idle edsel - Methadone Conspiracy

idle edsel breaks the Methadone Conspiracy story on 1-1-11 in Norfolk Virginia.


Basic Pharmacology:
How Methadone Works?
Part I
Introduction
by
Joycelyn Woods




Education Series
Number 5.1
February 2001 (Revised)

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Joycelyn Woods has a graduate degree in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. She has published in neuroscience journals and is recognized internationally for her methadone advocacy work. She is a recipient of the "Richard Lane Methadone Advocacy Award."


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The Lack of Education

Ignorance about methadone abounds (Zweben and Sorensen, 1988). Stigma and prejudice have kept accurate education about methadone treatment being taught in medical and schools of higher education. The primary source of information about methadone comes from the sensationalized media. Thus, professionals working in the field, supportive services to methadone treatment, law enforcement, health professionals, employers and the public know very little about methadone at all, and what they do know is probably wrong. Even worse is the fact that they don't know that they don't know. And, at the bottom of this is the methadone patient who must bear the brunt of the prejudice and stigma and with no where to turn to. Methadone patients read the denigrating newspaper articles and television reports that disparage methadone maintenance treatment and malign methadone patients -- and they believe it. There is no one to reinforce the many accomplishments of methadone patients or to celebrate the many contributions that methadone patients make to their communities. Methadone patients do it alone, frightened and in spite of the opposition against them.

Academia

Professionals working in the field receive very little, or no training at all about the very medication that they will be administering. The only training that physicians receive while in medical school consists of about one hour spent on the topic of addiction, which includes alcoholism. The disease model of opiate addiction is not presented or discussed and therefore physicians do not see opiate addiction as a condition under the domain of medicine. Their education regarding methadone is usually on its use in withdrawing an individual from opiates while its best properties, that of maintenance, are neglected.

And the few interns who do some into contact with methadone patients are usually on the detox wards with the dysfunctional patients. They have never seen or come into contact, at least that they know about, with the typical working methadone patients. Knowing this it is not wonder that methadone patients are treated so badly by the health and medical professions.

Counselors, social workers and psychologists know even less than the medical professions. They usually receive very little education in basic science and even less about the biology of behavior, or the functioning of the brain. Very often their graduate training is anti-medication as 'just a substitute.' Thus, both medical and counseling professionals have been taught to approach addiction as a character disorder with very little understanding about the biology of addiction.
http://www.methadone.org/namadocuments/es05basic_pharmacology_1.html

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[idleedsel]

i agree with all these comments.  i think if you go in with a good attitude it will help you.

[idleedsel]

testimonials from people such as yourself that have bennefitted from the program. In my group of freinds is a person or two who were users for a year then addicts for two months, and then successfully got out of the program but it took 8 years and I am not sure they are free of the methodone not that there is neccessarily anything wrong with a non-green drug made in a pharmiceutical factory with smokestacks vs. A drug grown from the ground and harvested naturally

[idleedsel]

I am glad that you make a positive comment about the program and have a personal experience. My experience is thru freinds who have been in the program and worry that the clinic might be complicit in the death of mutual freinds we had. So we need more

[fpsZach1]

ignorant guy....

[gasmask2012]

i was hoping at 1:48 that truck was going to hit this asshole. i hope hes just making an example of how rediculous methadone conspiracy theorists seem.

[mhector89]

You don't not have a clue knuckle head it does help.

[3MissMorphine]

DUDE TAKE ANOTHER HIT OF WHATEVER IT IS YOUR TAKING! or maybe a hit of coke yourself! do you realize your T A L K I N G REEEEAAAALLLLLYYYY S L O W........... METHADONE does nothing but make you feel like shit! gain all kinds of weight... you will have no sexual life .... if there is no sexual life what elce is there really for you to enjoy

methadone is a trap and it sucks!

[stephipaul]

dude, u are the biggest dumbass i have ever seen. i hate methadone but i would never down anyone for trying to better their life. get facts before u talk unless being a fuckhead doesnt bother u!!!!!

[AtheistPharmacist]

this is a scum bag-the loser in the mt. dew shirt