Miss Kirsty, that's how you're supposed to take suboxone. It's designed for sublingual administration. There is a thread about mixing bupe with alcohol to increase its effects:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...c-Solutions-for-Higher-BA-With-Sublingual-Use - also, snorting bupe has a higher bioavailability than putting it under your tongue, although it doesn't last quite as long.
I have taken bupe 12 hours after my last dose of gear without experiencing precipitated withdrawals. I can tell when it's safe to take bupe due to the way I'm feeling. When going from a full agonist to bupe, I usually have my last dose about 6pm, go to sleep then see how I'm feeling in the morning. If the withdrawals aren't too bad, I'll wait a bit longer, but by the time I wake up my nose is usually like a tap and the yawns and teary eyes are usually bad enough for me to have some bupe.
The naloxone was put in suboxone to prevent IV abuse, however it is essentially useless as buprenorphine has a higher binding affinity than naloxone. Any receptors that naloxone manages to bind to would be almost instantly replaced by bupe. Because bupe is a partial agonist/partial antagonist, bupe itself will still put you in precipitated withdrawals if you are addicted to any other opiate, or have any in your system.
so if i could get my hands on naloxone then after having a bender I could say eat it, the naloxone binds to my receptors thus preventing the opioids from doing their job.
Thus my brain would be in full WD. Great. That means if I eat the Naloxone, and then before it can affect me, fall asleep I can become sick straight away, sleep the sickness off and wake up fresh....I imagine though that I'd need to keep up the naloxone dose up until the opioids have been metabalised right?
Haha, if you think it would be possible to sleep through precipitated withdrawals, you don't understand just how intense it is. I tried an at-home detox with naltrexone about 24 hours after my last dose of a full agonist (morphine), I wrote about it somewhere on bluelight I think, and it was honestly the most horrendous experience of my life. I took an enormous amount of benzos, waited for them to work, swallowed half a tab of naltrexone and went to bed. Within half an hour I was uncontrollably spewing, shitting, shivering, shaking, screaming and basically in hell for at least 8 hours wit no respite. The stomach cramps came in excruciatingly bad waves of agony about 4 seconds apart and lasted for 6-8 hours, gradually getting further apart. If I'd experienced having a baby, I would probably rather that than precipitated withdrawals. I've witnessed my partner going through labour and it didn't look fun, but it didn't last as long as this. I honestly wanted to kill myself but I didn't have the energy or ability to move. There's simply no way sleep would have been possible.
Naltrexone does speed up the withdrawal process, but it's not a magical pill which will make all symptoms of withdrawal over in one day that you can sleep through. About 4 or 5 days after my precipitated withdrawal, I was free from almost all of the withdrawal symptoms except for the intense cravings, which I eventually succumbed to.
I know several people who have undergone medically supervised naltrexone treatment (in Australia) in order to get over their opiate addiction. They were not placed in a coma, although that sounds like a much better way to go about it. There are rapid detox centers in U.S. and possibly here as well, that anesthetize you before giving you naltrexone, but this is a very expensive procedure. The friends I know who've done it in a hospital setting were gradually given small amounts of naltrexone diluted in water and were monitored to see how much they could withstand. They were given other drugs for some of the worst symptoms and were out of hospital in a couple of days.
Because naltrexone has a long half-life and a high binding affinity, it blocks your opiate receptors without making you high (because it's a full antagonist), you can eat naltrexone tablets daily in order to abstain from full agonists. There is also a long-lasting injection that you can take which slowly releases the naltrexone over a period of one month to prevent you from using.