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Originally Posted by Mygrandjourney
Subutex is buprenorphine without naloxone. It is available here (in the U.S.) and only used for specific cases where a relapse or abuse of Suboxone would cause more harm than good (such as with pregnant women). Research shows that with heroin and other opiates, relapse is over 80% likely when not taking a replacement medication. Addicts lose their tolerance while off the drugs, cold turkey, which is why many of them OD when relapsing. They try to start back on the dose they last used. There may be individual cases of "cold turkey" and rapid detoxes, etc that were successful, but they aren't supported by science, which is what the medical community relies on.
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Thanks for your input. Boy , buprenorphine without the naloxone must be nice.
Seriously. I probably said this somewhere else but my main point is I'm physically addicted to it , not mentally. I was on about 300mg. of oxy for pain when my Dr. suddenly disappeared after the DEA crackdown. I was out in the cold. I couldn't find ANYONE to give me even a 20mg. oxycodone.
Forced to detox using suboxone was a Godsend.
When I was at the lowest dose the PM Dr. decided to keep me on the suboxone ( 2.0/0.5 ) 3x a day for MAINTAINANCE control of my pain which was nothing ,but better than nothing ,( a lot of Drs. will just tell you to take some advil or something ). Since this is an addiction thread I want to concentrate on the fact that there is a difference between physical and psychological addiction.
I tried to detox myself off the Suboxone just to see what happened .Well I lasted 2 days . I locked myself in my apartment and began to go insane. Now I know everybody is different but I was going insane . Was just about to commit myself when I decided to stop my experiment.
You have to understand that I was now in my physical pain was in full force because I was not taking anything for it. While I was doing my experiment. I was told by my T that she heard a lot about people thinking it would be easy to get off such a low dose but were surprised when they found out it wasn't as easy as they thought. I think age also can have something to do with it. The older you get the harder all this s*** seems to be.
I just need something to control my physical pain, I don't care what it is , as long as it is not a narcotic. Narcotic medication cost me everything.
I've been on morphine , methadone (for pain ), oxy , and God knows what else for about 15 yrs. Had multiple injections in my back tec.... PAIN SUCKS !
All I know is that if I ever wind up off this stuff, ( and the day will come ), I'm going inpatient.
Whoever thought that one day I would need drugs for a reason other than just " getting high ". Life has a way of breaking even and then some.