Methadon

Single minimal analgesic doses of methadon and metopon seldom produce significant euphoric reaction in either non-addicts or former morphine addicts.

The addict becomes addicted to methadon, but methadon addicts are fit to work.

Finding that many of the addicts were not under the care of the many institutions that the city had hoped would provide treatment for them and would gradually rehabilitate them back into society, and that the physical condition of many of those addicted was poor, a methadon scheme was started in 1980 under the aegis of the Municipal Health Service.