methadon

English

Noun

methadon (countable and uncountable, plural methadons)

1. Alternative form of methadone
   • 1949, U.S. Navy Medicine, page 5:

     Single minimal analgesic doses of methadon and metopon seldom produce significant euphoric reaction in either non-addicts or former morphine addicts.

   • 1978, Kurt E. Koch, Occult ABC, →ISBN, page 56:

     The addict becomes addicted to methadon, but methadon addicts are fit to work.

   • 1990, John Brown, Audrey Brown, Insecure Societies: Delinquency in Troubled Times, →ISBN, page 92:

     Finding that many of the addicts were not under the care of the many institutions that the city had hoped would provide treatment for them and would gradually rehabilitate them back into society, and that the physical condition of many of those addicted was poor, a methadon scheme was started in 1980 under the aegis of the Municipal Health Service.

Anagrams

• thanedom