“Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.” IfsUseEnergyCommunityNumbersColdDrugMembersSlaveAddictionPopulationPainfulActiveScalesAliensAlternativesMassiveTurkeysMaintainingKickingHookedCrampsKicking ItCold TurkeyMethadone Author:Ivan Illich
“Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.” TurnsSocialAttentionDrugProgramWorkersCheaperMaintenancePreventionSocial WorkerMethadone Author:John Dufresne
“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.” PeopleIfsNeedsTwoDoneEnoughStudyDrugLimitsModelsStandardsResearchEvidenceDoctorsTreatsAddictionScalesTherapyArtificialDoctor WhoReplacementsLarge ScaleOpioidsResearch StudyMethadone Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.” PresidentShotsVicesCarefulShootingInvitedVice PresidentMinusBohemianBurroughsQuailsMethadone Author:William Gibson
“I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.” CrazyMissingObviousNostalgiaMethadone Author:Tana French
“He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.” GoneWindDrugSickAlcoholKicksHalfwayDrugs And AlcoholMethadone Author:James Taylor