Dr. Bruce

Well, they might not know.

Methadone is a synthetic opiate.

If you put all the opiates, all the things that stimulate opiate receptors on a tree, it branches out real early, and you get methadone and Darvon, and then you get all the others here.

So it's very long-acting.

It's very sedating, and it's used for chronic pain.

It has a long half-life.

No, it's just, it's felt that you're not out getting it illegally and you don't have, it doesn't give you the same euphoria.

Anyway, the point is.

It's a huge problem.

I mean, I had a call from a friend today.

His son is out taking these kind of pills.

And it's the type of thing where there are certain stories you hear in the news.

This is an epidemic and this is a problem.

But this is something that every day I'm seeing probably 5, 10, 15% of the patients I see are just there.

Right, but addiction's a complex disorder.

It's multifactorial.

It's not just one gene that codes for it.

So if I have a patient that's honest enough to say, wow, this stuff gave me energy, made me feel great,

As opposed to somebody like yourself.

That person has probably genetics for addiction, probably has a family history of addiction.