Assertion: methadone | /r/HasProperty | prescribed
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: regularly
type: DEGREE
value: to expecting mothers
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: cautiously
type: MANNER
value: correctly
type: MANNER
value: in individuals
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: When methadone is prescribed correctly, it is rare for patients to report feeling sick or high, because the methadone actually helps to stabilize the opiate’s effects in the body.
text: Methadone is a medication that is prescribed to manage opioid addiction.
text: The number of overdose deaths is well out of proportion with how much methadone is prescribed; only about 2 percent of narcotic painkiller prescriptions are for methadone.
text: Methadone is frequently prescribed to expecting mothers as a substitute for illegal drugs such as heroin that carry high risks for both the mother and baby, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
text: Methadone is a synthetic opioid drug that can be prescribed to treat chronic pain, but it is most commonly used in the treatment of heroin and opiate drug withdrawal.
text: Unlike morphine, methadone exhibits wide variations in half-life among patients and must be cautiously prescribed, especially in individuals currently medicated with an opioid.
text: Methadone has been available as a pain medication since World War II, but it only recently began to be regularly prescribed.
text: A powerful painkiller, methadone is also sometimes prescribed to treat severe pain.
text: Methadone has long been prescribed to treat pain as well as addiction to heroin and prescription medications.
text: Why methadone is still prescribed
text: When used to treat opioid addiction, methadone may only be prescribed and dispensed at a certified OTP or, if the patient is in the hospital for another condition, at that hospital.1,7
text: However, in Edinburgh, the authors could not determine whether methadone was prescribed or not.
text: Methadone is often prescribed to help treat these addictions, making methadone addiction typically more common.