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Is methadone used for heroin withdrawal?

April 26, 2017heroin methadone Used withdrawal

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Is methadone used for heroin withdrawal?

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Although it is used for withdrawal, it isn’t its main use. Opiate addicts have withdrawn many, many times. Withdrawal isn’t the problem. Staying off opiates is the problem. Methadone’s main purpose is to replace the endorphins that opiate addicts’ dysfunctional opiate receptor ligand system no longer manufactures (or manufactures to a lesser degree than the “average” person). Methadone is mainly used as a maintenance medication, and it is used to maintain those who have taken too many short-acting prescription opiates also.