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good recrational methadone dose?

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So I've been a recreational opiate user for about 2 years now. I mainly only use oxycodone and my average dose is about 20-25 mgs. I recently acquired 35mgs of methadone from a friend and was wondering what a good dose would be to start with, or if its even worth taking for recreational use, since i've heard some bad things about it. Thanks in advance for your help!
 
No one on this website can safely assume what dose you should take, because none of us know what your tolerance is no matter what you say about your drug use. There is no way for us to know, so telling you how much to take can be dangerous and would be counterproductive to harm reduction. Figure out your own tolerance and limits, start small until you have a good idea of how much of whatever substance you will need. If using heroin than start small with every batch period.
 
caseface99 said:
No one on this website can safely assume what dose you should take, because none of us know what your tolerance is no matter what you say about your drug use. There is no way for us to know, so telling you how much to take can be dangerous and would be counterproductive to harm reduction. Figure out your own tolerance and limits, start small until you have a good idea of how much of whatever substance you will need. If using heroin than start small with every batch period.
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I guess my tolerance would be around 20mgs for oxycodone. I was just wondering what a safe starting dose would be, for instance even if I had no tolerance whatsoever would I be safe taking 20mgs of methadone?
 
If you join a methadone clinic in orlando through colonial management they start every user at 35mg of methadone without even drug testing you first. Hope that gives you an idea. be safe
 
start at 10-15mgs and work your way up, this won't effect the end result/how high you get as long as you aren't shooting it. If you do 15, then do another 10, you will get just as high as if you did 25 strait off, so why dive right in?
 
Do you think its even worth doing for recreational purposes? I tried morphine sulfate (30mgs oral) a while back and didnt really care for it because the respiratory depression made me kinda paranoid. I don't really want to just be paranoid and nervous for 24hours
 
caseface99 said:
No one on this website can safely assume what dose you should take, because none of us know what your tolerance is no matter what you say about your drug use. There is no way for us to know, so telling you how much to take can be dangerous and would be counterproductive to harm reduction. Figure out your own tolerance and limits, start small until you have a good idea of how much of whatever substance you will need. If using heroin than start small with every batch period.
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he absolutely did state his tolerance

I mainly only use oxycodone and my average dose is about 20-25 mgs.
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MK3Y2K said:
If you join a methadone clinic in orlando through colonial management they start every user at 35mg of methadone without even drug testing you first. Hope that gives you an idea. be safe
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Yes, but people going to these programs tend to go in having much heavier habits than 25mg oxy/day.


Anyways, to OP - I would say start with 10mg, but it takes a good 2-3 hours to kick in so if 3 hours pass and you don't feel it take 5-10mg more, but definitely have patience with this drug's come up time and don't go above 15-20mg because your tolerance is rather low. This drug is very easy to overdose on because when people don't feel it after an hour they get pissed and go crazy by popping more, so please tread carefully.

When I was doing 40-60mg oxy/day and then got some 'done, 10mg had me nodding and itchy for a good 12 hours once it finally kicked in.
 
shoolameet said:
he absolutely did state his tolerance
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Okay, so then why are you telling him to start slow and work his way up like i did? Clearly you now understand his exact tolerance and how it will correspond to any opiate or opioid, so clearly you should know exactly how much methadone he should take, however, clearly, you don't. Case and point. Not being an ass, just being smart and safe.
 
caseface99 said:
Okay, so then why are you telling him to start slow and work his way up like i did? Clearly you now understand his exact tolerance and how it will correspond to any opiate or opioid, so clearly you should know exactly how much methadone he should take, however, clearly, you don't. Case and point. Not being an ass, just being smart and safe.
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I'm not asking for the EXACT amount, I'm asking what a good general starting point would be.
 
if its strictly for recreational use. it doesnt make too much since. unless you want to feel withdraw symptoms next day or so. It sounds like 25mg of oxy is way to little to want to do methadone for fun. Its long lasting synthetic opiate. Its not really for having fun.
 
I know, i was only stating that there is no way for anyone to safely tell you what dose of drugs to take because this sort of question is posted relatively frequently. I then told you have much would be safe to start at, a dose that is safe to assume will be substantially less than the dose required. All i am saying is that trying to state the dose that would be required is impossible and anyone who doesn't agree with that shouldn't be giving people advice. Not on a website based on Harm Reduction anyway. I find that a large number of posters on this website ignore the part where it says this website was created and intended to be used for drug related Harm Reduction.

I am not implying your OP isn't a question that involves harm reduction, i m just stating a fact.


And most likely rambling.

So /end.
 
shoolameet said:
he absolutely did state his tolerance





Yes, but people going to these programs tend to go in having much heavier habits than 25mg oxy/day.


Anyways, to OP - I would say start with 10mg, but it takes a good 2-3 hours to kick in so if 3 hours pass and you don't feel it take 5-10mg more, but definitely have patience with this drug's come up time and don't go above 15-20mg because your tolerance is rather low. This drug is very easy to overdose on because when people don't feel it after an hour they get pissed and go crazy by popping more, so please tread carefully.

When I was doing 40-60mg oxy/day and then got some 'done, 10mg had me nodding and itchy for a good 12 hours once it finally kicked in.
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This. :)
 
Uh.....I dunno. I don't think like someone said that will get you a buzz. That's a little stupid/annoying. Keep doing oxy if you want recreational fun
 
I'd recommend taking 15mg of Methadone. 20mg might be a better dosage for you, but Methadone's one of those opiates you have to be really careful with, & even though you have an opiate tolerance I wouldn't recommend that anybody who doesn't really use Methadone much start by taking 20mg. Keep in mind that Methadone takes a long time to fully take effect -- like 2 hours or something I think, maybe even 3 hours. So if you decide to take more than 15mg in a day, I'd say start with 15mg than if you need to take another 5mg after like four hours.
 
Start with ten mg, do more if you need to. You always can take one more pill, one less is trickier. Keep in mind it will take several hours to peak, so don't take a handful because you don't feel much after an hour.
 
Yes, but people going to these programs tend to go in having much heavier habits than 25mg oxy/day.
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You are right about that, their habits probably a way worse. :)

Its one of those drugs in my opinion i wish i would have never tried. Probably because of the length of time it lasts and the how I went through withdraws after barely anything the next day. I do know plenty of people who do like it and use for fun. Its risky though, at least it was for me.
 
fryingsquirrel said:
Start with ten mg, do more if you need to. You always can take one more pill, one less is trickier. Keep in mind it will take several hours to peak, so don't take a handful because you don't feel much after an hour.
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Took the words right out of my mouth.

It's been said before, and I'll say it again. You can always redose later on, but once you dose, you can not un-dose.

Start slow.
 
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