I was so shocked and upset by a call that came in the other day it literally brought me to tears, especially when thinking of my own infant child. A young mother told me how she became pregnant while undergoing methadone treatment. She asked to be weaned down and the clinic told her no and actually wound up increasing her dose. When her baby was born she had to watch the infant go through painfully horrible withdrawals without the benefit of a methadone detox. It was enough to get the mother to stop taking the drug as well because she saw how evil it really was. It’s bad enough that a methadone clinic lies to people and tells them the drug is a suitable treatment for heroin addiction, but to keep a pregnant mother on the drug and increase the dose so that she gave birth to an addicted child is downright inhumane torture.
