Thank you very much for all you replies!
Let´s see, I don´t know for sure how much I´m taking because neither does my friend(not really a friend but a dealer...)know how much he´s selling to me. Apparently, he´s never taken his methadone since he started on the program at the clinic. He´s only there to avoid going to prison. I´ve no idea how he´s managed to pass the drug tests all this time, or maybe he hasn´t passed them... I´m from Spain and things over here are completely different from The States,for example. The main and most important difference being that you get methadone for free. Also, I believe that although you test positive they keep on giving you the methadone, however you may lose some of the privileges you earn.
Thing is that he´s been filling a 2 litre bottle of coke with his methadone, but he told me he asked his doctor to start tapering off so, in the bottle,there is methadone with different concentrations. Does this make any sense to you? Maybe I´m completely wrong... He´s told me as well that one day at the clinic he heard one of the nurses say that he´s currently taking about 40mg. He says it takes about three of those bottles to fill the bottle he sells to me each time, so there should be about 120mg in it,shouldn´t be? This one bottle keeps me going for about 4 days, more or less... So I assume I take, give or take, 30 mg a day. Is that right?
@mr tambourine man: you say I have to buy a 10ml syringe,right? Does that mean that 10ml are equivalent to 10mg?
Previously, I had been on a methadone program from 2000 to 2009 and didn´t relapse at all in those 9 years, not even once
. I was on a 120mg maintenance dose and in 2006 I started tapering off. I never had any problems, well, I came to a point where I began to sleep less but that was it.I suppose everything went so smoothly because I did it so slowly. I kept tapering off at the clinic till I got down to 5mg. At that point, I told them I was going away on holidays for 20 days. I did so in order to get pills instead of liquid methadone. That´s what they do at my clinic: when you had to travel to another country, they would switch you to pills. I did really want to finish at once after almost three years tapering off. Besides I was really fed up with the people from the clinic.Most of them are just idiots who judge and look down on you. I even came to the conclusion that they want patients to be on really high doses so that we are "easier to handle", so that we say "yes" to every stupid rule, so that they can threaten us: "either you do as we say or you´ll get no more methadone" Do you know what I mean? Obviously, when you are on such a low dose,as was my case back then, they realize they´re losing that control over you and they don´t like it. So, once I got all the pills, I didn´t get back anymore to the clinic. I would cut each 5mg pill in half,so I was taking 2.5mg everyday till I ran out of pills...and finally it was over! I wasn´t taking methadone anymore. Apart from a strange sensation in my legs at times (really slight RLS),I didn´t have any withdrawal symptoms at all. I had appetite, I could sleep, I wasn´t depressed either and I didn´t take any benzos or anything. I think it was all thanks to my motivation, I was so determined to quit methadone and the people from the clinic that everything turned out to be so easy in the end. How I got back to using opiates after more than 2 years is another story...,Anyways, now I´m also really determined to quit methadone once again!!