Methadone - a Comparison to NRT
June 16th, 2009 | Published in How I Kicked The Habit
Maybe you have heard of methadone being a common treatment used to treat “recovering” heroin addicts.
Methadone is what is called a “heroin substitute”. Many heroin addicts who want to clean up their act will get a place in a hostel and be entitled to a regular dose of methadone. It’s not the same thing as heroin but it will feed their addiction and stop them needing heroin.
It’s really just a poorer cousin though - many reforming heroin addicts who are taking methadone will still take heroin occasionally when their willpower fails. They may not be lying and cheating and stealing anymore and from the outside at least, it will appear that they are better off but make no bones about it, they are still addicts. In fact, methadone is reckoned to be even more addictive than heroin itself.
Does some of this sound familiar to you? NRT, like methadone, is just another way of feeding the same addiction. Many drug agencies are now openly admitting that methadone is not the solution ending the addiction of a heroin junkie. In fact, some addicts will even sell methadone and hope to trade in the proceeds to buy more heroin.
