I feel like with Suboxone becomin so popular and wide spread that methadone is gettin a bad rap. Soooo many people get on sub when they get A-arrested, B-caught by their parents or BF/GF/job, etc, or C-finally decide to give bein sober a shot. Its like sub is seen as the "good" treatment now and methadone is the "bad" outdated treatment.
To be totally honest, I feel like Suboxone aint that effective for certain users. The people who have tried over and over to get clean, the ppl who have OD'd, got arrested over and over, who been caught countless times, who just keep usin--in my experience those ppl dont do good with suboxone. Methadone is a more realistic and helpful option for folks in that position.
If you have only done dope for a year, if you did it for 6 months, if you never shot dope, if you had a short term habit whether it was IV or not, sub will probably work for you. and i aint sayin that it cant work for certain ppl, it all depents on the person them self, there aint no "rules" about it.
Im just sayin, it seems to me like sub aint too effective and dont work too good for the "hardcore" addicts. From ppl ive talked to and known, most of the ppl who had habits that were longer and had been in it for a while and kept on failin, sub just dont do it for them. I feel that way, i started usin when I was 16 and Im 23 now and I just finally got off the shit a few months ago. Sub just didnt do it for me, it was never 'enough' , it could not break thru and make me feel normal no matter the dose that I took, even taking it for a whole week straight without goin back onto dope i still could not do it. but methadone is a god send, like i said before and like lots of other ppl said too, it saved my life.
i aint sayin one is better than the other.
Just that ppl got a habit of fallin in love with the "new thing." Now that suboxone is the "better" treatment, you know how they say its less addictive, less this less that, bla bla bla, you can do it at home, no clinic, aint gonna be associated with "junkie life", etc. it definately gets this "savior" kind of respect from alot of ppl that see it as "methadone, upgraded version."
My point is just that BOTH of them need to stay just as available. Even now i see doctors and rehabs kind of fazing out methadone for suboxone detox. Detoxes if they used medication used to have methadone as a default. Now they are much more common to use suboxone to detox you. It aint a bad thing, Im just sayin, in the medical world ,. in the media and in some users it seems to be like , the next big thing, the drug that will make methadone obsolete, like somehow its better than methadone. And that aint true. they both got their ups and downs but it seems like its losin popularity and i hope it dont get left in the dust by over eager doctors and marketers who want to get on that "future" shit and write off the shit that been workin for the past 50 years.
and i dont think its just gonna disappear, im just sayin, that attitude u showed in ur post above me is the shit I been hearin from alot of ppl who seems to feel that sub is better, but take it from a person who really honestly just needs that heavy duty opiate shit--methadone is just as good, just for a different kind of user. I aint proud of it but I feel like my addiction came from that need to have some serious, heavy duty sedating shit every day, all the time, I dont know why, but sub it just did not fill that hole that was left empty when i didnt do dope. Methadone does. I feel like in a way its a more powerful drug than suboxone (not pound for pound as far as its actual potency but just over all the way that methadone can calm down a feened out junkie whose buggin the fuck out and dopesick, and get them to commit to stayin clean, in ways that suboxone 100% cant.)
Thats just my opinion tho....And if you see this post repeated, its cuz it really made me think, and Ima ask a question like this in OD, I dont want to get too off topic here but i would def. like to hear wat folks got to say about that.