Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 12:13pm.
In response to the Methadone issue in the Fort Frances Times. I would like to comment..
I am an Addictions Cousellor from Southern Ontario but originally from Fort Frances, Ont. I have worked in the field of addictions for the past 15 years and have not seen the sucess stories that the person wrote about in regards to Methadone as a way to help the addicts.
Sorry, but I do not agree with those numbers of sucessful stories in the Methadone program.
I have seen clients complain the methadone is not working for them and the doctor ups their dosage now how sucessful is that? Its easy! Its a dependency like drugs.Addicts know the games, they tell me its easy to abuse the system.
We can argue about this issue till we are blue in the face but the bottom line is REALITY. Methadone does not work! I see it, I don't recommend it to my clients, but I dont stop them either, they make that choice.
My sucess stories are clients that walk out of treatment clean and sober, CLEAN, free from any drug. I have seen those clients, they attend NA or AA meetings and go for couseling and work at changing their lives without going to the methadone clinic selling their fix for something else.
Now isnt that a much clearer picture.
No need getting verbally abusive, we are all allowed our own opinion, and I thank you for allowing me to share mine.
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No need to get verbally abusive!
In response to the Methadone issue in the Fort Frances Times. I would like to comment..
I am an Addictions Cousellor from Southern Ontario but originally from Fort Frances, Ont. I have worked in the field of addictions for the past 15 years and have not seen the sucess stories that the person wrote about in regards to Methadone as a way to help the addicts.
Sorry, but I do not agree with those numbers of sucessful stories in the Methadone program.
I have seen clients complain the methadone is not working for them and the doctor ups their dosage now how sucessful is that? Its easy! Its a dependency like drugs.Addicts know the games, they tell me its easy to abuse the system.
We can argue about this issue till we are blue in the face but the bottom line is REALITY. Methadone does not work! I see it, I don't recommend it to my clients, but I dont stop them either, they make that choice.
My sucess stories are clients that walk out of treatment clean and sober, CLEAN, free from any drug. I have seen those clients, they attend NA or AA meetings and go for couseling and work at changing their lives without going to the methadone clinic selling their fix for something else.
Now isnt that a much clearer picture.
No need getting verbally abusive, we are all allowed our own opinion, and I thank you for allowing me to share mine.