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E formattingThey still do the water thing everywhere as far as I know. There is such a thing as methadone in regular pill form that you don't have to break down, but that was never really used much for drug treatment/weaning one from dug abuse purposes, it was prescribed more for non-addicts, for pain management (like for cancer patients), but even then Drs didn't like doing it, for obvious reasons (easier to abuse, easier to sell, etc). Personally I've not seen anyone w a script for pills methadone since the early-mid 00's.Does this mean methadone clinics don't 'melt' the methadone anymore? Back in the day ( 90s-00s) opioid addicts on methadone therapy would go to the methadone clinic to get their daily dose of doctor prescribed methadone 'melted' in water. Then they would do the pour water in the cup-swish-swallow ritual like 6 times after they consumed their initial dose because they wanted every last possible granule of methadone. Randomized drug tests were done to keep the clients honest. Do they actually give them a 30 day script now?
BTW back in the day I worked with a woman that had Crohn's disease. She was on methadone because of the pain and digestive issues of Crohn's disease. She sold off her 'excess' medication to opioid addicts on methadone therapy and only kept what she felt she really needed to get by in life. It helped pay her bills, so she could live independently from her family while working her 9 to 5 job.
And its still messed up, sorry guys, my response is at the bottom of the post I quoted.