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Is it possible to fake a heroin addiction to get methadone?

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Dr. Clarence Lyons answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Methadone: If a urine drug screen was performed it would be harder to do this and there are some signs and symptoms that are harder to fake, but i will not go into those.

Answered 12/3/2013

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