Opioids Marijuana for opioid withdrawl?

[The Nigga Bert]

Hey guys, just to start off I'm new here so I'm sorry if I'm not posting this in the right section of the site.

Well anyways to start off I've been on opioids for about three years on and off, but I don't want to keep doing them anymore. I just graduated college and now I have to find a good job in my career path but I first want to get over my addiction from tabs, roxys, and percs. I really want to live my life normally for myself and my mother because it hurts me so much when she brags about me to her friends about how I graduated and am such a good boy all while she has no idea that I have been doing all of there pills without her knowing. Guys I really feel like a piece of shit for doing what I am but it seems like every time I try to quit I end up relapsing because I have nothing else to help me get off of it. Recently my friend told me that when he has to go through his withdrawals from heroin he would smoke pot to help him sleep and eat, he also said that it helped with some of the muscle aches and pains which made him depressed and angry. Please guys I am pretty high right now and I want this to be the last time that I ever do this to my mother and myself. So what I wanted to know is if it would be a good thing to try and see if weed (and what type of strain) could help me or if it isn't even worth trying. Also if you guys have any tips to help me out or what other things that I can try to help me out on this journey I would greatly appreciate it. I just don't want to feel like a POS son, my mother is a great woman and has sacrificed so much for me and I don't want to let her down by never getting over this god forsaken addiction of mine.

I really want to beat this guys. Please don't think I'm a bad person because I swear that I'm not, I just got myself into this problem and now I have realized how bad it is.

Thanks for all of your help everyone. You have no idea how much I appreciate any kind of advice that you guys can give me.

 

[《Plasticity》]

Hey bert, first off don't beat yourself up. You don't sound like a bad person, just someone who got themself in a bind. Let me preface by saying I'm not addicted to opioids but a plant called kratom which if you haven't heard of it, works on the same receptors as opioids and causes basically the same withdrawals but to a lesser extent. Anyways, for me weed doesn't do shit for my withdrawals after they've fully set in and actually makes things worse, I would imagine things would be even more bad if I was going through real opioid W/D. It makes my anxiety, chills, and depression shoot through the roof. It does have some merit though, it can definately increase your appetite and if you get bad nausea It should be able to help a bit. Basically what I'm saying is that you can give it a shot but don't expect any miracles.

 

[Flaga121]

Weed worked great for me with every withdrawal I've ever been through. I never woulda gotten off subs without nugs.

 

[burn out]

Weed is a wonderful drug and a great tool for reflecting on oneself, seeing the folly of addiction to hard drugs and helping one commit to changing.

However, for me at least, it is not a good withdrawal tool because it only helps for a couple of hours. When I am actually stoned, I feel better but as soon as I come down, I feel worse and want to take opiates right away to feel better. In fact, in many times I ended up taking more opiates than I otherwise would have, when trying to use weed to withdraw from them because dealing with the weed come down during opiate withdrawal is so unpleasant for me. Now maybe if you chain smoked marijuana such that you never had to deal with the come down from it, that might work but I really don't like smoking marijuana more than once or twice day at the most, so I never tried that.

I am in the same situation as you, an opiate addict with a mother who thinks the world of me, filled with guilt for the ways in which my addiction has hurt her and caused me to fail to live up to her image of me. I really don't think we are bad people, we just made the terrible mistake of becoming dependent on opiates and once that happens our will is so compromised that it leads us to do things we otherwise would never even consider. You need to forgive yourself for what you've done, otherwise you will keep using opiates to mask the pain and end up like the alcoholic from the book the little prince (the alcoholic in that book drinks in order to forget that he is ashamed of the fact that he drinks).

In my opinion, the best way to get off opiates is a quick taper (either with suboxone or your DOC) followed by a few days maybe a week of kratom and that's it. I am really against overly quick or overly slow withdrawals (except in special cases). Cold turkey is just ridiculously painful and traumatic. There is just no reason to expect someone should go through that much pain when a great deal of it can be avoided through a taper. On the other hand, for most people there is really no need to take six plus months to taper off suboxone like some people do. All that does is trade one addiction for another and then you still have to face withdrawal at the end of your suboxone run.

 

[PsychedelicHaze]

Weeds good for everything.

OP glad you want to quit to better your self.

just get an oz and smoke all day long for weeks to months. Every few hours medicate your self. Switch up the bud, this is important!!


Also MAKE EDIBLES!! Some edibles with lower thc level and high cbd makes it feel like a narcotic too! Last hours and could even have you slurring words and feeling warm, giggly.

Make sure you decarb the bud too.




I'm not saying make your life all about bud but it can definitely help you stay off opiates s use it wisely. It's better tp be smoking pot and eating it rather than popping pills with apap or any synthetic shit.

 

[poppyplanet]

Marijuana will temporarily help. More so mentally. Physically, you'll probably still feel shitty depending on the level of withdrawal you're in. I would always smoke weed while in withdrawal as it helped for a couple hours until it started wearing off.

 

[bigshot1990]

get some strong indica edibles

 

[anythingbutsober]

this *might* be better suited for one of the recovery forums (i could be wrong) because you may get more addiction/withdrawal advice over there.

i've never tried weed for opiate withdrawal, but immodium (loperamide), melatonin & exercise (even though you won't feel like it) have always worked wonders for me. pm me if you want to talk more; i've been through it a dozen times.

& don't beat yourself up, please. many of us here have been through the same thing. same demons. you're not a bad person by any means.

good luck

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

Weed helps a lot of people in opiate withdrawal. I mean, just don't get the wrong idea about it. All it does is help take the edge off ya know? But still, when you're really sick, that can be the difference between ripping your hair out and being able to deal with it.

 

[Flaga121]

weed helps a lot of people in opiate withdrawal. I mean, just don't get the wrong idea about it. All it does is help take the edge off ya know? But still, when you're really sick, that can be the difference between ripping your hair out and being able to deal with it.

qft.

 

[ghostandthedarknes]

Helps me a lot.

 

[f33lg00d]

Too much weed makes me so paranoid and uncomfortable while withdrawing. A little of a low thc to cbd ratio strain helps out a lot though.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

^^^

Yeah there is a fine line with me when it comes to weed helping or hurting during withdrawal. A very little bit, takes the edge off, chills me out, etc.. but if I have just one hit or two more, it makes me even more anxious and uncomfortable.

 

[Crashing]

Weed definitely helps by distracting attention, and definitely clears depression pretty quickly for me, but the oversensitive body feelings take time.

 

[《Plasticity》]

^ Strange, I find it does the opposite for depression but it can take your mind off things.

^^^

Yeah there is a fine line with me when it comes to weed helping or hurting during withdrawal. A very little bit, takes the edge off, chills me out, etc.. but if I have just one hit or two more, it makes me even more anxious and uncomfortable.

I can co-sign with this, too much exacerbates my withdrawals. However, reasonable doses of a nice CBD heavy strain like 'harleyquin' can do some good, heady sativas like trainwreck or sour diesel bring my anxiety to a whole other level. Weed produces the most benefits for me in combination with sedatives like benzos, gabapentin, pregabalin, baclofen, and phenibut. These make for the BEST withdrawal remedies by providing some nice muscle relaxation, take the edge off things, and allow you to intake as much cannabis as you want without freaking out.

 

[《Plasticity》]

Sorry, accidental double post.

 

[RTrain]

With weed and opiate withdrawal its really all personal preference. Some people will smoke non stop while in w/d, others won't want to touch it, some might take a puff or 2 (like myself, who like to combine benzos, then a few beers and some weed, give it an hour and its the best way to catch some sleep when you have been up for days).

After the acute withdrawal 3-7 days for short acting opiates, weed can help. But I again am a person who gets anxiety for it, and I can't handle the anxiety attack when I am still recoverinfr from opiate abuse, so benzos help if I want to smoke. Obligatory comment "don't replace opiate addiction iwith benzo one"...or alcohol for that matter.

 

[smokemctoke420]

It definetly helps but sure wont eliminate it completly. try soem gabapentin or lyrica with it if you can, or even benzos. gabapentin has helped in extremly high doses for me. makes me have a body high to where my legs feel more like feathers then they do cinder blocks lol and it helped with RLS

 

[Treefa]

Yeah weed isn't a miracle drug, per say lol, but it certainly has many uses.

Weed is probably the only reason I've ever made it through WD.
It's helped me make it through more times than I can count on every finger and toe...goodness I wonder how many times I've gotten off and then back on??
Maybe if I would have told my self I wanted to quit instead of just "running out" i'd be sober by now.

Also I know it can be addicting in itself, but tramadol is a great wd aide when combined with weed especialy..
But i'm pretty fucking sober anyway so...yeah today's gonna suck i'm outta weed and ops but ima make the best of it...or try to anyway.

Good luck op, if you live where the stuff is legal get like a quarter oz. of about 8 different strains and mix and match em. You'll be baked than a motherfucker, as I take it your not a chronic smoker, no pun intended.

 

[treezy z]

for me if i'm coming off opiates/benzos/other downer weed will just make me panicky.