How long should you stay on methadone

Methadone is a man-made opioid (also known as an opiate).

Other opioids include codeine, morphine, fentanyl and diamorphine (heroin).

Methadone is used to help you stop taking heroin. It reduces your withdrawal symptoms, such as shaking, shivering and other flu-like symptoms.

It also helps stop cravings.

There are 2 main approaches to stopping heroin:

• maintenance therapy – where you switch from heroin to a heroin substitute like methadone, then stay on a stable dose of the substitute.

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• While the National Institute on Drug Abuse suggests that methadone treatment should last.
• The length of methadone treatment should be a minimum of 12 months, but could be shorter.
• The opioid dependent patient takes a daily dose of methadone as a liquid or pill.

You will usually take this long term

• detox (detoxification) – where you switch from heroin to a substitute like methadone, before gradually withdrawing from the substitute so you're completely free from both

Some people start taking methadone for maintenance therapy.

However many of them go on to detox and become free of heroin and methadone.

Methadone is available on prescription only.

If you're having treatment for heroin addiction (dependence), methadone usually comes as a green liquid.

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