In the latest episode of “Who Saw It
” the case of a girl who disappeared from home with her drug addict boyfriend, after a period in which she too had approached drug use, was dealt with. The later confirmed sightings were in Barcelona, and the two went to the local drug addiction services to receive methadone. The investigations collect testimonies from other users of the service, who often sleep around the hospital or in makeshift places, who say they saw the two, and noticed how she was in a subordinate relationship to him. One of the drug addicts makes an observation, to say how the relationship between the two was unbalanced, and how she was subjugated by him, and that is more or less says “And then he knows what he did
They gave him methadone, but he made her take it
. Understand
”.
Said like this, it leaves a little surprised. It might seem like an act of generosity: if methadone serves both of us as a medicine, he gives her part of her, or part of her of hers. For how the anecdote is told, however, we understand that the sense is opposite of her: he took advantage of her weakness and “fed” her the methadone that he should have taken as a medicine.
What is methadone used for
It has two uses, one against withdrawal, for those accustomed to using heroin. The other is therapeutic use for drug addiction, in order to suppress the uncontrollable instinct to take heroin, and this is an effect that requires a certain dose. The anti-abstinence doses are low and act immediately, to have the effect on the desire for heroin it takes much higher doses, to be achieved gradually, as well as gradually reaching the goal.
Addicts, left to their own devices, tend to make improper or limited use of methadone. They use it against withdrawal, so maybe not always but only when they don’t have heroin. Or, they use it to avoid wasting heroin on withdrawal, and use it to feel the narcotic effect, which is what interests them. To do so, the doses of methadone must be low, because with high doses the effect of heroin is “blocked”. Therefore, if there are two drug addicts, it may happen that one of the two, overbearing, wants heroin all to himself, and therefore forces the other to be content with not getting sick, not having abstinence, using methadone, while the ‘purchased heroin does it all himself. From the point of view of a drug addict this is a bullying behavior: she begged for alms, the money was for heroin, which, however, mostly went to him, while she took the methadone with which at least she was not sick. It is not uncommon for addicts to take only part of the dose of methadone, and keep the other one for when they find no heroin, while in the meantime they take “just enough” methadone so as not to go into withdrawal, but “little enough” to to be able to do heroin and feel good. Far from being a “substitute” for heroin, methadone is only a substitute for heroin withdrawal, so as a substance it has no appeal, it only has a logical use with respect to its properties. I use that for drug addicts and limited to abstinence, for doctors and also against the instinct to take drugs of heroin. It is not uncommon for addicts to take only part of the dose of methadone, and keep the other one for when they find no heroin, while in the meantime they take “just enough” methadone so as not to go into withdrawal, but “little enough” to to be able to do heroin and feel good. Far from being a “substitute” for heroin, methadone is only a substitute for heroin withdrawal, so as a substance it has no appeal, it only has a logical use with respect to its properties. I use that for drug addicts and limited to abstinence, for doctors and also against the instinct to take drugs of heroin. It is not uncommon for addicts to take only part of the dose of methadone, and keep the other one for when they find no heroin, while in the meantime they take “just enough” methadone so as not to go into withdrawal, but “little enough” to to be able to do heroin and feel good. Far from being a “substitute” for heroin, methadone is only a substitute for heroin withdrawal, so as a substance it has no appeal, it only has a logical use with respect to its properties. I use that for drug addicts and limited to abstinence, for doctors and also against the instinct to take drugs of heroin. Far from being a “substitute” for heroin, methadone is only a substitute for heroin withdrawal, so as a substance it has no appeal, it only has a logical use with respect to its properties. I use that for drug addicts and limited to abstinence, for doctors and also against the instinct to take drugs of heroin. Far from being a “substitute” for heroin, methadone is only a substitute for heroin withdrawal, so as a substance it has no appeal, it only has a logical use with respect to its properties. I use that for drug addicts and limited to abstinence, for doctors and also against the instinct to take drugs of heroin.
Of course this reasoning and this behavior only makes sense from a drug addict perspective, because those looking only for an anti-abstinence effect, or a generic opioid effect, would then prefer a lasting effect, and without spending anything: they would then withdraw the medicine and would not need. to beg.
It could also be understood that he “gave her methadone” to keep her stunned, in some way passive: the fact remains that by giving methadone to her in theory he is left without treatment, so he would make little money. This is understood from the addictive point of view, in which to take the dose of the other who is “satisfied” with methadone, and preferable to take his own medicine and then not be able to feel the heroin, which one still craves. This paradox disappears in subjects treated at adequate doses, who no longer think behind heroin, but behind their own health. Unfortunately the norm in Italy at least is that the doses are lower than the recommended average, and that the management is done by the drug addicts themselves, when they are still using heroin.
