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Opioids 3 months to quit methadone

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bnghit3

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So I have been on methadone about 4 years, after getting a pretty mean OC addiction and not being able to afford them anymore. I get the methadone off the street, not through any sort of MMT, its odd that methadone is one of the easiest opiates to find where i live. Anyway I will be going away to new college this fall and i would really like to be off the methadone completely. I was thinking of trying to get into a MMT program in the city I am moving to, but I am going to be a broke uninsured grad student and it would be so much easier just to be off them. I am only moving about a hour away so its not like methadone won't still be available, its just time i think to get off them. Right now I am at about 40mg a day 50-60 if i want to get high and this is actually the highest my doses have ever been, for the longest time it was 30mg a day. I have got down to as low as 10mg a day before and that wasn't so terrible, so i know it will not be to hard to wean myself down to 10-20mg a day, its just after that it starts getting really hard. I have about exactly 3 months should I try to get down to maybe 30mg a day the first month, then the second month work on getting down to 10mg a day. Then the third month maybe just go cold turkey so that i am somewhat normal by the time classes start. I say cold turkey off the opiates, I do plan on getting some benzos especially for the last month and maybe the first few weeks of classes. Does this seem possible? Or should i just say fuck it and try my hardest to get into a MMT program.
 
Methadone is fucking hard to get off. If I were you I'd swap over to bupe, get down to less than 1mg dropping by 1/4 of your dose every week. The WD'S won't be anything near as bad as methadone WD. Benzos will help but make sure you don't get a habit to them! Their WD'S are worse than both opies.

Your on a pretty low dose so you can do it. The last jump is by far the hardest, once your past the first week clean it will only get better from there on.
 
Yeah i have bupe available as well, so maybe the end of the 2nd month beginning of the 3rd i could switch to like 1-2mg of bupe a day and then jump from there. I do know that benzo WD is even worse. I completely quit opiates about 3 years ago for about 3 months, but i was taking around 3 bars a day. When i tried to get off the xanax it was hell, way worse that opiate WD, and i just went back to methadone and swore i would never get addicted to benzos again. The fucked up thing is that benzos are so accepted by society for some reason. Pretty much anyone can get a script to xanax if they know what to say. Try to even get vicoden and your a junkie, but xanax and valium are fine.
 
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