[Phantoms]

Being addicted to Methadone is pretty bad too I would think...I don't know just curious...Good answers so far...I was doing some reading just now from some blogs of ex-heroin addicts on methadone. The majority of them said that they have been able to quit heroin cold turkey at one point, however no of them can quit methadone even once. Very interesting stuff...one horribly addicting drug for another...

[rhsaunders]

It does not give the high that heroin does, so it is not as addictive.

[embroidery fan]

It's addicting, too, but it's given by a legal source so it stops all the hassles with burglaries to get the money to buy the drugs. It also means there's less of the heroin on the streets.

[semahdar]

Made infamous from methadone clinics the substance, in theory, is used to wean people off of heroin. This is very controversial as many doctors have concluded that you are simply substituting one drug for another and that taking something bad in moderation is still taking something bad. If you snort coke no one is going to tell you to only do half as much. Generally, going cold turkey is the best way to go but the methadone approach seems to be an easier way to go. I will say that as a part of a system of quitting heroin including therapy, counseling, medical treatment methadone can be beneficial.

[dan h]

when it comes to addictions, its very hard to get off any particular drug that has withdrawel symptons. The reason You take methadone is that its a similar drug, but it stays in your system longer than heroin. When you are given methadone they taper you off the drug slowly, so your withdraw symptoms from heroin arent as bad and it keeps you from having siezures from withdrawl from heroin. (which can kill you). The addiction is caused by the heroin compromising your opiate receptor (pain receptors) in the brain