My niece is on Methadone and has been for 10 months. She has a personality or mood disorder also. She is terrified of going off methadone. Addicted to Opiates, she has used Cocaine while on Methadone.

She cannot afford the methadone treatment ($12/day) and I cannot afford to pay for; plus the clinic she goes to is a 40 mile one way drive.

I feel also that she is trading one addiction for another, but she feels the only way she will not use opiates is to be on methadone, until she can hopefully find successful treatment for her mental disorder, which is probably the root cause of her addiction.

Do you have any advice on how to handle this kind of situation?

There has been a lot of success with a new drug called Suboxone go online and do some research on this drug. It is no meant to be taken long term, (Neither is Methadone in my opinion) and it takes a lot of pain out of the withdrawals.

Nick M.
 

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