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Originally Posted by Rerun
Do these clinics cure people or are they just substituting one drug for another?
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Basically what it does is detox the body from craving what drug they are addicted to. Once the body stops is cravings they can stop the methadone treatments and move on. Sure they may have cravings sometime again in life but it is a huge improvement from before when they could not function without their addiction.
The drugs that they treat are ones that a person cannot stop on their own. So I guess from your question, it is substituting one drug for another, but the second one can be stopped at any time without cravings, which in turn lets the patient move on with their life.