The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers
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#2I started taking suboxone 5 months ago and it (almost literally) saved my life. Before finding out about it, I thought I was going to be stuck in a hell-hole of heroin dependence forever. You wake up one day and realize that you are completely fucked, and that there's nothing in the world to help you. Suboxone changed that. I started taking it, with no/minimal side-effects, and immediately stopped doing heroin, stopped craving heroin, stopped everything. Finally, I can live in peace without there being a short-fused time bomb just waiting to blow up inside of me.
Thanks to suboxone, I can program and think and live again.
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#3I started taking suboxone 5 months ago and it (almost literally) saved my life. Before finding out about it, I thought I was going to be stuck in a hell-hole of heroin dependence forever. You wake up one day and realize that you are completely fucked, and that there's nothing in the world to help you. Suboxone changed that. I started taking it, with no/minimal side-effects, and immediately stopped doing heroin, stopp…
So does this mean that the opiate addiction is still present, but satisfied by suboxone? In other words, if you stopped taking suboxone, would the heroin craving come back?
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#4I started taking suboxone 5 months ago and it (almost literally) saved my life. Before finding out about it, I thought I was going to be stuck in a hell-hole of heroin dependence forever. You wake up one day and realize that you are completely fucked, and that there's nothing in the world to help you. Suboxone changed that. I started taking it, with no/minimal side-effects, and immediately stopped doing heroin, stopp…
If you don't mind me asking, do you continue to take it? Or if not, how did you know when to stop?
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#5I started taking suboxone 5 months ago and it (almost literally) saved my life. Before finding out about it, I thought I was going to be stuck in a hell-hole of heroin dependence forever. You wake up one day and realize that you are completely fucked, and that there's nothing in the world to help you. Suboxone changed that. I started taking it, with no/minimal side-effects, and immediately stopped doing heroin, stopp…
So does this mean that the opiate addiction is still present, but satisfied by suboxone? In other words, if you stopped taking suboxone, would the heroin craving come back?
Heroin cravings never leave, it's the physical withdrawal you want to avoid.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
So does this mean that the opiate addiction is still present, but satisfied by suboxone? In other words, if you stopped taking suboxone, would the heroin craving come back?
Heroin cravings never leave, it's the physical withdrawal you want to avoid.
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#7I started taking suboxone 5 months ago and it (almost literally) saved my life. Before finding out about it, I thought I was going to be stuck in a hell-hole of heroin dependence forever. You wake up one day and realize that you are completely fucked, and that there's nothing in the world to help you. Suboxone changed that. I started taking it, with no/minimal side-effects, and immediately stopped doing heroin, stopp…
So does this mean that the opiate addiction is still present, but satisfied by suboxone? In other words, if you stopped taking suboxone, would the heroin craving come back?
Yes, the addiction is still present. If I stop taking suboxone I will start feeling a little bad (depression, etc) by day 2 and will start withdrawing (feels like a really bad cold) on day 3. By day 4, I would be throwing up and unable to move/function.
The only downside of suboxone is that due to its long half-life, the withdrawals last a long, long time. With heroin you are out of the woods by day 4 or 5, but with suboxone, withdrawels last weeks/months.
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#8'Reindeerspotting' is a good watch if anybody's interested. Subutex/Suboxone has its merits, but it's not a silver bullet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeerspotting:_Escape_from_S...
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#9I started taking suboxone 5 months ago and it (almost literally) saved my life. Before finding out about it, I thought I was going to be stuck in a hell-hole of heroin dependence forever. You wake up one day and realize that you are completely fucked, and that there's nothing in the world to help you. Suboxone changed that. I started taking it, with no/minimal side-effects, and immediately stopped doing heroin, stopp…
If you don't mind me asking, do you continue to take it? Or if not, how did you know when to stop?
Yes I still take it and have not lowered my dose since going on it. I've noticed that my mood on it is much higher than it was before I started doing the heroin (which I started in the first place because I was depressed and suicidal), leading me to believe that it has significant anti-depressant potential even in opiate-tolerant individuals. Also, there's some history in the literature of it being an effective anti-depressant[1]. I haven't lowered the dose or stopped it because I am afraid I will end up in the same situation as I was before and start using again.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suboxone#Antidepressant_potenti...
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#10"The government spent tens of millions of dollars developing Suboxone."
Where is this coming from? It was developed by a private company.