I know I'm bringing this post back from the dead, but I just had to share my experience.
I started taking heroin at about 18-19 years old. I quickly became addicted. So I went to a methdone clinic and they shot me up to 160mgs within a week. I was also on 6mgs of Alprazolam a day. Anyway, I thought I would check myself into a detox clinic.
BAD IDEA!!!!!
I had taken 160mhs of methadone that day as well. And guess what the first thing they did was?? They gave me 16mgs of Buprenorphine!!! I went into the WORST pain/withdrawls of my life, I was an adult in his 20's bawling like a baby climbing up the walls from the precipitated withdrawals.
About an hour after that I checked out AMA.
The withdrawals went on for what seemed like forever.
HANDS DOWN THE WORST PAIN I'VE EVER FELT!
So I kinda get what you're talking about Solidether.. Sometimes doctors are the dumbest motherfuckers in the world.