the methadone quandry

I'm sure most are familiar with my low opinion of the use of methadone maintenance. I fully agree that methadone is effective and useful in many areas but if the plan is to maintain a person on a narcotic, why would you use methadone? Heroin is a far more benign and user friendly drug and it gives its user what they want. Methadone is far more addictive and takes so long to kick that it kicks the shit out of it's user long before they can quit. If the intent is to maintain a person for the long term, Methadone is a horror story. Anyone who thinks the methadone establishment is on the level, just obtain a copy of their manifesto--lies and more lies. What caused this rant is a recent incident that happened in Vernon, B.C. It seems some person had a supply of methadone on hand and for some reason decided it would be a good idea to turn on his young friends. One died and the other is in the hospital. The stuff comes mixed with orange juice or strawberry syrup? Very child friendly. I think it would be far less likely for such things to happen if the user had to inject the drug. I have no comment on the intelligence of a person that would supply any drug to a young person. Even marijuana should have an age limit on it's use as the research is now showing it's use by youth can be a bad thing. I leave it to the educated medical community to figure that one out. The use of an opiate is a loaded gun. I know very few that use and then quit; it does happen, but I would probably never know if it did. I am only familiar with those that become addicted. There are people that use methadone to withdraw; more power to them. But if a person is an addict and is going to be using a narcotic anyway, methadone is just a prop. Most continue to use and turn to cocaine to obtain a form of high when injecting drugs as methadone raises tolerance to astronomical levels.How is that a good thing?