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Transformed Lives. Methadone prevents withdrawal symptoms when the addict stops using heroin. Swallowed in individually regulated doses, it keeps him on an even keel without producing either euphoria or lassitude. It also helps suppress his craving for drugs-and keeps the addict from getting high on heroin if he tries going back to it. Most important, stabilizing an addict on methadone often brings his previously buried emotional problems to the surface where they can be treated...
...illusion of a solution" while actually doing more harm than good. In a much-discussed article in Science last spring, they argued that methadone maintenance "reinforces the popular illusion that a drug can be a fast, cheap and magical answer to complex human and social problems." Because methadone is addictive, opponents also find maintenance morally abhorrent and believe that moving an addict from heroin to methadone is like shifting an alcoholic from bourbon to Scotch...
Representative Michael Flaherty (D--South Boston) said yesterday that the bill might win sympathy, because new legislators are predisposed to treating an addict as a sick person, not a criminal...
Samuel Tyler, director of the Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction called the bill "important," and said. It gives a judge the option to recognize an addict's crime as a symptom of an illness...
Dumont said that the message from Washington is that "the addict is an enemy of the social order." He said he would prefer to consider junkies as "suffering individuals in need of assistance...