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methadone

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Word definitions for methadone in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Carcinoma, methadone , diabetes, depression, miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as the weather. ▪ He lied about his address and so received methadone on a maintenance basis. ▪ I would like a maintenance ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off of heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
methadon \methadon\, methadone \methadone\n. a narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in treating heroin addiction. Syn: methadone hydrochloride.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947, generic designation for 6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-heptanone . For origins of the syllables, see methyl + amino + di- + -one .

Usage examples of methadone.

Each bottle arrives with a piece of paper stating that the urine contains no detectable amounts of amphetamines, barbiturates, methadone, opiates, metabolized cocaine, benzodiazepine or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

Once-elegant apartment buildings stood next to scrapyards, and where there had been furriers and movie palaces there were now blood banks and methadone clinics and Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission.

No methadone, no help, just me in a room with a bucket and a twelve inch portable colour television that Welsh John stole from a second-hand shop full of previously stolen goods.

Within ten minutes Emma is fast asleep, while I slowly drift off to the two-part background vocals of a cut called "Here's the Deal," which is about either marital infidelity or methadone withdrawal—from the chorus it's impossible to tell.