Methadone Quotes

• He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

  James Taylor

  Wind, Sick, Alcohol

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• Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

  John Dufresne

  Drug, Attention, Maintenance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Welfare is monetary methadone.

  Adam Carolla

  Welfare, Monetary

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, edition.cnn.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

  Ivan Illich

  Turkeys, Kicking It, Numbers

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• Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Doctors, Two, People

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

  William Gibson

  President, Vices, Shooting

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• I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.

  Tana French

  Crazy, Missing, Nostalgia

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