I was on liquid handcuffs for 12 years at STC and today I am 21 days clean from methadone, and detoxed without the help of STC. I underwent a detox program beautifully. I am so grateful for the new frontier ahead of me. Off liquid Handcuffs.
For 12 years, it was like Groundhogs Day. Wake up, already in withdrawal, take dose, sweat all day, and then there's a slow, painful titration period of just feeling more like crap every hour until you next dose.
After a a while (years in) methadone starts metabolizing far quicker, leaving you in withdrawal in the middle of the day. It's a terrible way to continue on living, and MED MARK and Springdale Treatment Center do not care about you.
Not a great deal, and despite a few decent counselors here and there, you're still under rule by dictator-like rules, not even entertaining patients concerns, only wanting to keep patients coming in to spend their little money on methadone. Appropriate, as Methadone was invented by a chemist in Hitler's regime. They blew through their morphine, so they invented methadone to keep his Nazi soldiers comfortably addicted.
After the Vietnam war, Methadone clinics started popping up in the states to treat soldiers coming back addicted to heroin. In the 1990's, heroin was on the rise again, so more clinics opened. And now we have private companies opening clinics like STC to make money on those hopelessly addicted. It's now owned and operated by MedMark (previously owned by The Riverwood Group).
The doctor, Thomas Atkinson has the worst bedside manner I have ever experienced. I have made efforts with state officials to improve this. However, during several of my annual physicals, Atkinson would tell hideous stories about how he hates his wife and dogs. He vents his toxic nonsense to his patients, using explicit language, and an overall negative, attitude. Note, this isn't playful venting. Each year I went in he was less than interested in how my dose was. #liquidhandcuffs
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