Opiate Addiction: Methadone & Heroin Facts

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

Has anyone used Suboxone for opiate addiction , basically to prevent withdrawals? Please explain.?
Right now i'm being slowly taken off opiates by my doctor who is just giving me lorcet 10 650's and reducing the dose every two weeks. A friend of mine told me suboxone is wonderful for preventing withdrawals and getting off pain meds. If you have any experience personally with this I would really appreciate your advice and explaination of why you think its a good decision or bad decision to do. If you havent used it then please dont answer unless you are a doctor or pharmacist.

Does having an opiate addiction make you feel more pain than there really is?

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

How to get over opiate addiction, im already taking the thomas' recipe?
I was in an accident about 7 years ago leaving me with ongoing pain and now that ive been taking the meds oxy contin for so long via injection and in the area between 600 1000 mgs a day. now it is just withdrawing that i worry about because i am used to the pain i suppose but just need some help quitting all together. ive quit for 30 days straight due to jail and was still in the WD's when i got out.... what in the world do i do, if you can help please do.... i know meetings and the 12steps cause ive been to treatment 5 6 times but just cant seem to kick it... please help if there is any for me.... thanks a million

Which is better for opiate addiction suboxone or methadone?


More specifically, help with opiate addiction please help me.?
ok my last question wasn't detailed very well i guess, i want to have a baby eventually not to fill a void but to have a familly. but i am on methadone, a low dose, i am drug free, the methadone makes me feel normal not high, I have tried to quit pain killers many times but am lazy, cant eat or sleep and basicaaly cannot get off couch for months I have heard from doc and others that my chances of my baby having withdrawal is low, and the only babies that are put on a drip is on very high dosesif u get preg on meth they will not let you come off, as it poses more risk. I cannot quit i have tried, believe me i would love to but my brain is depleted of chemicals normal pl have and i care about nothing when off of it but i cant stand being on my butt for 24 hours i go insane i have to work, cook clean, etc. even showering is a chore when i am off this crap, has anyone ever successfully quit methadone opiates, how? does anyone know of anyone who has had a baby on low meth dose, how were thalso i have tried everthing, rehab, counselling, groups every one i have quit cocaine and tat was a walk in the park as there was no withdrawal really i have been clean off that for over a year the opiates is impossible it seems though. Plus i would take enough opiaes prior to methadone that i am surprised i never overdosed and if it wasnt for methadone i'd probably be dead. Thought that would help.

What are the signs of opiate addiction?
I have a friend and they had been prescribed percocet a moth ago for an elbow injury which is now all healed. Lately they have had dark, baggy eyes, lost a littttttle weight and a couple times after hanging out with her at my house she has just fallen asleep outaa no where

After opiate addiction, how soon should I expect to get a regular menstrual cycle?
I was recently addicted to opiates and have quit completely. I was using them for about a year and six months into my addiction I stopped having my menstral cycle. I have now been clean for over a month and have not had my menstral cycle start again. Has anyone had this addiciton or heard about it and have had it come back? Or is this a permanent thing that I have done to my body because of my drug addiction?

Hi i am on suboxone 8mgs for opiate addiction, because is is a sublingual tablet i find it very hard to bare?
it tastes so bad is there any other way is can be absorbed into the system please help,

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.

Can marijuana be used to ease withdrawals due to opiate addiction?
The specific opiate that I'm wondering about is vicodin hydrocodone .

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

Anyone else find suboxone to be the most effective treatment for opiate addiction?


Can suboxone be taken to help with opiate addiction?
I'm a hydrocodone addict for about a year now,3 4x daily 10mg.I can feel im pretty mentally and emotionally dependent.Once,I went 3 days with only a percocet .5mg and it was hell in my head.I want to quit,but without rehab and professional help.I've beaten xanax and cigarettes cold turkey,but struggle with this..My question is If I take small amounts of Suboxone daily,and make sure i dont let myself get adapted mentally to the suboxone,can I drop the codeine alltogether?I know suboxone is dangerous just like methadone and is a completely different drug I just need to know if this is a possible route?Thank youplease no critisism.No i am not prescribed opiates,purely recreational and the root of the problem is my mother and father dieing.

Opiate addiction. I hate it?
I'm 13. In the past 6 7 months I've gone from recreational pothead to heroin addict. I started off taking a few vicodns to relax, but I ran out of the bottle I stole and vicodins are hard to find on the street. So I went to 30mg oxycontin, but that got expensive quick. A guy I know told me heroin does the same thing fro much cheaper. I tried it and I was hooked, I snort it everyday. I hate it, I'm not going to rehab and I'm not telling my parents. Should I stop heroin cold turkey and get a weaker opaite like Codeine and wean myself off of it slowly?Thanks.