Methadone withdrawal helps many people to withdraw from damaging heroin use. Methadone maintenance however keeps a person addicted …

I’ve been told that methampethamine addicts who binge use the drug can go on a tweaking stage and its dangerous. Can some explain this “tweaking phase” or provide a nice reference site that discusses this.

Response: cotton mouth, anxiety, paranoia, restlessness

I went to the doctor for help to get through a moderate heroin addiction back in 1976. The doctor put me on 40mg of Methadone per day and referred me to a Psychiatrist who continued this dosage until he lost his licence to prescribe methadone and had to send me and his other methadone patients to the government run methadone clinic. I think that methadone exacerbated my moderate heroin addiction culminating in over 30 years of daily pharmacy attendance and now 120mg per/day dependence.

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