Marijuana and Methadone: Two Very Dangerous Drugs

[CB]

Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment.
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(MOLALLA, Ore.) - When we get into a Pizzen controversy like this one we must inquire - who says so. This is really simple; U.S. government paid mouthpieces bleat that marijuana is as dangerous as heroin.

They don't give any references or quotations from physicians or toxicologists to back up this bleating but if a person being paid by the U.S. government says marijuana is dangerous and addicting they must believe it and say so or they will lose a good paying job.

As a matter of fact, the dumass chairman of the Oregon Medical Board asked me, "Dr. Leveque, don't you know that marijuana is very addicting and very dangerous?"

"Yes" I said, "dumass." Then he suspended my license and later revoked it releasing to the Oregonian newspaper that I was "a danger to all my patients and the public in general".

This was pretty scary to me, I had 5,000 patients on marijuana and I just didn't know I was harming them.

Now let's go to Methadone. This drug is highly recommended and prescribed to get morphine, oxycontin and heroin drug addicts off these drugs. It must be safe and good for those druggies because the FDA and the rest of the U.S. government bozos say it is good and safe. Whoa, there must be another side to this story.

Last week I picked up an interesting medical journal, The Ladies Home Journal, with an article about Methadone with information from the U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center stating that the number of Methadone deaths from 1992 to 2004 increased per year from 786 in 1999, to 3,849 in 2004.

The deaths were in the 15 to 24-year old age group.

They further report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network which compiles drug related ER visits reported in 2005 that there wee 598,542 drug incidents of which 46,316 were for Methadone.

Bruce Goldberg Ph.D., a forensic Toxicologist for the state of Florida, believes the Methadone related fatalities are under-reported.

Mercy me, how can we believe what the U.S. government bozos are flapping their lips about when they still won't admit that marijuana has never killed anybody?

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[Dawg]

Ewww, Methadone....Had that once. barfed 4x was totally forked up and kept getting horribly lightheaded....Nasty forkin stuff. Will say ditched my pain pretty quick.
How dumb can people be....hell be that dumb and have it published!!!!!
LOL, give me my herb you can keep the rest of the crap.

[CB]

oxy is just as bad IMO the side effect's don't out weigh the pain relief.... barf city here when i tried it.

will stick to the herb thanks ;)

[becky420]

I will stick to weed too
I HAD two friends who was hooked on methadone (due to herion use)
didnt like the way they acted on it.. I rather "zone out " in weed then what methadone did to them...

[Puffin Afatty]

While in college in Cleveland Ohio in the 70's, I worked at a Methadone Clinic. some of these folks had been on Methadone for nearly 10 yrs when I got there and some are still on Methadone today, 30+ years later.

Methadone was created by the Nazis during WW2 as a pain medication, a substitute for morphine, in very short supply at the time.

My experience with Methadone clients was enlightening. the addiction to methadone is the same, IDENTICAL in point of fact, to the addiction to morphine or other opiates. The only difference is that the client got the meth legally. Clients still had to come in daily for their fix of Meth.

Being legal allowed some to work and maintain at least an almost normal lifestyle. Most client would occassionally use street drugs anyway and little progress toward getting off Meth would be made thru the course of treatment, lasting 30 yrs is some cases.

I once tried a single dose of 5 mg of Meth, and I slept for 2 days. 10 mg would have killed me. Some clients had a daily dose of 100mg.

[Dawg]

Some clients had a daily dose of 100mg
I could only imagine what that is doing to there kidneys n stuff. :eek:

Adverse effects of methadone include[9][10][11][12][13]

* Hypoventilation
* Decreased bowel motility - constipation
* miotic pupils
* nausea
* hypotension
* hallucination
* headache
* vomiting
* Cardiac arrhythmia
* anorexia (symptom)
* weight gain
* stomach pain
* xerostomia
* perspiration
* flushing
* itching
* difficulty urinating
* swelling of the hands, arms, feet, and legs
* mood changes
* blurred vision
* insomnia
* impotence
* skin rash
* seizures

When combined with other drugs, however, methadone can cause death:

[edit] Mortality

According to the National Center for Health Statistics,[14] as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston (WV) Gazette,[15] medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3,849 deaths in 2004, up from 790 in 1999. Approximately 82% of those deaths were listed as accidental- and most deaths involved combinations of methadone with other drugs (especially benzodiazepines).

More information on methadone associated mortality can be found at Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services).

[Cranky]

i have lost so many mates to methodone...i haven't lost 1 to weed...you do the figures,any probs working it out feel free to pm me ;)

there not even comparable for fucks sakes

its like saying coca cola is as bad as crystal meth

fucking asswitts the lot of um:mad:

i still know peeps that are queuing outside the pharmacies for opening time so they can get there hit of methodone....they wont give it out here as peeps will just do the lot in in one go and O.D on the shit so they have to go to the pharmacy and take it daily in front of the pharmacist.

that shit kills peeps on a daily basis!

cranks

[SmokinMa]

My dad was given methadone for chronic pain in his legs, and not for herrion addiction.

I wonder if his methadone use had anything to do with the issues that ended up killing him....hmmmmm.

[sombro]

Surely the biggest danger to heroin users is the fact that they have to use the black market in order to feed the addiction. Medical methadone comes as a standard dosage, not cut with drain cleaner and not varying in strength. It's far, far safer than the drug it replaces but only because it's always the same dose and it's not cut with crap.

The irony is that almost every measure designed to reduce heroin use results in a more dangerous life for the addict and more problems for society. It was and still is accepted that cutting off the supply to the addicts would kill the problem. The drug is subject to market forces like everything else, squeezing the supply means higher prices for H, addicts have to find the money somehow. The rest is obvious. But counterproductive drugs laws are not news to us.

Those who die from methadone kill themselves in search of a bigger buzz, their number include my cousin. Most heroin addicts die from the dangerous nature of their habit, not the drug itself.