Opiate Addiction: Methadone & Heroin Facts

opiate addiction - Important information about methadone and heroin. Methadone is used to treat addiction to heroin and other drugs.

Kicking an opiate addiction?
MOM is 98 years old. She has been on Lorazipan for 6 years since dad died to quiet her nerves.NOW her skin is a crawling itching mess. What can she replace the opiates with that will let her mind settle so she can sleep, but also GOD KNOWS HOW, let her slowly allow the addiction to pass from her body. Heavy question, yes the Doctor is looking also, I am hoping for ALL the input I can get. Thanks, Again mom is 98 years old

Boyfriend with opiate addiction... Please take the time to read.?
Boyfriend with a drug addiction.. Please take the time to read.?I met my boyfriend 6 years ago. We dated for a year when I was 14 and then began dating again last August. During our time away from each other he developed an opiate addiction, specifically oxy and then eventually to heroin smoking it . He was clean of opiates for about 5 months before we got together again, but began smoking a lot of weed. He also suffers from depression and bipolar disorder. His dad is a recovering heroin addict 12 years clean , while his mom has been a meth addict for 15 years. Around the end of March he admitted to me that he had slipped up on heroin a few times since we had gotten back together. I was absolutely devastated, but didn't want to give up on him. He has been taking Suboxone since then, but has admitted to also taking percocet.My question is how to go about this issue. It's hard for me to just leave him because I want to try to help him and be a positive influence in his life. I believe he truly wants to get clean, but because of his history and family it's made in very hard for him. What type of doctor's would be good for him to see? An addiction specialist, psychiatrist, or psychologist? He just got health insurance for his work Starbucks .Thanks.

	Methadone is a synthetic opioid used medically as a painkiller, but also to treat patients on opioids such as heroin.

What do u think about methadone as an alternative to opiate addiction?


I am in early recovery from opiate addiction, why is my sex drive gone?
I've been with my boyfriend for over 2 and a half years and our sex life has been rather satisfying, but after detoxing off of opiates after a couple years of using on a daily basis and going through rehab, I don't want to have sex and the thought of having sex causes me great anxiety. Why is this happening and what should I do? Please help because my boyfriend feels incredible insecure now and I'm terrified to lose him.

How do you prove and opiate addiction?
I have been one heroin for 2 and a half years, I have been mainlining oxycontin for the past 3 months because I cant get ahold of heroin from my regular dealer. I am ready to quit so I called a methadone clinic to get an appointment, I have been withdrawing for 3 days now and its killing me. The clinic cant fit me in for 2 weeks. Should I not use? Its so hard, I want to so bad. But my question is, if I dont use..the drugs will be out of my system and I will have no proof, they say you must have been using a year and have evidence of opiate addiction. SHould I use so I will have evidence? What evidence do they mean?I really want to quit, but without this I will use.

How does someone kick an opiate addiction?


Long term mental effects of opiate addiction?
I couldn't find any of the specific answers I wanted. I got a few questions. Is it possible to fully recover from addiction? What I mean is can someone get back to being happy, peaceful, spiritual, religious, etc...the way they were before ever becoming an addict? Is it possible that the cravings for ones drug of choice will ever fully subside?I ask because I am an addict. I've been in recovery for well over 1 year, yet I still constantly think about and crave my drug of choice and feel like I will be emotionally numb forever now.

Whats worse alcohol addiction or opiate addiction?


Cans someone answer some questions about opiate addiction?
My boyfriend and I both are Heroin addicts. I know, nothing to be proud of but at least I admit it. I am in the recovery process. I had to go the Methadone route as a last resort. I've been on it for 2 years and finally started detoxing and now I'm at a low enough dose that I can get high on heroin again usually methadone blocks the " high" . My boyfriend is always on and off it all the time and won't try Methadone. He was doing well and now he's used 6 days straight about $50 worth each day. I don't think that's that much. He says he's " dope sick" now. I think it's mostly mental. If he stops again now, how long will he feel sick? I know it's nothing like someone that's been using for a long time or using hundreds of dollars worth a day?Also, do you think I should give my boyfriend an ultimatum? The only reason why I used again is because I knew he could get it for me but I wasn't fiending so I wouldn't have sought it out myself. My final question is why does Heroin make a lot of people so irritable even when they are on it? He's untolerable when he's high. He's a real jerk. It would make sense if he was sick and acting this way but he gets so mean when he's high on it. The other day I had to save his life because he " nodded" off while eating fell asleep with a big hunk of candy bar in his mouth and was choking to death. I gave him the Heimlach and it flew out. It was so scary though, he was turnig blue and mnaking starange noises. I was so scared afterwards that I yelled at him and told him that I hated him and he told me off. It was just so avoidable and he scared me and that's why I told him this WHAT CAN I DO BESIDES JUST " DUMPING HIM" ? Oh, he also has makes only $8 an hour and he can't afford rehab.

Reducing opiate addiction (subutex/buprenorphine) rapidly?
Hi, I have been using buprenorphine for one year now and I have decided to stop, I have reduced my dosage from 8mg per day to 0.3mg per day over one week and have now ran out.I am feeling not as bad as I thought I would but have the typical 'rattling' signs such as constant stretching, yawning, nausea, violent sneezing, runny nose, watering eyes, hot and frosty sweats, lethargy, painful itching and general aches, however I am able to fight these symptoms by going about my daily duties.I have been using 5mg of diazapam per day to combat the sleep issue and 30 500 co codamol to act as some form of substitute to keep the stomach pains at bay.I wish to know given the time I reduced, the length of my habit and my current replacement scheme, how long the withdrawal syndrome will last.Awaiting reply, thanks in advance.I'm afraid I wasn't using it for withdrawal, I was 7 weeks clean before I used it, sorry I didn't mention this.

How do you help someone with a severe opiate addiction?
He can't afford inpatient, which is the best I heard. He is on a path to destruction the rate he's going. Been a decade long addiction..What can be done?????

I'm 14 with an ugly opiate addiction?
I've been addicted to opiates since I was 12 years old. I just got off probation, have been to rehab, group homes, and I have come to so many realizations but at every stress, anxiety filled situation I find myself wanting that feeling. I relapsed a month ago and just got my life on track. I'm about to turn 15 and I don't want to break now.. how am I going to live the rest of my life like this?

My best friend has opiate addiction and has a child?
A good friend of mine has an addiction to pain killers and she wants to get sober and recover very bad. She had came to me because I have had a family member go through this before and my family member has been clean for almost a year now god bless em. My question is, is that she has a child and she is afraid if she goes and gets help that she is going to get in trouble for being a mother and an addict ie getting her child taken away . Hey we all make mistakes and I told her she should have nothing to worry about because it should be all confidential and plus she is going to get help with it. Does anyone have any insight or personal experience with this type of issue so I can giver her a little bit more insight? Thank you

Would taking 1mg Suboxone, to help PAWS, reverse repair of your brain due to opiate addiction?
I've taken poppy tea for about 2 years. I stopped cold turkey last April. And started using occationally 2 pods , about once a week Fridays . That quickly turned into up to 7 10 every other day until a month ago I quit.I took Suboxone for a week to get past the bad WD's, and now i'm in PAWS. I've been clean for a month of poppy tea, and have no desire to take it again.Here is what i'm taking to help PAWS B12Multivitamin with 600mg LycopeneMilk Thistle 2 3 times a day with 3 square mealsVitamin C 500mgBefore I was not taking any vitamins, nor eating for a few days at a time. I've actually lost 12 lbs since I stopped the tea and started eating normal. Lots of fruit, vegetables, and TONS of water, and Gatorade. Also, I have been running jogging every nice er day I get here. If it sucks outside, I exercise inside. I've read all about PAWS, so don't think I'm not a educated on whats going on inside my body and brain.Right now my PAWS symptoms are gooseflesh, cant regulate my temperature, RLS that is pins and needles, that sometimes goes to my hands. I know it's RLS because klonopin stops it. Also some days a full body ache.My big question is, I have 1 8mg suboxone left. If I would take 1mg or .5mg on REALLY bad days, would that reverse the repair process im heading towards? Because I know my brain is waiting for that " instant fix" . I need my brain to fire normally, but sometimes it's unmanageable with all the things going on in my life. And being cold in 90 degree weather in the sun REALLY sucks. If I give it an instant fix every once in a while like once a month or once a week or two of .5 1mg Suboxone, will my brain still stop making Melatonin, Endorphins, and all the other chemicals that it's now not making?I know I have tons of stuff still in my colon and bowels. I was constipated for 2 years. I've been going about 5 times daily instead of once every 4 days, so i'm ridding my body of that. I'm more worried about repairing my brain so I can live a normal life.