Nationally, many Americans go to methadone clinics. Some do it to wean themselves off heroin, but many others do it just to get high, or to supplement an existing habit.

Most people view a methadone clinic as a means to an end of drug addiction, but it's a business, and businesses are open to make money.

The nurses, counselors and doctors who are there supposedly to help patients are actually there to keep patients coming back. Why would they want someone to quit coming to the clinic? If everyone quit using methadone, they would be out of a job.

Many people who refuse to work still will manage to get up every morning and make it to the methadone clinic. Some of these people might have tried to quit but don't even last two days without their legal fix.

All these people have ended up doing is trading one addiction for another.

That is what methadone is, a legal addiction.

Worse, regulations for methadone clinics are practically nonexistent. You can fail a drug test there and not have to worry about it. All that will happen to you is that they will make you come there every day to get your methadone. You won't be allowed to take any home with you.

Now you have people high on synthetic heroin driving around.

They do not care if you fail a drug test, just as long as you're back the next day to get your next fix.

The government needs to step in and make some serious regulations on this business.

As it stands now, you can go to the methadone clinic for as long as you want to. There is no turning you away, just as long as you can pay for your dose, and to make that easier they even will let you charge a day if you don't have the money.

People go to the methadone clinic for years, even decades, because they are addicted to the methadone. Their bodies won't let them quit. They start suffering withdrawal symptoms within the first 48 hours, so back to the methadone clinic they go.

No one will help you detox if they know you are on methadone. You have to go to a specialized institution to detox off methadone, it turns out.