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Methadone Detox: Refusal to hire an addict brings a lawsuit
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a Raleigh insurance office for refusing to hire a recovering drug addict who tested positive for methadone in his system.
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Methadone Detox: URBAN LEGEND OF METHADONE with Dr Rodriquez and Delray Center

Let’s talk about the urban legend and myths of methadone. Methadone more than the medication we used carries so many myths and urban legends about it, the most famous ones are that it rots your teeth, it gets into your bones and it’s the hardest one to detox of all opiates. Lets talk first about what’s true, what’s true is that if your on methadone for a long time and at a high dose, it is a harder detox than a conventional opiate that much is true. Methadone detox is possible though but is required additional skill and special treatment but it is possible. Typically a person is either weaned slowly over the course of four to six months probably longer or they are converted to another medication and later subjected to the more standard subutex or suboxone detox but coming off methadone is possible and is possible to do so safely, however coming off methadone is more difficult that much is true. It’s also higher risk for having post acute withdrawal symptoms which is a lower grade state of withdrawal that drags for weeks to months but again If that happens there are also things that can be done to resolve that. Now let’s talk about some of the urban legends that are not true, methadone rots your teeth this is one of the more famous legends that really is not true, it really does not rot your teeth. Now how methadone is taken in the methadone clinic can affect your dental care though and your dental hygiene. Now a lot of this first stuff has to do with clients of the …

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