Ran across this on a pharmacology article while reading about Methadone, levomethadyl acetate has a half life of 2.5 to 3.5 days and was used much like methadone except dosing was 3x or even just 2x a week! Dosage was about 1.3x the dose of whatever the persons methadone dose was. I read about a few users on opiophile who were on it but I'd like to see if anyone else has any input....Idk I find it really interesting, although I imagine if someone overdosed on this shit you'd have a narcan drip for 3 days straight :O.
Hi,
This post is so old... and so am I actually. I happened upon your question; I was an Orlaam patient a long, long time ago. The really weird thing about Orlaam (Laam), was when I told the Methadone Clinic back in 2003-4 (in San Francisco) that I had weighed the odds and felt coming into the city every 3 days, apposed to every single day (from Marin, other side of the GG Bridge) was far more beneficial. Methadone Clinics have those rules, about if you’re late etc. and hey, I am an addict, selfish and full of attitude; work around my schedule. NO .. no they certainly don’t make exceptions for ANYONE. So yeah I picked this extremely long acting, over prescribed, and basically relatively new sorta Methadone drug all for convenience ONLY! I was stupid, didn’t look into why they wanted an EKG from me [BTW Folks, if anyone asks you for an EKG before administering a drug, you need to research the HELL OUT OF IT!!!]. I was so excited, I didn’t even ask WHY, this non medical staff member was asking me for an EKG. I happened to work for a GP, so getting the EKG was easy, and believe it or not, felt normal.
Details? Content is a thick dark liquid. I couldn’t tell you now how much I was taking EXACTLY. But it was entirely too much! If I didn’t quickly slurp down the prune juice n Orlaam cocktail with extreme haste; drive back over the Golden Gate Bridge FAST, it would become too dangerous to drive. I’d wake up, in strange places, late for work, amnesia devoured my morning and I couldn’t recall blocks of time. I’m still so angry I drove like that. And they (the clinic) had to have known these side effects existed... yet never once asked me about them.
One day, maybe 6 months into my Orlaam Program, I was informed I would no longer be taking Laam. When I asked why, it was no longer a secret; the UK, and Canada had stopped dispensing the drug due to its side effects and heart problems. So the US FDA followed suit. They took me, and the other 3-4 people at that clinic taking Orlaam off of it pretty quickly. I don’t recall it being a painful withdrawal, I was just very confused. In fact, to this day, I’ll never understand what happened and to research it today, you’d think I was misinformed, talking about another drug completely, other than Orlaam, because what I’ve written here, about my experience, contradicts all web searches. I’ll leave that up to you, on if you think I’m confused or not.
Funny thing is, I can STILL taste that thick prune-like drug even after all these years. Very distinctive.
