METHADONE TURNED LIFE AROUND

I am a recovering addict with three years clean. With the help of my
medication, I have been able to put my life back together. I was addicted
to pain meds. I was crushed in a roof fall in a coal mine in 1999 and
became addicted to OxyContin. It was the worst hell I had ever been through.

In December 2001 I called the ambulance to take me to the emergency room
where I got help to get into a drug rehab center. There is where I got the
help I needed. I had made up my mind not to take methadone, but after 23
days of pain from the roof fall that broke both my hips and back, I started
methadone treatment. In two weeks I was walking without using a cane.

It has been over three years now, and I am so grateful to LCG at Tazewell.
I have seen a lot of people there who are living better lives because they
are in treatment with methadone. If your son or daughter was a drug addict,
wouldn't you want them to take a medication rather than stick a needle in
their arm every chance they got? For those suffering, I pray they can find
the help they need without driving 200 miles a day.

Wayne Ramey

St. Charles, Va.