Is Kratom an effective/worthwhile drug to long time &/or heavy opiate users?
I need this question answered having been using opiates/opioids on and off for 4 years out of which 2 were more strongly marked by usage, and another 1+ year of being on 205mg of methadone a day, which i am still on though on a tapering schedule, currently at 165mg. For a year i ovisously haven't been able to experience any other opiate other than methadone, not that i really wanted to however. But when i first started tratment and i was on 100mg or so, i still wanted to get high so i tried oxycontin at 160mg in two doses spaced between a half hour, around 10+hours after my initial methadone dose and felt absolutley nothing, perhaps a lessenig of watever w/ds were present at that time if any, and a bit more of an increase or of a warm buzz like feeling resembling the tail end of a methadone buzz, nothing close to a buzz. Another time when i was on around 180mg or so, i smoked to myself an entire 5mg patch of fentanyl while also giving a buddy a couple hits as well all in 5min and the entire patch was gone. Again i felt the exact same thing as last time with the oxy, NOTHING. Just another tail end methadone high IF EVEN THAT. It definatley caused a physical reaction b/c i know that when people are in w/d from methadone, they take opiates and they get well until their next methadone dose. So physically it probably lessened the w/ds i had if any, and the methadone's blocking effects stoped fentanyls high psychologically. Again it's not a surprise considering the high methadone dose i was and am on.
Is a person who is on methadone maintanance treatment able to consume Kratom with benneficial effects, or is it a long shot? What i mean is if i take it on top of my methadone high, or time it to kick in when methadone does, b/c it's not an opiate chemically i'm thinking it might not operate as the true opiates do on a person undergoing methadone treatment. If it does work, would the effects potentate the methadone high in a good way, or might it just ruin the methadone buzz, by making one nauseaus or too fucked up or watever? I'm interested in knowing if Kratom is an effective drug for long time or heavy opiate users, or wether it's mostly a lighter drug for people with less of an opiate tolerance?