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Methadone is safer than heroin and is widely used in substitution therapy. Either way, the bulk of health damage from smoking was from the complimentary produc
by varjag 8y ago
Methadone is safer than heroin and is widely used in substitution therapy.
Either way, the bulk of health damage from smoking was from the complimentary products of burning. You ain't getting lung cancer from nicotine.
- slg 8y agoI am not aware of any doctors that would recommend using methadone permanently and and it is only legally available to be prescribed for ongoing substitution therapy by federally certified abuse recovery centers. So my analogy still stands. No one should be actively campaigning to grow the methadone market the way that people are for e-cigarettes.
- malkuth23 8y agoThe metaphor is somewhat flawed, but methadone is unfortunately often considered a life long way to manage an addiction.
- bfuller 8y agoYou'd be wrong. Opiate maintenance with suboxone or methadone is often understood to be a lifelong thing.
- nasredin 8y agoAFAIK any MD can write a script for methadone.
- mjcl 8y agoOnly for pain, not as a part of detox/treatment. Source: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/faq/prescriptions.htm#rx-8 https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/faq/prescriptions.htm#rx-...
- tigershark 8y agoAs far as I remember you are getting cancer, although at a lower risk, at least accordingly to some study posted here in the past that I can’t pinpoint right now.
- _Schizotypy 8y agoHere's one :) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
- _Schizotypy 8y agoActually, you just might get cancer from nicotine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/