Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:09 pm
Don’t even bother with the Weisman method. It’s a rort. They basically give a person naltrexone to precipitate withdrawal, but they do it under anaesthesia. It does not work There are horror stories about this. It’s absolutely predatorial how some places continue to run this treatment. I’ve heard three main outcomes from rapid detox. Often they don’t give enough anaesthesia, so the person remains awake through the ordeal, which is not pleasant. Then they find that at the end of the 24 hours, they’re still detoxing, and have to be wheel-chaired to the taxi a blubbering mess. Thirdly, people die from this process, choking on their vomit etc. Even more die from an overdose afterwards because of their tolerance being reset.
And no matter the outcome, nobody gets their money back. I had a friend who’s family sent him all the way to Israel to do this miracle cure when it first came out. On the plane back he was a shivvering mess, still in withdrawal, and he dodged his parents waiting in the terminal, got into a taxi and went to score. A waste of thousands of dollars. He said in his 15 years of using heroin, he’d never been ripped off that bad!
The naltrexone implant has potential, but I have still heard lots of bad things. It’s one of those treatment adjuncts that requires a lot of motivation, and readiness to get clean. If a person wants to use on the implant, they still can, they just use dangerous amounts. Most people just abuse other drugs – meth, cocaine, benzos – until it wears off, or take huge quantities to over-ride it. Some people do well with the implants. But they need to keep getting them for a couple of years at least. It’s much higher risk than Suboxone. A person can easily overdose if they relapse when the implant wears off. The implants often get "rejected" from the body, and must be removed in ER. They never get refunds either. Worst of all, I’ve known more than one person who has literally opened up their skin and ripped out their implant so they could use. If there’s ever proof we’re just as desperate as those addicted mice – in – cages, that’s it.
I spent a lot of time once researching these addiction "cures". There’s no easy way to get clean. There’s also a reason most people are on Suboxone.
