I started taking methadone about a year ago from a friend and now I dont know what to do! Is there some kind of prescription you can get to ease the withdrawl symptoms? Help
2007-03-19 02:39:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
You don't want to go through detox alone. I HIGHLY suggest that you do this at a medical facility. Without proper control, you could hurt or kill yourself during detox or break and take so much that you have an overdose.
2007-03-19 02:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could go to a methadone clinic and do a 21 day detox. This would drop 1mg or so of your daily intake each day or so until you were taking none. You would also receive drug counseling and possibly meds to ease any remaining withdrawal symptoms.
Suboxone or Subutex (different formulas of buprenorphine) can be used to get off methadone but then you are still dependent on the daily buprenorphine. Should you decide to quit the buprenorphine at some point in time then you need to be aware it has a lesser withdrawal intensity than methadone but withdrawal does last a long time. Also you have to go with no methadone for 48 hrs or be on a very low dosage of methadone before starting buprenorphine or you risk having precipitated withdrawals from the antagonist effects of the buprenorphine. Buprenorphine therapy is expensive so unless you have good medical insurance you should be prepared to pay 100.-150. a week for treatment.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a605002.html
http://www.methadone.org/library/buprenorphine_patient_info.html
You have to be very mentally motivated to get off drugs for a 21 day methadone detox to work. You don't want to end up on methadone maintenance unless you plan on visiting a clinic daily for a very long time. Good luck with your decision to get off methadone.
2007-03-20 15:58:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are very,very strong you will not be able to do this without help. There is a drug called buprenorphine which has been approved for this use within the last 2 years. It does its job well. Doctors had to take an online course to be able to prescribe it. Some people are kept on it continually and others are put on it and then gradually reduced until they are free of it. Between 1993 +1998 I participated in the clinical trials for this drug three times. You will be happy with the results I think. I did the clinical trials because I was as yet undiagnosed with a severe spine condition which took them 23 years to properly diagnose. Back then it would come on and then go away for several months. During this reprive I would go to the Bupe clinic to get clean of the drugs I used for intolerable pain. I am now diagnosed with a spine disease which will never get better and there are no more breaks from it. I will be in a chair in a few years. At this time after getting no relief with morphine, I am on a dose of methadone of 140mg a day. When entering the Bupe clinic I was usually either using methadone or morphine or oxycontin. The bupe really works well. You will have no withdrawal at all and thats what you want believe me. You can go online to your states health dept. and get a list of the doctors in your area who participate in the Buprenorphine program. Good Luck!
2007-03-19 06:50:17 · answer #3 · answered by Born2Bloom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should seek treatment for this fast. It is a hard thing to admit to anyone but it could save your life. I don't think Methadone is anything to be messing around with, expecially when it isn't under supervision of a doctor. My cousin just died a week ago from taking this drug! She also got it from a friend. She was 21 years old and 9 months pregnant. Get help before it is to late!
2007-03-19 03:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by cdsin77 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can see if your doctor will prescribe you ceboxins I was addicted to oxycotins wich is a much more stronger pain med. than methadone and I had to by the ceboxins from the street they worked, and the good thing is you only have to take them for a week one pill once a day for 5 days, I dont know if i spelled it right but it sound like seh-box-in
2007-03-19 07:46:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Methadone is a very strong narcotic. We detox patients under anesthesia , please check www.opiates.com. The only other way I have seen it successfully is 1 milligram a week.
2007-03-22 08:30:27 · answer #6 · answered by Clare W 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go to rehab, sorry its the only answer on this one
2007-03-19 05:40:36 · answer #7 · answered by usamedic420 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋