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Methadone Clinics Cause of Drug Addiction
Addicts wait in line for a fix
They were waiting for methadone and knew they had to be there because the consequences of methadone withdrawal were too painful to face and they were never offered drug rehabilitation.
On this particular morning, as hundreds of people were arriving to get their fix, several fights broke out because someone broke in line
On the way to the clinic, a traffic accident blocked the street because a young woman who had just left the clinic had fallen asleep at the wheel. The cars involved were totaled and the traffic began to back up in front of the Methadone clinic.
The woman was charged with driving under the influence of methadone - she had just received her dose at the clinic. Later at the hospital she failed for a number of drugs including Xanax, a drug known to cause extreme drowsiness when taken with methadone.
This is not the first drug test she had failed. The methadone clinic had required that she come in every morning to get her daily dose of methadone. This was the result of her failing for Xanax several days earlier.
The methadone clinic claimed no responsibility for the fact she was driving at all. It is not part of the protocol to suggest that patients not drive to the clinic.
Earlier, when this young woman had asked to be taken off her daily dose of methadone, the counselor’s at the center advised her against it. They told her that the risk of relapse on heroin was too great a chance to take and that she should accept she would be on it for the rest of her life. The ball and chain of drug addiction was never to be removed.
When interviewing her friends, it was discovered that this woman was known for coming home from the methadone clinic and nodding out from the effects of the drugs. The hundreds of cigarette burns on the couch were testament to this fact.
They also reported that when she was awake she would call her friends down the street to supply her with Xananx and kolonopin, (both popular choices for the people in line back at the clinic.) It is as though she did not want to be awake for as she lived life.
Methadone clinics are supposed to relieve crime and suffering.
Perhaps the people in the line at the clinic in Asheville every morning should be asked if it is really so.
Narconon of Georgia provides drug treatment and education for the entire southeast region. Narconon Drug Rehab of Georgia is a non-traditional drug abuse treatment program.
