Methadone
"Was prescribed methadone for withdrawal symptoms in 1979...and never realised how absolutely addicting this drug actually is.
It can make one sleepy, and it doesn't make one 'high'..at the beginning however it can give what one person called ''a garrulous sense of well being''
It takes away nervousness but then one of the early symptoms of heroin/methadone withdrawal is a sense of nameless fear ..a stomach rolling anxiety.
Over 30 years later, am still on methadone..being ''encouraged'' [is there a choice?] to transfer to Buperenorphine...long term addicts who have made the switch seem to rate the buprenorphine..''clearer headed''.
By the way...methadone needs very careful titration in the beginning..
''Start low go slow'' ."