Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:02 pm
| Diary of a Quitter wrote: |
| As far as researching on the internet goes – you are not going to find the same amount of success stories online as you will find horror stories |
That’s true. It even applies to people who get clean through other ways – NA / the 12 steps, rehab etc. Heaps of people in NA drift away from the rooms after a couple of years clean. Their lives just get so busy with work, family, friends etc that they find they don’t have as much time to "give back". They did a study that showed that the majority of clean people in NA drift away at around 2 years clean. Those that stay in the rooms are often the hardcore steps fiends, giving the newcomer a hard time. 
I know myself how hard it can be to find successful taper stories. But they’re out there! Even on the addiction support forum run by NAABT there’s a big compilation thread of heaps of people who tapered and are going strong, people who stayed on Suboxone as long as they needed to.
IMO if a person needs to be on Subox for 5+ years to build a strong recovery foundation, then that’s what it takes.
