There are two lists on this page. The first has the names of the pages under subject headings. If you click on the subject heading (eg. Pages about people) it will take you to the second list which shows the names of the pages under that heading together with a description of what the pages are about. If you click on a page name in either list it will take you to that page.

	Pages About People My Story, Part 1 My Story, Part 2 My Story, Part 3 Mandy's Story Annette's Story The Wardrobe So, This is 'Treatment'? Your Story! Non-Methadone Treatments Overview of Treatments Heroin Maintenance Medical Articles About Opiates and Depression Index to Medical Articles Pages About Detox Life After Heroin: Staying Clean		GuestBook Pages Sign my Guestbook Read the Latest Guestbook Read Guestbook Archive 1 Read Guestbook Archive 2 Read Guestbook Archive 3 Read Guestbook Archive 4 Miscellaneous Pages Home Page Bookstore Introduction to this Site What's New Copyright and Disclaimer Info What is Heroin? WWW Links Pages About Methadone Methadone Treatment The World's Worst Methadone Clinic More Than Methadone Patients Discussing Being Stereotyped 'Just Wait Here' - Methadone Cartoon So, This is 'Treatment'?

Pages about people.

• My story, Part 1. Coping with Depression
  After being clean for several years I was diagnosed first with depression and then with manic depression. I started taking heroin and methadone again as these were the only drugs I found that relieved my depression.

• My story, Part 2. Ancient History
  My experiences from childhood, early drug use, treatment and detox history, to starting a family.

• My story, Part 3. Coping with the system
  Victoria, Australia has very restrictive methadone regulations. After 18 months on methadone I still have to collect my methadone from the pharmacy every day. I'm sure you can imagine the havoc this plays with a busy lifestyle (2 children under 5, full time study and part-time work). It seems that the more successful and active a methadone user gets, the heavier the yoke becomes.

• Mandy's Story
  In many ways a typical story of someone becoming addicted to opiates, but Mandy is anything but a stereotypical junkie. A well educated, high achieving career woman for whom life will never be the same. Includes a poem about heroin and being sick

• Annette's Story
  Annette shares with us a brief account of how opiates have affected her life.

• The Wardrobe
  A semi-autobiographical short story.

• So This is 'Treatment'?
  Nick Stafford recounts his own experiences of methadone maintenance. An interesting and original viewpoint of methadone treatment.

• Your Story Could be Here!
  The more we tell each other about ourselves and let it be known that we are humans too the more good can be done. Sharing personal experiences is a great way of achieving understanding, reaching out to others, making all of us a little less isolated. If you would like to share your story e-mail me at egad-dict@geocities.com

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Pages about Treatments other than Methadone.

• Treatments for Heroin Addiction
  General overview touching on issues about the difference between drug use and addiction, stereotyping addicts, different treatment types, treatment availability, discrimination against people seeking treatment and whatever else comes into my head.

• Heroin Maintenance
  Heroin trials have received widespread support in Australia, but the conservative government doesn't have the guts to go ahead with it. Switzerland is now well into the first large scale, systematic program to really allow addicts to choose how they want to live. The early results are very promising and, despite sending the 'no drugs for anyone for any reason' fanatics into apoplexy, this program has received widespread support from the Swiss public. This page attempts to sort out some of the arguments and gives links to current research.

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Articles from Medical Journals About the Treatment of Depression and Psychotic Disorders with Methadone and other opiates.

Index of Medical Articles
This page lists the articles and gives some background.

• Antimanic, Antidepressant, and Antipanic Effects of Opiates: Clinical, Neuroanatomical, and Biochemical Evidence

• Antipsychotic Effect of Opiate Agonists

• Buprenorphine Responders

• Depressive Phenomenology and Levels of Cerebrospinal Fluid Endorphins

• Effect of Methadone Plus Neuroleptics on Treatment-Resistant Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia

• Endorphins in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Psychiatic Patients

• Methadone And Morphine in Depression

• Morphine as an Antipsychotic

• A Possible Opioid Receptor Dysfunction in Some Depressive Disorders

• Regionally selective increases in m opioid receptor density in the brains of suicide victims

• Methadone and Opiate Drugs: Psychotropic Effect and Self-Medication

• Chronic Use of Opioids and Antipsychotic Drugs: Side Effects, Effects on Endogenous Opioids, and Toxicity

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Pages with helpful information about detoxing.

• Life After Heroin: The Attempt to Stay Clean
  Advice on staying clean after withdrawal. A person e-mailed me saying that he'd just stopped taking methadone and was having trouble staying clean, could I give him some advice. That was all the information I had to go on. This was my reply and I figured that the advice in it could well apply to anyone. I do get asked for this sort of advice frequently. Different things work for different people, so it is by no means the last word on abstinence strategies, but these are the things that I consider to have been important in my own recovery.

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Guestbook Pages

• Sign my guestbook
  Tell me what you liked (or didn't) about the site. Tell your story. Comment. Just say 'Hi'. Communication is our greatest tool - USE IT!

• Read the Guestbook
  The most recent guestbook entries, this page is added to every day.

• Read the Guestbook Archive

  • Archive 1
  • Archive 2
  • Archive 3
  • Archive 4
  
  The guestbook has become so big that it has grown to five pages. The pages are numbered earliest first. From Archive 1 the first entry, which disappointed me terribly and made me wonder if I was going to be able to get through to anyone, to messages which have been so hopeful and beautiful that they still give me a lift when I read them over.

Miscellaneous Pages

• Home Page

• Amazon.com Bookstore
  'An Addict's View' website has become part of the Amazon.com associates program. On this page I will be compiling a list of books - about drugs, the drug war and other related issues - available through Amazon. Only purchases made after following a link from the 'An Addict's View' website will earn money for this site.

• Introductory Page
  Summary of the website, what it's about and a few of the things you can find here.

• What's New
  The place where I tell you about additions to the site and other interesting things.

• Copyright and Disclaimer Information
  This web site is protected by copyright law. This page gives details about what you can and can't do with information or excerpts from this site. It also gives important information about how much to trust information on this site.

• What is heroin?
  Short account of where heroin comes from and its history.

• Links to other Internet sites about Opiate use, Addiction and Treatment
  Growing (and growing and growing!) list of web sites with more information about drugs, human rights and the drug war than you will ever get through!

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Pages about Methadone.

Methadone Treatment.
Anything useful I could think of about methadone treatment, including: advantages of methadone treatment, disadvantages of methadone treatment, when is a treatment successful?, Methadone services, What to do if you want to go on a methadone program?, Information Links, Methadone Cartoon.

The world's WORST methadone clinic
Well, perhaps not really the worst because as bad as this story sounds I have heard, unfortunately, others just as bad and even worse. It is, however an enlightening example of just how much power doctors and clinics have over methadone patients and the inhumane way in which some unscrupulous (or just disinterested) "carers" wield it. This is a first hand account of one woman's refusal to bow to injustice, even when threatened with dire consequences.

More than Methadone
The opposite of the horror story above. A positive story of client-centred service. Cooper's Cottage in Sydney, Australia, works with clients to help with basic needs, such as parenting skills, as well as providing methadone. Reproduced with permission from CEIDA's Connexions magazine.

Methadone patients dicussing stereotypes, stigma and "coming out"
A series of excerpts from the Methadone Mailing List (for information on how to access this mailing list see the entry on the WWWLinks page) with some poignant thoughts of what it feels like to be a methadone patient among strangers. How will they react? Should you just keep your mouth shut when the unsuspecting person you are having a casual conversation with mentions that all methadone patients are just sleazy junkies bludging off the system?

Just Wait Here A cartoon for children about methadone.

How do you tell your children you're on methadone? What do they think you are doing at the clinic? There is plenty of information forced upon children via 'Just Say No' style campaigns, but no information at all for children about methadone. This is a simple introduction to the subject targeted specifically to the children of methadone patients.

• About "Just Wait Here" - file sizes, alternate download, etc.
• Just Wait Here - Front Page
• Just Wait Here - Page 2
• Just Wait Here - Page 3
• Just Wait Here - Page 4
• Just Wait Here - Page 5
• Just Wait Here - Page 6
• Just Wait Here - Page 7

So This is 'Treatment'?
Nick Stafford recounts his own experiences of methadone maintenance. An interesting and original viewpoint of methadone treatment

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