"i am a chronic pain sufferer with ankylosing spondylitis and crohn&#039;s disease. as and cd are certainly a blow to deal with, and i have tried the whole regime of pain medications and over the counter, and herbal remedies as well. i am treating both the pain and the diarrhea that started when i had a bowel resection 12 years ago with any narcotic that will work. i have tried them all, as i mentioned. 

and the only reason i am posting here is because i am afraid that methadone, like many other drugs that are &quot;addictive&quot; may be a casualty of war in the &quot;drug war&quot;. it seems that any drug that gets attention, gets abused, gets laws placed against it, goes underground, and then gets removed from the pharmacists shelf."