patient can drink this down. There is other liquid forms and methadone pills that patients can get, once they began a treatment plan for methadone. Doctors who prescribe methadone for pain, will write out the prescriptions for the methadone pills; which is normally a slower acting way to administer methadone. The liquid form can hit patients a lot quicker and a lot stronger and usually this kick within the first 4 hours, is what helps drug addicts to cure their craving for other pills. Both forms of methadone can last from a half day of 12 hours or as long as 40 hours for just 1 dose. It usually depends on how fast a person’s metabolism rate is working, which will determine how long the methadone will ultimately last. The higher doses of methadone, do last for greater amounts of time.

For patients who begin a treatment plan with methadone being part of that plan, should rely on their counselors for the most help to a full and long-lasting recovery. Your counselors are the main part of your recovery process. If you’re not getting along with your counselor, be sure to switch. Any methadone clinic will allow you to change to a new counselor, because they know this is the most important part to your goal of being drug-free for life. The methadone doses in the morning are just a small part of the plan. You are given the methadone to help you think more clearly and to prevent you from feeling sick all of the time. When you’re not sick, you can plan your future better and you will want to discuss these life changing choices in your life, with your counselor on a regular basis. It’s the counselor that will help you the most at the clinic and it’s not the daily methadone doses. The sooner patients realize this, the sooner they can get on with their recovery process.

Here’s to your health and may God be with you, as you begin your long and painful journey, to a new life of beig drug free. Good luck and you can do this! You already made a great choice, by seeking out more information about methadone online.

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