Author: setmefree
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:26 am
In my humble opinion, what I found "irresponsible" about "opidroid’s" comments about how much worse Sub w/d is when compared to Heroin w/d, is that nowhere in the post did "opidroid" mention ever being addicted to Heroin. The OP implied that Suboxone was his/her drug of choice and that he/she only used Heroin on occassion when he/she had no access to Sub. That makes me wonder how could the OP even know what full-blown cold-turkey w/d from Heroin is like? I didn’t read anywhere in that post where the OP had in fact ever detoxed straight off Heroin.
I would never argue with anothe person’s experience in withdrawal from this that or the other…..It’s way to subjective. But I do need to have a good idea of what the whole story behind the experience was, in order to forumulate an opinion regarding whether or not something sounds reasonable or not.
I don’t recall reading many stories of anyone coming off a steady dose of buprenorphine over around 2mg/day and not having had a pretty rough go of the w/d for many weeks even. I don’t think anyone who has much experience with the drug would argue that it tends to be rough and long and drawn out when w/d from bupe.
On the other hand, I think we’d be pretty hard-pressed to find someone who cold-turkey detoxed off hefty doses of full-agonist opiates (including Heroin) who didn’t swear that that detox was as brutal as Hell either. I can personally testify to my own cold-turkey detox with zero comfort meds off large amounts of oxycodone, hydrocone, IV Fentanyl, IV Demerol, Soma, IV Dilaudid and IV Morphine (the latter two being used only minimally as not my faves.) It was the toughest thing I’ve ever endured in my life and the acute phase was rather lengthy and was followed by six months of severe PAWS, depression, amotivation, etc. I cannot phathom anything being any worse than that was at this point. That’s not to say that detoxing from Sub won’t be…..I haven’t completely done it, so I don’t know yet.
I just have to wonder if the detox from Heroin which the OP refers to which was so much easier than the Sub detox, might have been a bit skewed because perhaps buprenorphine played a role in that detox. Perhaps that Heroin detox wasn’t so bad because Sub was taken at some point during it. I’m just speculating, but if the OP knew that the Heroin was so much easier…..why did he/she not just detox from the Herion rather than the Sub? Just a thought.
Opidroid, If you’re still around, would you mind coming back and clarifying a little bit? That would be great.
