How does a methodone clinic work?

Answer by  bryama (23)

Methodone clinics offer heroin addicts replacement therapy. They take you off heroin by supplying regular administrations of methodone, which is highly addictive, to replace your heroin dependence.

Answer by  Raketemensch (54)

Methadone clinics give heroin addicts methadone, a synthetic opiate with a long half-life, to ease their withdrawal symptoms. Methadone has no euphoric effects and blocks the action of other opiates.

Answer by  patti (29325)

Methadone is a synthetic narcotic drug that mimics morphine but is less habit-forming. Heroin users, for example, can register at a clinic and receive methadone for the maintenance of their addiction. This is thought to be safer than the pursuit of illegal heroin and to decrease the crime associated with heroin addiction.