Hello all
I have been using BL for years and received a lot of information. This will be my first post though.
Please dont respond to this by saying have him pick a different treatment or methadone is bad or anything like that as the final decision has been made to start methadone.
Now to get to the point. A close friend has been struggling with a fentanyl/heroin addiction for the last 2 years. After some legal trouble, issues with his job and family and finances and espucally his own views on who he bacame he has decided to get treatment.
The treatment him and his dr decoded on is methadone due to the fact that he cannot afford Suboxone/Subutex and where he lived overdoses have became an epidemic in his city and the city is becoming an example as to why not to get on that shit for the whole country. So this city is now giving methadone for free to helpnwith these problems. He has been going to NA meetings and counseling and all that and finally in 2 days he will start methadone.
He is very nervous to start due to the fact that he believes he will still have to go through the withdraw and from what hes read methadone wd is basically the same!e as that on fentanyl except while fent wd last about a week he's heard methadone lasts about 3 weeks. If he could get through 1 week he wouldn't need the help of methadone but he can't.
Please share your or SWIY experience on detoxing off heroin of fentanyl with medical assisted methadone treatment.
How did it help?
How was the first few days (especially the first night)?
How was coming off methadone?
Did it hekp or not?
Thank you all
I have been using BL for years and received a lot of information. This will be my first post though.
Please dont respond to this by saying have him pick a different treatment or methadone is bad or anything like that as the final decision has been made to start methadone.
Now to get to the point. A close friend has been struggling with a fentanyl/heroin addiction for the last 2 years. After some legal trouble, issues with his job and family and finances and espucally his own views on who he bacame he has decided to get treatment.
The treatment him and his dr decoded on is methadone due to the fact that he cannot afford Suboxone/Subutex and where he lived overdoses have became an epidemic in his city and the city is becoming an example as to why not to get on that shit for the whole country. So this city is now giving methadone for free to helpnwith these problems. He has been going to NA meetings and counseling and all that and finally in 2 days he will start methadone.
He is very nervous to start due to the fact that he believes he will still have to go through the withdraw and from what hes read methadone wd is basically the same!e as that on fentanyl except while fent wd last about a week he's heard methadone lasts about 3 weeks. If he could get through 1 week he wouldn't need the help of methadone but he can't.
Please share your or SWIY experience on detoxing off heroin of fentanyl with medical assisted methadone treatment.
How did it help?
How was the first few days (especially the first night)?
How was coming off methadone?
Did it hekp or not?
Thank you all