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Old 09-28-2006, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by jannieC View Post
I agree with Suze. Given his age and the fact that he didn't have any unmanagable chronic pain- I believe he was either prescribed methadone for drug addiction or was getting it illegally. Methadone is EXTREMELY dangerous. The dose my husband takes every day would kill someone else in twenty seconds. Methadone has a horrible stigma, but I won't bore you all by talking about it. I'll just say that if he WAS taking it legally, for drug addiction, I feel badly that his care was so mismanaged. The whole thing is very sad.
So true. It's a very sad situation.
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