Methadone Addiction and Detoxification

Sometimes, patients come to The Coleman Institute, after beginning a Methadone program for Heroin addiction somewhere else, because they are now hooked on Methadone. This is clearly a cruel irony, especially if the Methadone treatment has helped a patient to reduce his/her heroin use.

While Methadone can allow some patients to stop their Heroin or Oxycontin use, the success rate is low because patients are not really drug free. Methadone patients are still dependent on a strong mood altering drug and so they continue to have strong cravings. What is worse is that Methadone is much harder to detoxify off of than Heroin or Oxycontin. Even a very slow taper off Methadone produces very uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms.  This drives patients to use drugs during the tapering period in order to relieve the discomfort. Many clinics and their patients give up and elect to stay on Methadone Maintenance. But this is not a good solution either, since Methadone Maintenance doesn’t usually stop other drug use, and it is much harder to detoxify oneself off Methadone than any other opiate. This reality has led The Coleman Institute to modify our highly successful Accelerated Detox program to help Methadone users to completely detoxify themselves in only eight days and help them stay clean.

Patients addicted to Methadone are eligible for an extended form of our Accelerated Detox program, which will take about eight days. To be eligible for this treatment, patients will need to be in good general health, willing to attend on a daily basis, stay in the local area, agree to not drive, and agree to be fully supervised by someone during the treatment program until the Naltrexone Therapy has begun.

This program works amazingly well.

Testimonial:

Joe M.
In November of 1995, I had a knee replacement followed by several revisions on my left knee. The knee was constantly getting infected and I experienced chronic pain as a result of this. I took narcotic pain killers over long periods of time and eventually became addicted. I tried inpatient rehabilitation and came out as addicted as I was when I went in. I was extremely depressed when a psychiatrist I was seeing recommended that I see Dr. Coleman. By the time I got to Dr. Coleman, I was taking 70 mg of Methadone every day. He tried weaning me off the Methadone without success. He tried switching me to a shorter acting medication and then weaning me off of that, but this also failed. Finally, Dr. Coleman told me about an ultra rapid detoxification process he was using on other patients. After several months of contemplation, I finally decided to try the detox process. It was like someone flipped a switch in my brain, suddenly the craving I had for narcotics was gone and I felt great! My life was my own again and I felt free from the pain of addiction for the first time in years. Dr. Coleman saved my life and I will forever be grateful to him.

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