Been trying to go from 9 years of IV fent to taking Suboxone, and found a crazy article about a man successfully Narcan-ing himself at home followed by taking three strips of Suboxone. He'd been sniffing fentanyl daily for two years. He was better and ready for a nap within an hour!!!
Here's a summary of it:
"We describe the case of a patient who was able to transition to a therapeutic dose of BUP-NX less than 3 hours after his last illicitly manufactured fentanyl use by choosing to self-administer intranasal naloxone. After the naloxone, the transition took 31 minutes, including 14 minutes of expected moderately severe withdrawal. He remains in care with BUP-NX and would recommend this transition approach to others."
The whole article is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022654/
Anyone here tried this?? I'm interested, but scared.
Edit: What I don't understand is how it works chemically, beneficially, to Narcan yourself and *then* take Suboxone. If you just suddenly took 3 Sub strips, the opiate receptors will be replaced with buprenorphine, anyway. What's the difference chemically?
Here's a summary of it:
"We describe the case of a patient who was able to transition to a therapeutic dose of BUP-NX less than 3 hours after his last illicitly manufactured fentanyl use by choosing to self-administer intranasal naloxone. After the naloxone, the transition took 31 minutes, including 14 minutes of expected moderately severe withdrawal. He remains in care with BUP-NX and would recommend this transition approach to others."
The whole article is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022654/
Anyone here tried this?? I'm interested, but scared.
Edit: What I don't understand is how it works chemically, beneficially, to Narcan yourself and *then* take Suboxone. If you just suddenly took 3 Sub strips, the opiate receptors will be replaced with buprenorphine, anyway. What's the difference chemically?
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