How'd you like your baby to be hooked on methadone?

"The effect of Methadone on babies is not fully understood. But for expectant women who can't get clean without it, it might be their best hope." So begins an article in the Baltimore Sun. I didn't go any further. I was outraged.

It's outrageous for pregnant women to be prescribed a powerfully addictive drug , particularly if the effects are not fully known. Gray areas exist in life, but nobody with with half a brain could justify giving narcotics to a mother to be.

Particularly outrageous is the idea that nothing can be done about heroin addiction beyond trading one bad drug for another. Studines show that Methadone treatment is ineffective. To treat a pregnant woman with a drug where the costs could be high and the benefits are most assuredly low is just nuts.

Effective drug free programs can exit to treatg heroin addiction. They should be used as the first choice with a pregnant woman. Enough questions exist about drug rehab in Georgia as it is without adding any ones that have obvious answers to them.

Fritz Alders