Opioid Addiction PSA

ive been addicted to codeine for 7 years, and finally admitted it to my family and dr. i was taking 40 30mg tabs a day so the dr has put me on a substitute called dihyrocodeine continuous which i take 240mgs twice a day. no more withdrawls but i have swollen ankles and painfull joints. does anyone know anything about this drug.

For anyone scared of quitting due to withdrawls, etc. but still want to, if you can get buprenorphine, get it, and do it. You will have to stop your other opiates for 12 to 24 hours first, or you will go thru HORRIBLE withdrawls if you take the buprenorphine too early b4 the other opiates are out of your system. But once you start the bup. for most people, it works WONDERS. You will be glad you did. For some, methadone works well, for others, buprenorphine.
Trust me, buprenorphine is a Godsend

Justin from buffalo, there is alot of programs if you look in the phone book under holistic medicine you can find a doctor that will help you.Why I say holistic is most of them perscribe suboxone.If you dont want to go to a horizon group and be monitered frequently you can see one of these doctors.They will monitor you but not as severe.The downside they usually dont take insurance they usually make you pay cash and can be pricy first visit like 250 and then 65 dollars after first visit.

wow thanx for your reply, if u don'tmind telling me, how long & how much were you taking of the suboxone & you stopped cold turkey w/ no withdrawal symtoms?

I don´t take subo anymore, the last time I took it was..hm...I think 4 months ago.
I now live with a good friend together and we both make our abitur...away from my parents, that helped a lot. Now I just take Bromazanil, but just in very bad times. And I must say I had no problems or sideeffects when I quit taking subo. I still think it´s a good thing, but it always depends on your personality.

do you take it all the time what happens if you can't get it from your friend do you get w/ds

are u off the suboxone now or r u still taking it & if so how will you get off the suboxone?

Iv'e used cocaine (insuffalated) for ten yeras...since I was 13. It burned a hole through my bridge. For the past 4 months I've been snorting 4-5 bags of heroin... Recently I was aressted in Chicago for buying a jab...Today I got on Suboxone...No lie, the craving is gone after takin 16 mgs!

Saved my life and I tried everything I was the worst PoS imaginable I thank God everyday for this almost 3 yrs clean now .

How high a dose were you on?, on 1 mg (a 2 cut in half)a day. I sometimes even forget to take it.

Hey, I don't know about everyone else, but it works great for me, even better than methadone. I sometimes even forget to take it, if it wasn't for the disconfort I feel from arthritist, I forget to take it sometimes.

I´ve never been on heroin but I´m taking suboxone (from a friend) to fight my strong depressions and it works...it´s the only thing that has helped me, but it´s makin´ me so numb but the pain isn´t there anymore....I don´t know

I used 80mg-160+ (up to 240mg) of oxycontin a day, or K4 hydromorphone-dilaudid's.. at first i was just taking oxy by snorting it, once i started to inject the drug though things went down hill fast, i started injecting k4's but prefered oxys, it got bad so fast in only 4 months i was stealing and withdraws were bad, but i got on suboxone and have been clean 5 months!

alot of my friends are on suboxone and say it helps them alot. i've taken it in dsetox and it has helped alot. i've tried to contact doctors that prescribe this medication but everytime i contact them they have no openings. i was in rehab about 2 months ago and they had suggested i take this medication for maitenance and my outpatient suggested it also. i just dont know what to do anymore. if anyones in the buffalo new york area and knows a way to help please contact me.-Justin

This needs to be on cable and use the word suboxone. Thats how they know it on the street. It worked for me after trying to quit with methadone. I tell all kinds of people and leave paperwork every I go so anyone can read it.

Suboxone won't make you want to quit only allow someone to quit if they want to. Counseling is still an important component. Withdrawal is actually symptoms of brain alterations caused by chronic drug taking. Suboxone suppresses these symptoms, of course, if you stop taking it, the symptoms will reemerge. Suboxone is not causing the withdrawal, it is from the brain changes that existed before you ever took the sub. After years of addiction it was the only thing that allowed me to stop.
Jake

When I first Started Takin Suboxone It worked miracles. But For some reason, after awhile The Urge to get high Out weighed My urgre to stay clean and I stopped takin It, and went back to using. I got back on em about a month before I went to rehab. The rehab I went to was 100% percent abstanance from all drugs. Evenin after weaning off the suboxone I went through some pretty horrible withdrawls. Alot of people dont realise this. Suboxone does have withdrawls.

works for me too.

it works