Methadone-A Replacement for Deadly Heroin, Can Kill you too!!

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

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