The best advice I can give someone looking to wean down to a "Very Manageable Level" with NO Roller Coaster Effect, feeling better every hour of every day than when abusing the Highest Ammt of Oxycodone / Morphine / Phentnyl / Oxymorphone / Hydrocodone - Pretty Much Any and All of the Fast Acting OR Time Release Schedule II Narcotics... Is to find some Methadone. Whether u get your doctor to switch you, or you find a friend who you can percure some from on a monthly basis, or even going to mexico (I have recently gotten both 10mg Methadone and 40mg Methadone from Mexico and expecially the 40mg are strong as hell even when broken into quarters)...
The thing about Every Single OTHER Medication other than Methadone. Is that there is a High Incentive for Abuse. If 1 Feels Good, then 2 are going to feel better and after a while 4 will feel better than 2 and so on and so on.... The problem with this is that you build up such a tolerance to it that when you do not have any or require to "Wean Down" you will go into withdrawl. Not to mention Even if you Never Run Out - You are dealing (if Abusing Them) with Constipation and bowel issues that can criple you. You get the Roller Coaster Effect where u will feel Great for a While and then Horrible till you take more...
BUT, with Methadone - There is almost ZERO Incentive for Abuse. Doctors Know this and the only two reasons they do not prescribe Methadone as much as they should. Is #1 because of the Stigma it has received as being used for Methadone Maintenance for Heroine Users over Decades... and #2 because the pharmacuetical Companies are pushing them to prescribe the More Expensive Drugs. My Insurance Company pays my pharmacy $1600 for one prescription of 90ea 80mg Oxycontin (Extended Release) Tablets, And over $360 for 180ea 30mg Oxycodone (Immediate Release Tablets) EVERY MONTH... It is the same with Phentenyl Patches, Morphine Immediate Release and Extended Release, Hydromorphone and many other drugs that are Extremely Expensive and that the pharmaceutical companies make Billions of Dollars on. Yet One Prescriiption for 360ea 10mg Methadone (Extended Release) Tablets even without insurance only cost about $45.....
When I say that Methadone has almost ZERO Incentive for Abuse I assure u that you absolutely can not understand the Seriousness behind this statement. Honestly, You can only understand by experiencing it. One of the reasons that this is achieved is the WAY That Methadone is TIME Released in the body... Most other Medications are time released (Like Oxycontin and Morphine ER) by the Bonding Agents in the Tablet and set rate that it disolves at in the digestive tract.... Whereas Methadone is absorbed into the Fat Cells of the body and is released with help of your Metabolisim... Making it much harder to abuse (like u can crush up or chew up an Oxycontin or Morphine) plus this time release mechanisim runs so smoothly in Methadone that there is NO Roller Coaster Effect that can occur even Naturally in the Other meds simply due to differences of taking on an empty stomach or after eating so that they could be disolved faster or slower. All of this results in almost NO Incentive to Abuse the Methadone and makes it Completely Normal & Easy to take Barely Enuf to keep yourself out of pain and Functioning on a daily basis.
Let me throw you an example. When I get my prescriptions. I sell my 90ea 80mg Oxycontin outright to one person every month. And do not take even 1 tablet. Not for 15 years now... BUT, I have my 180qty of my 30mg Oxycodone Immediate Release Tablets to get me thru the month. This would be 6 a day if I Stayed on Track and did not abuse them (which would be plenty for me) But instead, because of the Immediate bioavailability and the fact that if 1 is good then 2 must be better. Coupled with the fact that I have for years now Crushed Them Up and Snorted Them. (Which at this point I am more addicted to the Physical Act of Crushing them Up and Snorting Them than I am the actual Medication) It caused me to go thru my entire prescription of 180 tablets in about TWO WEEKS. Sometimes Less.... Obviously, I can not go another 2 weeks with NOTHING before receiving my Refills. So I have a friend that I get around 20 methadone a month from. Now At FIRST, coming off of doing nearly 360mg of Immediate Release Oxycodone a day 1 Methadone a day will just not cut it. I end up taking 1 as soon as I start going into withdrawl, That lasts about 8 to 10 hours then I take another, and That lasts about 10 to 12 hours. After 3 days (of feeling pretty crappy and spending most of it in bed no doubt) I have weaned myself down to 1/2 a Methadone every 12 hours. (That is only 1 Methadone a Day) From 360mg of Oxy to only 10mg of Methadone a day in as little as 3 days. And for the next 3 days I Progressively Feel Better and Better on only the Half of 1 methadone every 12 hours. By the time I have about 8 days left before receiving my Refill on MY Medication I am wishing that I never gotten Oxycodone EVER. I am Feeling Better than I ever do on the High Doses of Oxycodone. My Testosterone Level starts to come back (Because when abusing the Opiates at a High Level it will litterally Completely STOP you body from producing Testosterone). MY Sleep paterns Normalize (I Go to bed earlier and wake up in the morning Feeling Refreshed and Feeling GREAT)... IF I Wanted to I could take this further and eventually cut it down to 1/3 of a Methadone every 12 hours and even further to 1/4 of a Methadone every 12 hours. This would give someone a very VERY reasonable and Easy way to eventually Wean Yourself Completely Off All Pain Meds.... Because as I mentioned Earlier. There is Absolutely NO Incentive to Abuse the Methadone. You will not Feel Better By Taking MORE You will only Feel More SEDATED. NOT BETTER Physically or Emotionally or even Euphorically.... There is just no reason or want to Abuse the Methadone and therefore is the PERFECT Vehicle to Wean Yourself Down as far as you want to go... If you want to get completely OFF the Opiates Then it will be easy. If you have legitimate Pain that you can not live with Then it will allow you to find that Perfect Dose that Relieves your Pain but still allows you the Energy to Get out of bed and be a productive citizen. Without the Roller Coaster Effect. Without the Up's & Down's of the other Opiates.... I Think it is a Travesty that more doctors do not embrace this fact... I go thru it every month... Every Month I prove how easy it is to wean myself down to very little methadone But then Because of my Addiction to the Physical Act of Grinding up / Crushing and Snorting the Oxycodone I end up back on it and abusing it for another 2 weeks. If a big portion of my income was not from selling my prescription of 80mg Oxycontin Then I would hav a talk to my doctor and get transferred str8 over to Methadone and eventually just Wean Myself Off Completely. But I Am Caught in a Cycle.... Nonetheless, My Monthly Cycle Proves how easy it is to do this. I have a Very Addictive Personality, and if abusing the methadone was a benefit I would end up abusing It As Well. But I Am Proof that Even the Most Addictive Personalities can Achieve a level of Normality on the Methadone for the simple fact that """""""THERE IS NO INCENTIVE TO ABUSE THE METHADONE""""""" NONE..... It is so easy to take as prescribed and even wean yourself down. Because """""THERE IS NO BENEFIT IN OVER DOING IT""""""
I Hope you take this to heart, and I hope that others read this and get help from it. I have been on pain meds for over 15 years but they have also been my main source of income for the last 15 years So I am Stuck getting these CERTAIN Meds and These ones happen to be Ones that I Love To Abuse.... For ppl out there who do not care about switching meds from One to Another. Talk to your doctor about Methadone I guarantee it will save your life....
Good Luck, thanks for your time and I wish you all the best.
God Bless.....
Skippy
))) I think today we will go fishing off the skyway pier or possibly check out the archery store, want to take some archery lessons. It's like the story of the prodigal son, I'm just so happy to have him back. 
