Case Report
Gurveen Malhotra and Sivash
Abstract
Methadone is widely used as a replacement for heroin addiction and an inexpensive treatment for chronic pain. We report the case of a 51 year old male on high dose methadone treatment for heroin addiction who presented with prolonged QT interval on electrocardiogram and later had a cardiac arrest with Torsades de Pointes (TdP), a rare complication