Journal of Clinical Case Reports

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

Abstract

Gurveen Malhotra and Sivashankar Sivaraman

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