Heroin Cold turkey or methadone?

[Mr.BrownStone]

Which would you do if you had to do one? While cold turkey will make you miserable, with methadone you are still just a slave to an addiction. Once you kick cold turkey you are realatively free. With methadone you still wake up everyday and crawl out of bed to get your fix. Just pondering the options(fuck I hurt)

 

[sekio]

It really depends on the scale of your addiction, and whether or not you actually use the methadone as a taper drug. Being on methadone forever is functionally no different from being on smack forever. Since it has such a long half life (designed for once a day, every day dosing - like some antidepressants) the taper will take longer than shorter-acting drugs like heroin. (The shortest are things like fentanyl and hydromorphone).

If you are at the scale where you can still complain on the internet about your pain, you probably should just wait it out. Smoke a joint and have a hot bath with epsom salts. A methadone taper will take much more of your time and money than a week of feeling sore. Really, the best option in my eyes is a taper with whatever drug you're using currently, but that's unlikely unless you have a strong willed friend to make you adhere to your taper.

Get off your butt and do some excercise as soon as you can. It helps a lot.

And remember, it doesnt matter what choice you make if you're just going to go back onto dope (or be on indefinite methadone maintenance). Don't make yourself suffer needlessly. If you kick dope, stay off it for a good long while.

 

[kush]

Kicking Methadone is 100x worse then kicking dope, with dope you'll start feeling better in 3-5 days, with methadone it will be WEEKS before you start feeling better.. Before I knew better I stopped smoking dope and scored some Methadones, thinking they would be easier to taper... Well I got my dose down to 5 milligrams of Methadone jumped off and assumed it wouldn't be that bad, boy was I wrong... I waited 4 days and with no sign of the symptoms dying down and reading more about Methadone I decide to pick up some smack and just w.d of that. Dope w.d. sucks yes but its over before you know it..

 

[rocketqueen]

It really depends on the scale of your addiction, and whether or not you actually use the methadone as a taper drug. Being on methadone forever is functionally no different from being on smack forever. Since it has such a long half life (designed for once a day, every day dosing - like some antidepressants) the taper will take longer than shorter-acting drugs like heroin. (The shortest are things like fentanyl and hydromorphone).

If you are at the scale where you can still complain on the internet about your pain, you probably should just wait it out. Smoke a joint and have a hot bath with epsom salts. A methadone taper will take much more of your time and money than a week of feeling sore. Really, the best option in my eyes is a taper with whatever drug you're using currently, but that's unlikely unless you have a strong willed friend to make you adhere to your taper.

Get off your butt and do some excercise as soon as you can. It helps a lot.

And remember, it doesnt matter what choice you make if you're just going to go back onto dope (or be on indefinite methadone maintenance). Don't make yourself suffer needlessly. If you kick dope, stay off it for a good long while.

I think this is solid advice. How long you have had a habit, and what you have been taking are the two things you want to consider before getting on methadone. For example, if you have been popping Vicodin for three months and have yourself a little habit, buck up and get through it. ZIf you have been banging heroin for two, three, five years, methadone might be the way to go. If you are ready to get off this ride...