Methadone
User's Guide to Suboxone [K] [i] [n]
Jeffrey T Junig MD PhD (Kindle Edition) Terminally Unique Publishing 2009-09-21
Release date: 2009-09-21
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From my research it seems that Suboxone is safer, fits into your life better (no standing in line at 5am) and does not have the severe withdrawals that methadone users experience. I would like some real life answers..it is to get off of the roller coaster of pain pill addiction. How expensive is Suboxone w/o insurance?
sub is "easier' to get, meaning you only need to see a doctor once a month to get it instead of going to a clinic daily.
However, they are both super long lasting opiates and both produce severe and very long lasting withdrawals once you try to discontinue them.
Most sub doctors are charging about $200 per office visit (for a 10 minute visit just to write a script) and the pills cost about $7 for an 8mg tablet at a pharmacy.
Getting off pain pills is a 30 day roller coaster ride, and getting off sub or methadone is a 2 year roller coaster ride...a very bumpy ride that most can't tolerate.
You also will have all the same side effects on sub or methadone you have on pain pills, plus usually some new ones.
I would strongly recommend you look at other options. I went the sub route after being filled with lies from doctors about how great it is, and it robbed me of 5 years of my life.
If i had to do it all over again, I would go inpatient to detox for 30 days, or less, and be done with it. No one ever wants to go inpatient and be away from their family and loved ones for that long, but compared to sub or meth, 30 days of your life is a breeze.
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Former drug users in Russia are pushing for the increased use of methadone to help those on heroin beat their addiction. Some have even taken the ...
I know that some doctors claim that it has better resaults than a baby born addicted to street drugs. Now if the mother comes into the program already pregnant than YES by all means help her get clean. But I also think that it should be manditory for ALL unpregnant women entering the program to be on some method of birth control. Simple as that you want the methadone get on and stay on the pill. Whats one pill a day or one shot a month compared to stopping the suffering of an innocent little baby?
Call me a Naxi but I believe in force sterilization. In general, any children born from a methadone user is bound to be screwed up.
What are the problems??
I didn't have a problem with it at all - it just didn't work as well as morphine does, so I went back to the pain clinic that would prescribe morphine.
Methadone withdrawl symptoms
They have flu like symptoms!They can become shaky,chillor even have seizure like symptoms, they also sweatand stay thirsty.It's a horrible sight and alot of times its scary but they just have to suffer through it until it gets out of there system
What about Y!A users HUH?!? ......Just what are they offered ?!?!.......
.................... i really need to quit............
WE ARE TAKING A BREATHER
Happy Christmas? Not for 9000 Methadone Users | Confessions of a ...
. A friend visited recently with her husband who happens to be afraid of heights. He was half way across the rope bridge when he froze – unable to go backwards or forwards. He slowly sank to his knees and gripped onto the walkway with both hands. I know. It makes absolutely no sense, but phobias generally don’t have a rational explanation.
At precisely that moment, a very large American visitor decided to cross. Seeing my friend’s husband kneeling, he began to jump up and down on the walkway, causing the bridge to sway violently from side to side. The terrified, kneeling man looked up and asked (as you would):” The American visitor said he’d assumed that the guy kneeling was an inspection engineer checking out the bridge and he wanted to give it a good ‘try out’. He thought he was helping. Sometimes you think you are helping when you are actually hurting. Let’s look at how this principle applies in the distribution of free methadone to drug mis-users.
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Drug addicts turned away from methadone programsGeelong Advertiser - Jan 16, 2011
But program assessment officers are still turning away hundreds of users each year because of a lack of funding in the Geelong region.New York Times - Jan 17, 2011
Inadequate Fight Against Drugs Hampers Russia's Ability to Curb HIVThe country's top medical and political officials have roundly condemned drug substitution therapy for heroin addicts — the use of methadone or other and more »Independent - Jan 18, 2011
He urged contestants to adopt a policy of "circumspect inaction", something akin to urging a heroin addict to ignore the phial of methadone an arm's length and more »Bloomberg - Jan 15, 2011
Father goes underground to seek son's killersHolgado first met Asencio as he sat on steps outside a clinic where heroin-users got methadone treatment. He won Asencio's trust, driving him around to buy and more »Korea Times - Jan 10, 2011
Eastern Europe's ostrich policy on HIVIf IDUs inject heroin or related opiates ― as is primarily the case in Eastern Europe ― establishing opiate substitution programs with methadone or and more »
The Sun - Jan 17, 2011
But last night shame-faced Marvin claimed he'd resorted to scoring an illegal hit because he'd missed getting his METHADONE prescription. and more »
Viet Nam News - Jan 07, 2011
The clinic will provide comprehensive treatment for 250 drug users in the district as well as neighbouring districts, including methadone maintenance and more »