Opioids Do drugs like bupe and suboxone get you high?

[JoshLobbs]

Do popular opioid replacement drugs such as bupe, suboxone and methadone get you high or do they only reduce the symptoms of withdrawal?

Like I've heard that they have helped lots of people with withdrawing from opioids but do they have a high/euphoria associated with them? Are they like how Narcen or imodium are opioids but they dont cause euphoria, or are they a less euphoric opioid that works as a stepping stone to get off of opium?

 

[Dsafdg]

Bupe only got me “high” the first couple days, then I just felt normal.. I think methadone is the one that people tend to get buzzed off of for a longer period of time but I’m not 100% sure as I’ve never tried it. My friend use to buy my bupe to get high on when she couldn’t get oxy, so you could get high on it but people that use it for maintenance don’t get high from it after using it as intended for a week maaaybe 2.

 

[Kushman3000]

Do popular opioid replacement drugs such as bupe, suboxone and methadone get you high or do they only reduce the symptoms of withdrawal?

Like I've heard that they have helped lots of people with withdrawing from opioids but do they have a high/euphoria associated with them? Are they like how Narcen or imodium are opioids but they dont cause euphoria, or are they a less euphoric opioid that works as a stepping stone to get off of opium?

Bupe is a great tool for W/D. You can be in W/d and take a bupe strip and be good for a few days. Its also used for some chronic pain patients that respond well to its effects. For me it just give me a boost of energy but no high.

 

[burn out]

Bupe gets you high if your tolerance is low enough, you can get absolutely blasted on it if you take a large dose after being clean for a while. Those with opioid tolerances don't get high, they get "glow". For me if I was taking it for a while or taking too high a dose or too frequently I would get almost nothing from it. In order to feel each dose, you have to take very small doses and spread them out, then you get a little boost from it and if you took a large dose you could catch a buzz but of course then you'd screw up your tolerance for the next few days.

Never taken methadone.

 

[Nas47]

First days a little bit high.After-normal.Methadone gets me high way stronger

 

[G_Chem]

When I tried bupe with no tolerance it fucked me up but was nowhere near a high I wanted to continue using. Made me dizzy and nauseous with zero euphoria.

Then when I had a good H habit and tried it while in WD it relieved my symptoms in a way that had me high simply cuz I could go about my day. Bupe high is more about functioning with a light buzz in the background.

-GC

 

[Eligiu]

For the first couple of days while you stabilise on your dose there is a mild effect from the drug. I wouldn't quite describe it as a high, moreso a bit of a light buzz and sort of a weird feeling.

That feeling definitely goes away after around 4-5 days in my experience and it doesn't happen every time. I've been on suboxone/sublocade 5 times and the last time I came onto it I didn't get any high feeling, I just wasn't in withdrawal at all.

I think (like another poster said) that methadone is more likely to give people a buzz than Buprenorphine.

If you are not opiate tolerant however then you definitely can get a buzz off it, though I'm unsure as to whether it would be an enjoyable one as I've never done it. I know where I live in prisons Buprenorphine is the most abused drug, and that people often buy it off the street to get high, but yeah that's not something I've done. Every time I've been put on suboxone I've been well and truly opiate dependent so it's been mild if anything at all.

 

[tarman]

I had zero tolerance and my pin cushion buddy gave me sub strip. I forget what brand it was because it was like paper or cardboard-ey. I stupidly trusted him and didn't research it and took the whole thing, and he and his friends started laughing at me. I then went through the most unpleasant 12 hours that isn't withdrawal in my life. I threw up everything that I tried to drink. I started to get worried that I was going to die of dehydration because of how efficiently my body was expelling fluids.

Fast forward several years and I do have a tolerance. And like others said it basically just helps you to feel decent or slightly good. But it's much more of a subtle thing. What is awful about it is if you are on it for more than a week or two and you try to quit, at least for me my anxiety went through the roof. And I'm not really an anxietal person.

Stay away from it, and if you have to use it, alternate with kratom week on and week off.

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[Pickledlemons]

Define 'high'. I mean bupe still makes me feel pretty good even after using it for 5+ years. But its not like anybody would notice me acting any different. I guess its just like comfortable, and maybe a bit more motivated. Helps me get through the day.

 

[Robi]

i was given some strips a good while back, 4 mg iirc, i thought they were good, no issues, then i did some more and didnt feel much, so never trying them again, def crossed them off my bucket list

 

[LucidSDreamr]

Absolutely. If my tolerance is low or I'm clean off opioids suboxone gives me a fantastic high.

Its more recreational than methadone. But since it's still (barley) on patent the pharma companies have made sure it is not CII like methadone so that it can be prescribed easier.

 

[Julies1221]

Do popular opioid replacement drugs such as bupe, suboxone and methadone get you high or do they only reduce the symptoms of withdrawal?

Like I've heard that they have helped lots of people with withdrawing from opioids but do they have a high/euphoria associated with them? Are they like how Narcen or imodium are opioids but they dont cause euphoria, or are they a less euphoric opioid that works as a stepping stone to get off of opium?

I was prescribed bupe for chronic pain. It didn’t help with pain, didn’t get me high, and caused a two year IC flare.
IT SUCKED.

 

[Fire&Water]

I was prescribed bupe for chronic pain. It didn’t help with pain, didn’t get me high, and caused a two year IC flare.
IT SUCKED.

Its almost like they went from making temgesic / buprenex
to 8 mg bupre, just to fuck patients over the coals

 

[pimpwagon70]

For me personally after taking 16mg of bupe while kicking not being in withdrawal or having the withdrawal symptoms vastly more manageable felt good enough to the point where i felt high

 

[GetMeOutOfThisCRAP]

Subutex got me higher than oxy did for hours and hours. I was drooling lol. It was like 40 milligrams of oxycodone on steroids with very low tolerance.

If someone is opiate naive and takes even 2 milligrams of suboxone, they won't be able to function from the high being overbearingly strong. However, after being perpetually high on opioids more or less for 2-3 years.. 2 milligrams of suboxone would be barely a buzz. As others said... you may be quite high the first days or so into completely sober each dose then on after.

I don't recommend people who haven't gotten high before on opioids seek out subutex or suboxone (as it leads to the same opiate dead end trap cycle like they all do) btw lol.

 

[TheUltimateFixx]

Do popular opioid replacement drugs such as bupe, suboxone and methadone get you high or do they only reduce the symptoms of withdrawal?

Like I've heard that they have helped lots of people with withdrawing from opioids but do they have a high/euphoria associated with them? Are they like how Narcen or imodium are opioids but they dont cause euphoria, or are they a less euphoric opioid that works as a stepping stone to get off of opium?

Narcan is a full opiate ANTAGONIST, and while the active ingredient in Imodium can indeed get you high in large doses, it's not an opiate.

 

[JTemperance]

This is not recommended at all from an HR perspective, but it seems like buprenorphine by injection (in lower doses) is kind of a different drug — more like a traditional full-agonist opiate, though one lacking a rush (even by IV, it still takes a few minutes to come on).

In northern India, buprenorphine is the #1 IV drug and most popular opiate after "brown sugar." It comes in 1-2ml ampoules of 0.3mg/ml solution, so a typical shot is 0.3-1.2mg, done 2-3x daily, adding a couple ml's of Avil (pheniramine maleate, 22.75mg/ml) since it has a kind of "rush" when IV'd (but is very destructive to veins/tissue & heavily discouraged).

 

[LucidSDreamr]

I was prescribed bupe for chronic pain. It didn’t help with pain, didn’t get me high, and caused a two year IC flare.
IT SUCKED.

He also have IC.

I've definitely been flared by opioids. Hydrocodone and diluaded I have specific incidents.

On the flip side I have taken tons of other opioids and these two (and bupe)...while not in an IC flare (or while in one)...
And it didn't cause problems.

The disease is so strange how sometimes something will wreck you and other times the same thing won't.

One thing I've found works even better than opioids for my IC when pelvic floor and bladder neck muscles are all locked up is oral valium. It will even knock the flare out. Bit these are flares which are more based in muscle and pelvic floor issues....I think the inside of my bladder has recovered quite a bit since the early days but I am still very sensitive to muscle issues down there hurting my non elastic and low capacity bladder.


Also on a different topic I would like to know about your access to narcotics and pain management in general having IC.

I live in a huge multi city area of the US and was rejected by so many pain specialists as "we don't treat interstitial cystitis."

Urologist won't prescribe shit of course because why would a super highly Paid specialist like that risk prison. My only saving graces have been primary care physicians that script narcotics. Have you ever been rejected by pain specialists as in "we don't trest IC."
...I mean it makes sense for them business wise. They can't do any high billing interventional procedures like spine injections they do for most of their patients...all they really can do is treat IC with medication...so why risk prison for a patient they can't bill the big money making procedures on like spine injections?

 

[tubgirl.jpg]

Yes, if you're opiate/opioid naïve and you insufflate it, it will most certainly get you high, and for a long time. It seems less is more with buprenorphine: I used to do 0.5-1mg and that would keep me high for an entire day.

And it wasn't just one day or one week or month, it was well over a year that I snorted bupe and got super high.

However, after being hooked on morphine and oxy and heroin, bupe didn't do much other than reduce withdrawal symptoms for me.

 

[Nas47]

Yes, if you're opiate/opioid naïve and you insufflate it, it will most certainly get you high, and for a long time. It seems less is more with buprenorphine: I used to do 0.5-1mg and that would keep me high for an entire day.

And it wasn't just one day or one week or month, it was well over a year that I snorted bupe and got super high.

However, after being hooked on morphine and oxy and heroin, bupe didn't do much other than reduce withdrawal symptoms for me.

It should be like this personally never snorted or inject,but nasal route as twice as bioavailable.sublingual also works pretty fast 30-40min.