The most recent comments on the methadone blog included one from a woman who had migraines from her mid teens and has three fractured discs. She hurts - all the time. Personally, I would never expect someone in that condition to live without painkillers - in this case, it’s methadone. Living in severe chronic pain pretty much ruins your life.

I would also never suggest that someone who’s been through drug rehab or other treatment 17 times just “pull themselves up the bootstraps.”  

But I would be very interested to know if the person who said that people with an opiate addiction cannot be cured meant to imply that that goes for anyone with an opiate addiction.  Is that what you meant? Are you implying that all opiate addicts should go on methadone if they want to get off heroin or other opiates because there’s no hope for them to get off the drugs and stay off them? That they shouldn’t even bother attempting drug rehab because, as you said, recovery “will not happen”?

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