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Comment on Help For Parents Of Addicts by admin

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:09:18 +0000

Thanks A lot! I hope that you enjoy.

Comment on Help For Parents Of Addicts by Teenage Drug Use

Teenage Drug Use — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:32:27 +0000

Awesome post Mike! Thanks for the review. I just purchased the book and look forward to reading it. I’ll keep you updated.

Comment on Methadone vs. Suboxone: What choice is best? by admin

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:46:39 +0000

Thank you for your honest comment! Suboxone is not for everyone, as you have described, and while I tend to not recommend Methadone to most, there are definitely folks like yourself that really do well with it. I could never get over really liking the “high” part of Methadone so it kept me in that drug seeking behavior. Good for you, and keep it up!

Comment on Methadone vs. Suboxone: What choice is best? by jimbo

jimbo — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:43:09 +0000

“Suboxone also causes withdrawal, but it’s generally milder than the types of withdrawal associated with full agonists.”
I beg to differ. Suboxone withdrawal was one of the worst withdrawal experiances I have ever had. I switched from methadone to Suboxone (waited 34 hours at reduced dose of the done,40mg`s) and went into precipitated withdrawal, I would rather die than go thru precipitated withdrawal again. I almost died in the hospital, they did the pattle/shock thing on my heart to get it beating again, and have never felt such pain and misery in my life. 2 days later went back to Doc`s office and we started me on the Subox; ended up at the max 32mg`s a day, was on that for 1.5 years and decided to go to a detox. Not many detoxes want to detox Subone . I`ve withdrawn from all of the opiates at one time or another, I`ve been a HARD-core opiate addict for over 29 years, so I have vast experiance in the field.
Suboxone was one of the worst withdrawals that I have ever been thru, about even with a 5 year methadone maint.(120mg`s a day) withdrawal. Way ,way harder than Heroin;Dilaudid 8mg`s; oxy-contin 80mg`s. I went thru the detox and the 28 day rehab(been thru at least 10 prior r`habs) and came home and that same day I was shooting Dilaudid. I got back on the methadone maint. program the next day and I am up to 1 month of take home doses of 80mg per day. Life has never been better. But you have to take your medicine correctly and want to quit getting high for the Methadone program to work. I have never known this kind of life, I don`t even think about dope now. And if I do I only see the bad stuff that goes along with it , not the good. Methadone has saved my life. And GOD too of course. I look at my methadone the same way I look at my high blood pressure medicine, if I don`t take them like I am directed to , I can die. Okay enough rambling, thanks . Jimbo!

Comment on How To Get Into A Suboxone Program – Suboxone Information by Laurette Conklin

Laurette Conklin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:17:07 +0000

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