MMT or is it RAT ?
Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Term used for the addiction treatment clinics.
Replacement Addiction Treatment (RAT) Term describing a more accurate picture of the MMT's.
Prescription Addiction In America
Addiction to prescription drugs has swept our nation at an enormous rate. Victims are exceeding the numbers of previous illicet users. The starting age for use of these legally prescribed drugs is alarming. These are not drugs that are smuggled across our borders but are manufactured and distributed right here under the laws that protect this practice. Some of these same drugs are lethal in therapeutic doses, especially Methadone. The growing form of treating addiction is through clinics that use Methadone as a replacement for the addicts drug of choice. Methadone is a Schedule II narcotic on the same level as Morphine, Demerol, Dilaudid, OxyContin, Percocet and others. It is a highly addictive narcotic that is often described as being much harder to withdraw from then Heroin.
Controversial or Contradictive ?
Methadone may go down in American history as the most contraversial drug known as there are many who argue the drugs safety and effectiveness. As well as the clinics intent to free these patrons from their addiction. This form of treatment raises questions to it's ability to successfully produce the product of their claims. Few actually leave to become "drug free" from the system that has brought nationwide attention.
Clinical Claims and Reasoning Behind Opening a Facility:
1) Methadone clinics aid in reducing area crime rates.
2) Methadone clinics aid in taking the drug addicts off the streets.
3) Methadone clinics help reduce HIV/AIDS
4) Clinical patrons become productive citizens to the community.
After almost two years of researching these practices MAMA has arrived at our own
opinion. This comes from contact with clinic workers, literature provided by these facilities, forums, blogs, news articles, interviewing former methadone treatment user's and spending time with the addicts themselves.
Methadone clinics in reality:
Are far from what they claim when they are offering their sales pitch to communities and often the news media. Even the user's themselves paint a very rosie picture and will often go to extremes to make claim of this wonder drug that is noted for saving lives.
"Saving lives" has two meanings currently being used in regards to Methadone. MAMA's version describes eliminating the untimely deaths of those being associated with this drug. The death tolls are rising at an atronomical rate with no relief insight.
Pro-Methadone advocates call "saving lives" as an addict by replacing a drug to ease their cravings which in a few cases allows them to continue a normal life from what they were previously accustomed to.
Page is under contruction and will be completed soon.
This is a conclusion of months of research into the activity of these clinics
and their patrons.
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