Confessions of a Methadone Nurse: The Ugly Truth of Methadone
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am the adult daughter of an addict who entered a methadone clinic roughly one year ago and I found this book very helpful. Most of it contained information I knew from experience and/or found already on the internet, however having it all in once place was beneficial and to hear the perspective of the person on the other side of the counter was interesting.
There's not enough talk about RECOVERY, let's change that! - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Absolute garbage. Full of inaccurate information, a pamphlette more likely to drive stigma than to provide anyone at all with helpful information.
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Confessions of a Methadone Nurse - Anonymous Nurse Nightingale
ISBN: 9781483501994
DRUG ADDICTION
Welcome to the world of drug addiction. If you’re not already a drug addict, you may become one. Uhhh ..... not a pleasant thought. As a nurse I’ve seen that anyone can be become an opiate addict. You too may have learned of someone who is now a drug addict, and never suspected someone like that
could become one. Any heroin addict will tell you that once you try heroin you’re hooked. I wouldn’t know myself, as I’ve never tried it; but I can say that this possibility scares me. Hopefully, I will never try it and hopefully you won’t either.
The lesson to learn from this is that you should never try heroin - never – not even once. You should instruct your children to never try heroin. It is not something to play with. It is not a drug that can be considered a recreational drug. It is not a drug for occasional use. No, once you light the fuse of heroin, it will burn and burn and burn until the bomb explodes. Avoidance of the first dose is your single best strategy to avoid heroin addiction.
Today, many people are not necessarily heroin addicts, but rather opiate addicts. And, since heroin is an opiate, the addiction, treatment, and withdrawal symptoms for heroin and opiate based pills are similar.
THE GATEWAY TO DRUG ADDICTION
Over the years it has always been assumed that marijuana was the gateway drug
to heroin and other more dangerous drug choices. This idea hinged on the idea that young people would experiment with marijuana and then graduate up to more addictive drugs. This idea is changing however. The gateway drugs in much of the newer literature, is now cigarettes and alcohol. It now more common to read studies suggesting that parents who smoke have a greater chance of having children who smoke. The same can be said of alcohol. It is true also that parents who use harder drugs have a greater likelihood of having children who also use harder drugs. One might conclude that the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs is influenced more by parental factors than anything else.
Studies have also shown that those who smoke marijuana, usually smoked cigarettes prior to trying marijuana. It is very rare that someone smoked marijuana first, having never smoked cigarettes. In most cases those who tried marijuana, not only smoked cigarettes first, but also had a history of alcohol use. It is rare that someone who smokes marijuana never drank alcohol prior to trying marijuana. This leads to the conclusion that cigarettes and alcohol are the gateway drugs that lead to marijuana use and ultimately to the use of other more deadly drugs.
HEROIN AND OTHER OPIATE BASED DRUGS
As a nurse I often hear stories from people who needed opiate based pain pills to reduce the pain of injury. It could be the story of a football injury,