Subutex
Methadone
15
and back then jail wasn’t like it is today you would be given paracetomol and water no matter what was up with you, this was before they started giving methadone out and I was actually the first person to be given D F’s in Walton Prison Liverpool. When I got out of prison that time I didn’t go for heroin I went straight for methadone I was taking upto 500mls a day at this point everyone says it gets in your bones and it doesn’t it causes brittle bone disease and that’s why I don’t heal very well after falls and my bones break really easy.
D2DI: Do you actually know what is in methadone have you ever been told by your GP?
ML: No I have never been told what is in it, but I do know that you can request suger-free as the sugar can rot your teeth. I have heard that Hitler used it during the second world war he was meant to have had a doctor injecting him with and that’s what made him crazy, also that the Russians used it for their front line troops, I believe it’s a meth amphetamine.
D2DI: Would you say that your crime
stopped during your time maintained on
methadone?
ML: It did for a while, but because I was
still using heroin on with it I had to continue to fund it, and when I tried to go on to subutex
a blocker, my crime went up as I was going crazy for heroin and crack and couldn’t use whilst on the subutex, I ended up doing things that wouldn’t have done on methadone.
D2DI: So if someone is going to see their doctor to get methadone for the first time will they be put n the equivalent methadone to their heroin use?
ML: no everyone is given 30mls no matter how much they are using.
D2DI: So what are your plans for the future in terms of your methadone use?
ML: I am looking to go into a detox shortly to get reduced down to 40mls and I think that will be manageable I do want to come of it but am scared to, I wouldn’t go to subutex again as I didn’t like the things I done whilst on them but I do realize I cant do it on my own I have tried and I always end up doing the same things.