Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:33 am
Me personally, I’d consider it a bad idea. It still shows there’s a desire to get high.
However, it’s no reason to stop Suboxone. If you let yourself stabilise on a dose, eventually you will stop feeling its agonist buzz. IMO, it’s only then that recovery starts blooming. By learning to fight the urge to abuse your Suboxone, you’re actually learning to prevent relapse in the future. Developing these craving refusal skills can be used heaps in your life, if you one day choose to taper, or feel the desire to use other addictive drugs.
I think we really need to tread carefully when it comes to self-medicating with buprenorphine, and straying from our prescribed dose. If we ever have to, we really need to examine our motives. Personally, I just don’t do it at all. I take whatever the script tells me, nothing more, nothing less. If I desire to change something, I tell my doctor, and let him call the shots. Drug addiction is an attempt at self-medication, whether it’s heroin, speed, vicodin, buprenorphine. For me, I had to learn to "let go" of control of what drugs I used, and how much I used, and when, in order to grow out of addiction. That way I’m not abusing Suboxone, I’m just using it.
