[Recovering Ex-hippie]

You obviously no nothing about the current, evidenced based treatment of addiction.

Nor do you know anything about the current medically assisted treatment with methadone.

[cherry]

I participated helping with a program for addicts using methadone in a tapering down dose for 3 days followed by inpatient or outpatient counseling....

we'd like to think positive but the success rate was very very small...

[trebb]

Yeah - 30 years clean and sober and I know nothing - I've seen many die because of treatment center after treatment center and relying on "substitutes" as a long-term strategy.

The ones who live longest tend to get with the program by jumping in with both feet, using "medical science" to get through the weaning process and developing a solid relationship with God and helping others with similar problems....I've attended half a dozen funerals from Methadone ODs and that's just the ones I got close to.

Everyone trying to recover has about a 1,000 similarities to others in the same straits and they also have enough personality differences that they have to find what works for them - but they have to be willing to work their asses off instead of trusting their lives to long-term drug replacement regimens - it keeps up the ingrained habit of taking something on a regular basis to keep from withdrawal.

Good luck with your own recovery - hope it is long and prosperous.