Ontario Changes to Methadone Program a Mistake, BC Patients Warn.
Ontario’s 40,000 methadone patients are being switched to a new formulation of methadone, a medication prescribed to treat opiate addiction. Patients in BC were switched on to the new product – called Methadose – earlier this year. The results are proving problematic. Many patients are reporting that the new methadone doesn’t hold them until their next dose. They wind up in withdrawal, back in the cycle of sickness and craving from which they fought to escape. Some are relapsing back to heroin.