Methadone Clinic Directory
Methadone is an opiate agonist; it acts like morphine and other narcotic medications. Heroin addicts are physically dependent on opiates and will experience withdrawal symptoms if the concentration of opiates in their bodies falls below a certain level. In methadone-maintenance treatment, patients receive enough methadone to ward off opiate withdrawal symptoms, but not enough to induce a narcotic "high." In proper doses, according to methadone administrators, methadone does not create euphoria, sedation or analgesia. It does not harm motor skills, mental capability or one's employment skills.