Q&A: Why do we not allow use dolophine in hospice care? It was used in 1967 as powerful pain killer. I had to take?

Question by R J: Why do we not allow use dolophine in hospice care? It was used in 1967 as powerful pain killer. I had to take?
Withdrawal from 3 weeks of dolophine use for spinal memingitis at max dose for the time left me with no withdrawal effects. It IS used for pain killer, but closley monitored in healthy population. Why not allow use in hospice care than the much weaker morphine?People die in severe pain on mere morphine!

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Answer by Loudmouth
They use methadone ,and are not worried about withdrawals because most do not recover from hospice care

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18 August 2010 4:24pm - Dolophine

Reader's Comments

1. Fat Cat | 18 Aug 2010 4:48 pm

   It’s still available. It’s called methadone.

2. redhotsillypepper | 18 Aug 2010 4:53 pm

   Dolophine, otherwise known as methadone, is commonly used for hospice patients. Morphine is used more frequently because it is short acting and the adverse effects are more predictable and easier to manage. Hospice trained physicians will not hesitate to switch a patient whose pain is not being well managed by morphine to methadone.