Methadone
Anyone know anything about methadone at a chemical level? We have any uber nerds up in here?
Basically, I want to know if you can make it into a spray form, similar to an inhaler?
Or really, any anti-optiates.
I'm writing a book... not, uh... you know... needing a fix.
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My mom's on it due to her bones turning into dust or something. I've tried it a few times. it's very nice.
I would guess if it is made as an inhalant it would be as an intranasal spray, which is what that Butorphanol was that I also tried a few times and was also very nice. I would guess the only reason it wouldn't is just because having it as a pill is cheaper to do than turning it into a spray.
This mentions that this stuff has an intranasal administration, but doesn't describe it in the body of the article. Looks like it's mostly pills or transdermal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprenorphine
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here's a link to the stuff for nasal uses, which appears to be for migranes:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a601204.html
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Methadone is used to get people addicted to opiates such as heroin, oxycontin, dilaudid, etc. off of them slowly so that they don't get "dope sick". It is also used for treating chronic pain. Methadone itself is extremely addictive and therefore has a fairly low success rate because at the end of the methadone treatment cycle, you get really dope sick and go get more dope.
Narcan is an opiate antagonist. It is often used in ER's for overdoses.
Stadol or Butorphanol is in fact used for migraines - that's what they give me - and it's because my migraines make me puke which makes it difficult to swallow a pill effectively and the other option is intravenous which docs like to avoid generally. I don't know of any pain killers that are inhaled. But they do make Demoral lollipops! Yum! Yum!
This is the extent of my knowledge on such matters.
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There is no such thing as a Demerol (pethidine/meperidine) lollipop. There is a fentanyl lollipop. The only drug mentioned here which would be a light "anti-opiate" (by the way, bad wording there) would be buprenorphine, which is mostly a mu-opioid agonist, although it is a competitive antagonist at the kappa opioid receptor. Buprenorphine comes in two popular varieties, Subutex and Suboxone, the latter also containing naloxone, a strong mu-opioid antagonist (naloxone is added to discourage users from intravenous use).
What is the purpose of the drug in the book in question? Naloxone alone is as I said a strong mu-opioid antagonist, meaning it causes the instant onset of withdrawal symptoms, which, as any long-term opiate addict would tell you, is not a pleasant ordeal.
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Methadone is an opioid, just a maintenance one. I'm not sure what you mean by anti-opiate... Naloxone maybe? But why an inhaler? Very few drugs are administered this way...