Methadone

it works as an opioid that binds to your receptor but doesn't do the same downstream signaling to make you high. so it makes you go into much less of a withdrawal (supposedly) which is awesome because opioid withdrawal can be extremely painful both emotionally and physically. when you withdraw from a drug it just has the opposite effect as if you took the drug so imagine the opposite of euphoria i guess. as someone who has never used methadone but has known a handful of people who have i have mixed feelings. very cool and extremely important that we have a drug that can make the opioid withdrawals less terrible and we can make recovery easier <3. on the other hand fuck a methadone clinic that doesn't help people wean off of the drug and takes advantage of their client base which already has a complex relationship with the healthcare system. not taking stars off of methadone for that because its methadones fault fr. but we need to support our folks in addiction and recovery <3