In UK the treatment is monitored by average people some ex users if i could improve it somehow nobody on methadone wants to talk about anything because the effects are suppressive i was on 20 mils for 7 years yet nobody said get me off it my test were clean but they dont care they'll leave you on it
Can’t imagine the courage it took to share your story. Glad medication assistance is working well for you. What most people don’t get is there is a difference between dependence and addiction.
There's going to be a real wake up call if Sean ever wants to get off methadone, good luck😢. 75% of people on methadone maintenance will be on it for life. LIFE
You obviously haven't read my replies to other comments on here lol. That's me in the video & I've been off the methadone for over 6 months now. I went down 10mg every 2 weeks until I got to 50mgs, and then I started going down 5mgs every 2 weeks. It really wasn't too bad at all. Sorry to defy your "statistics" 😂
I'm sorry to hear that man. I'm the guy from the video. Are you saying that lowering your dose is making you sweat & get sick, or just taking it in general does that stuff?
@@seangriz58hi Sean, how are you? I would like some help. I started at 125mg and now down to 55mg going down one mg every 27 days. I feel okay, but i get frustrated at small things that i would usually just ignore or not let bother me. Could you let me know if you exp that? *Edit misspelling*
@@kayvonpaymard556hmm, not sure to be honest with you. I didn't experience anything like that. Do you notice that it starts *immediately* after you lower your dose each time?
I have been documenting my methadone detox. 160mgs per day to know almost 3 years methadone free. It’s doable!!! Uncomfortable yes…but doable!! Sending healing vibes, love and prayers to anyone that reads this!! 💪💪✌️✌️❤️
@@Mysterious-Outdoors They won't let you stop cold turkey at a clinic. Mine gave me options & I chose to go down 10mgs every 2 weeks. Made it way easier.
Yes it is possible to get off! I was on 110mg for over a year and four months to taper down slowly! I can't imagine trying that cold turkey because the methadone withdrawals were worse than the Roxy's I was on
I was on 120mg and now I’m on 9mgs! Getting down now. The program I’m on in New Zealand lets me drop down to up to 0.5 to 1mg weekly. Slow and steady wins the race.
In methadone videos they don't mention the MG that the patient is on, so weird because I'm always curious about how much they're on. It makes a huge difference depending on the MG amount theyre prescribed to take!
I'm the guy in the video, I was on 140mg. Took me about 7 months to completely tapper off. I've been off for a few months now. Hope that answers your question!
@@mikeyvieira1016 honestly, they weren't too bad. The worst drops were going from 20mg-10mg & obviously from 5mg-0mg. But even those only lasted like 3 days.
I'm from Croatia, my son is 48 year old, the war in Croatia 91-95, was totally fuck his head. When the war is over and him and me goin back home in Zagreb capitol of Croatia he was heroin addict. 5 years on heroin and 23 on metadohne maitnence 250mg a day. Croatia is only country in Europe that you can be on metadhone whole life, people who have 70-75 years is on metadhone. And is not like in USA, like metadohne clinic. But you go to you family doctor and he give you methadone for 7 days, and on the street 200mg of metadohne is 15$. So in front family doctor have more dealer than pacient.
I'm 46. Are you saying he started using heroin in 91? Or 95? That's way too early. Let me guess ... Vinogradska? 250mg per day???? one box is 20x5mg ... 100mg or 300 liquid drops. So, he is on 750 drops??? Or 50 pills?? This is crazy. I never heard someone is legally on 250mg per day.
@@leonnet3883where I live there's methadone at 5% concentration, so to get 250mg, you need to drink 50ml (instead of 250ml, which is a lot). Anyway, it's still a very high dosage, but everyone it's different, there's not too much or if it works.
@@leonnet3883in my area of Washington state they're putting people on up to 300 mg a day. Which to me is criminal. I used methadone to come off fentanyl addiction but never got past 60mgs a day, and barely get out of bed for a month. But very glad kept my methadone ADDICTION at a low dose. A year later I'm down to 15 mg a day. 75% of anybody that goes on methadone will never be able to get off or go back to street drugs only 25% Max will be able to achieve abstinence. Horrible
I am on Suboxone now, I wish I could go on Methadone, but why, I still drink a lot. For methadone, you have to go to a clinic every day for your meds, not so with Suboxone.
now wait till he starts getting all these health issues because of the methadone...and eventuallhy decides to come off ...yeah that future is not pretty .... i wish him best of luck
(I'm the guy from the video) As I've said in other comments, I've been off for a few months now lol. I feel way better. Losing the weight that I gained, have WAY more energy, stomach issues went away. The only downside is my back pain is obviously worse, but I'm going to a chiropractor for that. So again, there has not been any "horror stories" since I've been off. Yea, the first 3 days after I was completely done kind of sucked. But that was it.
@Dumperr414 Bro..... did u even read my reply to that comment? I'M NOT "ENDURING" ANYTHING lol idk how much clearer I can put it. I feel WAY BETTER now that I'm off. For real, it's like you guys WANT me to be suffering. Sorry to disappoint 🤷♂️
@@seangriz58congratulations friend. I’ve been on methadone for a few years and want nothing more than to get off of it. I don’t have any desire to do any other drugs, I’m passed that. Just want off the methadone. Any advice for getting off would be greatly appreciated.
@seangrizi have been on methadone for 20 years for chronic pain from Lupus. I'm tapering off now at 5 mg a day. The withdrawals from the taper hasn't been easy but I'm hoping to be able to get there. I'm very glad to hear you are good!58
Lots of people use medications that if they stop daily, they would be in trouble. Stop stigmatizing addiction. People die because it's so stigmatized and treated lesser than a normal human. You should be happy he's not still in active use and being a burden to society.
@@gingerroot8802 opioids. Some die from stopping wd( j gotta take very good care of yourself like water or you’re gonna die . Be dry very long lasting & painfull.
@@gingerroot8802 medications were talking specifically opioid n specificly opioid withdrawl . Side effects from stopping meds isn’t opioid withdraw so your wrong
Opiates and methadone were the best thing that ever happened to me. faced with an incurable extremely painful bone disease, without relief there was no way or reason to continue on. It would have broken the toughest of sportsmen. My friend said that if you continue to use...it will ruin your life and take all you own from you. I answered.....As opposed to what ? The disease had already done that, I had nowhere to go but up. The methadone program was the only place to obtain high level relief that would make life worth living.. They make me see a mandatory counselor who still forgets that I dont get to detox and be normal. Life on the program is as good as it gets for me, and others like me.
@@rhmower8034 (I'm the guy from the video) Again, not true. Since I got off a few months ago, I'm almost 100% back to how I was prior to pain meds & methadone (aside from aging, obviously lol). I'm telling you, there's a lot of misinformation out there about methadone.
@@rhmower8034 sorry but I disagree. Like I mentioned in the video, I was taking INSANE amounts of oxy and abusing it regularly. Methadone allowed me to still get pain relief without the possibility of abusing it. And as I've mentioned in some of my other replies, I've been off it for a couple months now & I'm fine. No crazy health issues, no lasting effects. There's a LOT of misinformation out there about methadone.
This is a nice video, and a lot planning went into it's production. Like a good TV commercial. Lots of positive selling points. But beware, there is a dark underbelly to CMS. You can get help at a CMS clinic, but you also will step out of one nightmare into another. It's not the ray of sunshine portrayed in these commercials. Your methadone clinic will "own you" the same way your dope dealer "owned you,"and then some. They will pry into parts of your personal life that is none of their business, for example if you want to be a private paying patient, they will still force you to fill out a sliding scale application, and force you to give up private information about your home life, your income/finances, and other extremely private info, EVEN IF YOU DONT NEED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. It feels like a violation of privacy. Stand up for yourself or your beliefs, and you'll be kicked out, or threatened somehow. Methadone withdrawal is far more painful than heroin withdrawal. With an extremely high rate of staff turnover, you'll become close with a counselor, then lose that counselor, over and over again as long as you remain a patient at the clinic. At CMS, everything is extremely clinical, whereas privately owned clinics can be more personal, and have a little touch of home to it. To wrap it up, you can receive some help at CMS, and at the same time, there are some guaranteed nightmares waiting to happen, that will happen, and that you cannot avoid. Just an FYI.
To the best of my knowledge, there are no more facilities open 24/7 because people living around the clinic(s) were complaining about 24 hour foot traffic and "shady" people hanging around.
These guy is good example of someone that changed his life for the better. I read John story and he struggled to stay off of heroin and thank god now that he's clean and here to help others with there addiction.
Your opioid bill created the fentanyl crisis. If you cared you would have gone after the Cartel back then or made nalaxone education a priority. Instead you made some stupid bill that made millions of patients loose valid pain meds and doctors to scared to do anything Where's your state of emergency for Arizona now? You know full well what's happened since that bill passed. The Cartel has Arizona by the throat now thanks to you. The cartel was waiting for something like this and you just handed it over. And here you go, only a few days in office and can't even look us In the eye and say whoops.
Be carful y’all. Don’t ever make a complaint on a worker there for doing something wrong. They will mess with your medication and try to make your life very difficult to the point where you might question your sobriety. There may be some good people that work there but i haven’t met but one or two and they quit. Just rememberer that to them it don’t matter if you have clean UA’s or if you been sober and continue to be for over 6 years or if you do everything right they will and can mess with you and your medication if you get on their bad side. They don’t hold anyone there accountable. If you ask them to you pretty much get shit on. Well that’s what is happening to me I can’t say it will happen to anyone else but just warning anyone needing help and thinking they will help you, you might just getting treat like me.
I choose methadone too started yesterday in the new cleveland heights location waited only like a week and it's my second day on methadone it was fast easy and hopeful to gain my life back.
I noticed it was a couple years ago you left this comment how are you doing today I've been on prescription oxycodone for a very long time and you gain a tolerance and this lifestyle is getting old I can totally understand why so many people are homeless I've been thinking very seriously about trying methadone
@@AtlanticCanadianAstronomy I absolutely 100% disagree. I'm the person in that video & I'm currently decreasing my dose every 2 weeks as we speak. I'm not having any withdrawal symptoms & they're making sure to stay in communication with me weekly. At the very least, with heroin you don't have a team of people helping you through the process of getting clean.
@@roynelson7613 I can definitely understand where you're coming from. If you still need the pain meds to get through the day & don't feel like you're abusing them, I wouldn't suggest methadone. It's analgesic effect wears off after 4-6 hours & you only take it once a day. If you feel like you're becoming addicted to the oxy & are using more than prescribed, methadone is definitely a great method of treatment for that situation.
How do these people look so good. They have all their teeth. Don't look like me or other clients/my friends from the streets. Nick Stavros, how about putting me on here....
That's great Sean I just wish that they would respond to my phone calls or even just answer the phone so I can get my life back too that would be great but to date after months of leaving messages and no one answering the phone I'm beginning to wonder if they even exist. So if they do exist my name is Andrew Wyndham look for my messages to your Show Low clinic and give me a call thanks
Thanks man. Sorry for such a late reply, I had no clue they put this on RU-vid. I know it's been a few years but I hope you were able to get in & get the help you needed.
