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Theres the fact that the addicts using methadone are generally the ones already trying to give up, therefore whos to say pregnancy wouldnt be a great incentive for them to kick it for good. If it wasnt people who were trying to give up, then theyd probably be using heroin mainly and methadone as a last resort, therefore wouldnt get the recommended amount to be effective anyway, might give them a false sense of security.
It just doesnt feel right, and i dont think it would work.
There is certainly an issue about children in households where the parents are addicts, but there are much better ways of dealing with that.
That'n does anyone else remember hearing about the Nazis investigating ways of sterilising the 'Undermenschen' by stealth means such as food additives.
Disturbing.
I see the point they're making - someone whos coming off drugs isn't going to be the most responsible parent. But still, they're making a choice that isn't theirs to make by adding it to a drug which is used for a completely seperate matter.
half the so called treatment isn't needed ...except for the screwed up ones who would be screwed up anyway.
addiction isn't all about weak disturbed people in need.
most of the time it's about dangerous living ...excitement ...excess pleasure seeking.
one modern approach to addiction ...which does have truth to it bit is often used to blanket a whole group of people is ...'you can't help it ...it's your addiction' ...
well guess what ...i could help it.
i was in it becuase i had a love affair with drugs and their magical effects. i wanted to experiment with everything that sounded interesting.
i have always been an excitement junky.
i had a love affair with the whole sub culture thing of crime and money.
no ...i have never been depressed or in emotional need.
crime and easy money ...danger and excitement were my downfll.
no ...i didn't need to share with the group ...i didn't need to let it all out.
addiction has been with us since the dawn of time ...now it's seen as some BIG problem ...a much bigger problem than it realy is.
why only limit it to junkies?
... and also, isn't methadone about coming off drugs - so its targeted at the wrong people anyway, these are the poeple who are already in the process of fighting their addiction off heroin.
Its pathetic. How patronising to the people that have taken a step in the right direction and are trying to get their life on track.
Its like treating them like idiots.
I may be biased in that the 10-15 people i hand over methadone to in a week are all trusted enough to be unsupervised, some only picking up weekly, but they aint 2nd class citizens. Some of them hold down jobs, some have a laugh and a chat with us, one looks after a child, one lady is in her 60's and strolls round the shops with her dog,- these people are nicer customers than a LOT of people that come in.
There are other prescribed medicines where the person taking them has to prove they are using contraception reliably to be able to take them because of the potential risk to a baby born to the mother taking them. If this is the case for Methadone why should it be any different?
Medications dangerous to unborn babies need their mothers to prove theyre using contraception??? Which ones?
Even some OTC medicines are dangerous to an unborn baby.
Roaccutane and other retinoids were the ones I had in mind, I am fairly sure there are others. I guess that that is the prescribers respnsibilty rather than yours.