Does anyone here take suboxone for opiate addiction?

Suboxone works. I have a niece who has struggled with addiction for years. It will help with dope sickness, but it wont cure you. There is no cure for addiction other than personal conviction. Suboxone will help with the cravings and the dope sickness though.

Good luck dude. beieve it or not, read up on Russell Brand. The guy is a comedic idiot, but he is a recovering addict and if you google him, you will find some pretty interesting stuff.

GOOD LUCK. GOD BLESS.

good friend of mine just jumped off subs a few months ago. It worked for him, but you are really just trading one addiction for a more manageable one. Once you get yourself straightened out to not go buy dope and get yourself in order taper off the subs till you get to a real low dose because those suck to come off of too.

I had a close relative go to the methadone. Don't know anything about suboxone though. I guess it worked. He turned his life around, kept a job, wife etc. But he has also relapsed many times with Loratabs. Still better than heroin though.

What was you on?

I don't know anything about suboxone or opiate addiction just wanted to wish you good luck.

If I were you I would go to rehab or remove yourself from your environment long enough to get clean. Too many people end up abusing suboxone and the withdrawal can be worse than opiate withdrawal. I've also struggled with opiate addiction for years and twice I've moved myself away, basically locked myself up for about 2 weeks and just went cold turkey. I only relapsed after the first time when I moved back home, got my old job back and was around the same people again. If you can even just take some time off work and you are able to make it through the first week I withdrawals then I promise you can do it. My advice would be to do that and then change your phone number, get rid of your contacts and have a true friend or family member who will hold you accountable. I realize it's not possible for everybody to move or get away for over a week or two, or put yourself into rehab, so if you can't do that then only use the subs for a couple weeks until you get through withdrawals because subs can be just as dangerous.

If you need anymore advice or would like another person to help hold you accountable my email is bowljacksontd@gmail.com

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I could explain examples but it depresses me to talk about it. So what do you guys think?

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I worked with Heroin addiction in New Orleans, Methadone Clinic. I wish you the best. You sound pretty sophisticated so you probably know you may find a support group helpful, folks who are committed to recovery also, so you can talk in DETAIL about what has happened with others who have their own secrets and shame.

Methadone addiction as you know is more difficult to kick than heroin, most don't make it off.

I know nothing about Suboxone but I do know you will need to completely, completely change associations with anyone or anything that is even remotely connected to your addiction.

I did something like this to quit smoking. Went from cigarettes to Nicotine lozenges, fully addicted to the lozenges and then began to cut back slowly till I could let them go.


Sleep, or lack of, is your biggest enemy. If you can get your normal sleep pattern back, Light - Deep and REM Sleep Cycle, without medication for sleep, your odds of making it are exponentially greater. I would be looking at some exotic exercise routines daily, along with careful food planning for meals as well as eating on a schedule and a strict bedtime and rise time. But that is just me.


You can do it. You can make it.

Start eating clean and hitting the gym every night. Make yourself too tired to go to the dope house. Idle hands are the devils workshop, so you have to find something positive to occupy what used to be your dope time.

Mrs. Tantal and I just quit drinking on July 1st. We aren't alcoholics or anything, but we used to drink nightly. We only quit because we're trying to drop some weight and alcohol has a shitload of calories. Now we go to the gym and hit the irons until about 9:00. By the time we're done, I'm too tired to stay up drinking. I know it's not the same as what you're dealing with, but the same concepts still apply.

email me at ray2kboaz@gmail.com i have been taking suboxone for awhile now..has saved my life..i was a HUGE drug addict..like on the needle and shite..it got bad before it got better..

Best of luck dude. Hope you're able to kick it.