Methadone Intervention
Methadone is not an effective form of recovery for almost everyone that is on it. In fact, almost every family that calls us about a methadone intervention is upset that the situation has either stayed the same, or has become worse than it was. Methadone may keep your loved one out of jail or from stealing money from moms purse or dads wallet, however it will almost never improve the quality of your loved ones life. Intervention for methadone addiction is very common, and because of the intense long term detox needed for methadone, treatment to overcome the methadone addiction is not always inexpensive. The problem with opiate addicts is not even the opiates themselves, why doctors think that giving someone methadone would some how make them better is actually quite 
sad. Giving an opiate user methadone is like giving a vodka drinker beer to get well. The problem with methadone intervention a family can face without a professional present, is the substance abuser can argue that they are not using hard drugs at that moment in time and to give them a chance because they are trying. The problem is we have yet to see methadone improve the quality of someones life or actually bring them to a condition in life that is better than what they could achieve without methadone. Because a doctor or clinic has prescribed the methadone, methadone users have an argument that they have to have it in order to function. The reason the addict feels fine at the methadone intervention or anywhere else for that matter, is because when they are on methadone their brains are getting the fix that it so desperately needs. Methadone intervention can bring your loved one off of the drugs and into a detox followed by long term care so they do not have to be slaves to the doctor or clinic any longer.
Intervention for Methadone Addiction
People who are addicted to methadone suffer a much more severe and longer detox than any other opiate including heroin. Methadone intervention is about bringing the methadone user to treatment where they can comfortable come down off of the drug safely. In fact the detox from methadone is so severe that many county jails dispense methadone to help inmates come off of the drug while incarcerated, providing they were receiving the drug legally at clinic prior to incarceration. The sad reality is that people who are on methadone do in fact end up in jail. The point is that methadone does not really improve the quality of your life or repair the negative thinking that you have. Although most people on the methadone program may end up temporarily abstaining from opiates use, they unfortunately many times try and do other drugs in the process. Methadone intervention brings the family together, puts everyone on the same page and educates them on the methadone addiction, the detox they will face, and how to handle their loved one before the intervention, during treatment, and most importantly after treatment when the methadone intervention counselor is gone.
Methadone Intervention Program
Methadone addiction is dangerous and for the most part ineffective as a long term solution. It would be impossible and inappropriate for me to say the methadone program has never worked, however I am yet to see it be effective as a long term or even a short term solution. Our methadone intervention program teaches families that the problem with their loved one is not actually the drug abuse itself, but rather the drug abuse is just a solution to other underlying things. So the question is, how could anyone every get to the core of what bothers them or why they are unable to confront situation if they are constantly under the influence of methadone? The only fix methadone provides is the fix the addict needs to feel well and function without being sick, as far as a solution is concerned, there are far better options than the methadone program.
