Can Suboxone take away the physical withdrawals from a 200mg per day Oxy addiction?

[barley31]

Here is my question: I am using roughly 160 to 200mg per day of crushed up oxycotin. My plan for next week was to go cold turkey and deal with the physical withdrawal pain for 6 to 7 days. A buddy recommended I try taking suboxone to get rid of or at least dramatically decrease the physical withdrawals. So is it as easy as taking suboxone for 6-7 days, so in a way skipping the pain of the withdraws while my system gets clean from Oxy? does it fool my brain, while my buddy gets rid of all the oxy? In other words. I'll completely stop taking Oxy and start taking suboxone for 6 days and than I essentially skip the physical withdraw pain? I would just have to deal with the mental and go to NA meeting?

What am I missing here, it sounds too easy.

Please, any advise would help, by the way I have been addicted for 4 years, I quit cold turkey while doing 80mg per day 4 months ago than relapsed and quickly got up to 160 to 200mg.

 

[Shadowsblaze]

Yes its the answer to your prayers.

 

[axl blaze]

yeah

you might be pretty rough the first day or two. I usually make up for that with herb or benzos, your choice really

 

[RVAbrowntownRVA]

In short yes it can...I would recommend taking it before being in full w/d in my exp. It works much more efficiently that way.

 

[pasha]

welcome to bluelight. i'm going to move your thread to the appropriate forum.

drug studies -> basic drug discussion

 

[brutus]

You won't feel any WD while taking Suboxone, but you will feel normal withdrawals once you stop taking Suboxone.

 

[Toz]

In short yes it can...I would recommend taking it before being in full w/d in my exp. It works much more efficiently that way.

I would definitely not recommend that.

 

[Rob27shred]

Absolutely not! Why is there so much disinformation in this thread?! The only thing suboxone will do is hold your withdrawls off like any other opiate. Eventhough it is used for addiction therapy & as a maintanence medication it is still an opiate all the same. Not quite 100% like your DOCs since it is a partial agonist but it will not make your withdrawls any less if used for a period than quit cold turkey. The best application of buprenorphine (suboxone/subutex's active ingredient) in your position would be to do a quick taper with it. Start off at a dose that completely takes away your withdrawl symptoms then quickly (like 2 to 3 weeks maximum) taper off of the subs. You will still experience mild withdrawl symptoms but not nearly as bad as cold turkey. If you use suboxone without tapering you will basically be in the same WD you would be from your DOC. Also buprenorphine is almost 40X stronger than morphine so just remember that when getting into it. You may just be trading one bad habit for a worse one.

 

[Tommyboy]

Absolutely not! Why is there so much disinformation in this thread?! The only thing suboxone will do is hold your withdrawls off like any other opiate. Eventhough it is used for addiction therapy & as a maintanence medication it is still an opiate all the same. Not quite 100% like your DOCs since it is a partial agonist but it will not make your withdrawls any less if used for a period than quit cold turkey. The best application of buprenorphine (suboxone/subutex's active ingredient) in your position would be to do a quick taper with it. Start off at a dose that completely takes away your withdrawl symptoms then quickly (like 2 to 3 weeks maximum) taper off of the subs. You will still experience mild withdrawl symptoms but not nearly as bad as cold turkey. If you use suboxone without tapering you will basically be in the same WD you would be from your DOC. Also buprenorphine is almost 40X stronger than morphine so just remember that when getting into it. You may just be trading one bad habit for a worse one.

Agreed. And I think some of the earlier replies were from people just replying to the title of the thread without reading the content in the first post.

So yes, suboxone will relieve the symptoms of withdrawals while it's in your system, but once its out you will experience withdrawal, but if you taper they will be less severe. Also, make sure that you are in mod-severe withdrawals before taking the suboxone.

 

[Rox]

No, there is a ton of disinformation in this thread. The reason why you will be able to 'skip' the withdrawals is because bupe takes more than twice as long to release itself form the opioid receptors.