Methadone (Dolophine) is a synthesized molecule with pharmacological actions very similar to those of the OPIOD drug, MORPHINE. Methadone serves an important place in the history of opioid ANALGESICS, since it is one of the first synthesized agents...

A synthetic opiate, used in the relief of heroin addiction by maintenance or substitution therapy; see HEROIN for a discussion of this. See also:...

A synthetic narcotic. Used medicinally as a sedative and also useful in treating heroin...

Methadone What Kind of Drug Is It? Methadone is a synthetic drug, meaning that it is made in a laboratory from chemicals. It behaves like an opiate drug in the brain. Opiates are drugs, derived from the opium poppy plant, that tend to decrease...

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AT A TIME when heroin use is outpacing the growth of any other narcotic drug in Massachusetts, it is uncaring and pennywise for the Massachusetts House to delete $25 million from the state budget for methadone use by Medicaid recipients. By denying methadone to...

Some Washington County residents are naturally apprehensive about a plan to open a methadone clinic in Calais. The county, where adult arrest rates for possession of synthetic narcotics were nine times higher than Maine as a whole in 2000, however, cannot continue to send...

The rate of drug users who fatally overdose on methadone — a prescription that curbs heroin addiction — is skyrocketing at an alarming pace, a new Justice Department study shows.The report, released Wednesday, found that methadone-related deaths rose nationwide from 786 in 1999 to 3,849...

People starting treatment with methadone have died and suffered life-threatening side effects, health officials said Monday in warning of the dangers of overdosing on the painkiller. Overdoses of the increasingly popular narcotic can cause slow or shallow breathing and dangerous...