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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
What are the most difficult drugs to detox from? The top contenders in the hardest-to-quit group are crack cocaine, crystal meth, heroin and methadone. Heroin and methadone are both opioids, but heroin is semi-synthetic, prepared from morphine, while methadone is completely synthetic and made in a lab. Heroin is short-acting; methadone is long-acting. Heroin creates a powerful reinforcing compulsion to use it again and again in susceptible individuals but certainly not in everyone. Intravenous use produces a rush, an exquisite feeling of euphoria that users covet. Methadone is too slow-acting to produce much euphoria, but it’s an excellent analgesic and MAT agent. MAT stands for medication-assisted treatment.MethadonePeople typically become physically dependent on methadone when they enter a methadone MAT program. These programs are administered in specially licensed clinics distributed throughout the United States. Most states have limits on how much methadone can be dispensed to one person in one day. Average doses probably range from about 60 milligrams up to around 120 milligrams. Amounts exceeding this are usually either forbidden or require a special waiver. Methadone causes little to no euphoria in someone with a high opioid tolerance such as those seen in heroin abusers. It simply eliminates withdrawal symptoms and stops drug cravings. This it does very, very well.Methadone can allow a former heroin abuser to return to a normal life. They get their dose every day and are free of debilitating withdrawal symptoms. Drug cravings are virtually erased, so the person can concentrate on other things. There is
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