Opioids Does anyone know what strength Methadone liquid is?

[Crack Wizard]

I have found myself with a minor opiate habit, from just over a week of using, so the withdrawals aren't going to be horrendous. I was wondering if anyone knew what dosage it comes in, it's a dark green menthol-smelling liquid, not in the original bottle (of course, otherwise I would know). They recommended taking 40ml the first day, 30ml the next, 20ml, 10ml. I like to know exactly how much he's doing, and would greatly appreciate if anyone can help.

- Wizard.

 

[Rakastan]

That should be 1 mg/1 ml, according to the people on the street and to Wikipedia. I wouldn't necessarily trust it, though, unless you saw the seal on the bottle being broken. It's probably ok, but at least in my area, it has a reputation as being frequently watered down, and more likely to be something else than pretty much everything else you can buy.

A methadone detox like that is serious, serious overkill for a week of use, even if you were getting high every two hours round the clock for that full week (I speak from personal experience with that example). I did inpatient detox after three months of shooting 2 bundles a day, and my methadone doses were 25, 20, 15, 10 and 5. Not enough to avoid some pain, I was functioning 100% after the first night. Some leg aches and sweats, that's it. Even my boyfriend, who had one of the scariest habits I've ever seen before he got mostly clean 10 years back, can manage withdrawal after a week of use, without any comfort meds or time off work.

Honestly, a week of use will lead to a joke of a withdrawal for basically everyone. Some won't have a great time, and those who are closer to being naive will likely feel almost nothing.

I don't know what your history is, but unless you had a MASSIVE habit for a good part of your life, you just don't need anything. Especially not that. Save the methadone for a time it's truly needed. Or sell it for a pretty decent amount of your DOC. 100 mg of methadone is really valuable in my neck of the woods. If you really can't handle it, get some tramadol, Imodium, clonidine, or some kind of benzo. That should be more than enough.

Even if you feel a little off, being dope sick is part of the game. If you're opiate naive, spend the time distracting yourself, and having fun, because the worst of your symptoms will be psychosomatic.

 

[downerhead]

At the clinic I used to go to,their pinkish purple liquid methadone was 1mg per IU.So 10 units in a syring would be 10mg,a full 100 units/1ml/1cc would be 100mg and so on.I don't know if it is standardized among manufacturers though.Personally never seen green menthol flavored liquid methadone.

 

[Keif' Richards]

The green shit is the DTF formula and its 1mg/ml if I'm not mistaken. Never had it personally, I've only had the flouresecent red/pink stuff that's 10mg per ml. I wish I could comment on whether or not they dilute the DTF stuff before dispensing it like they do with the more concentrated stuff. They tend to almost double the volume of liquid when dispensing the red shit which would make determining the strength of the liquid you have impossible.

You mentioned that the liquid is not in its original bottle. This could be a really big issue if you did not watch the supplier pour it from a bottle with an unbroken seal into whatever vessel you're carrying it in. In my opinion there are too many variables in play to accurately determine the dosage of your methadone liquid.

A week of using is not really an opiate habit, it's more like an opiate binge. You're withdrawal is not serious enough to warrant a methadone taper. Even if you had done a crazy amount of drugs, and there is of course a limit to what any human being with little tolerance can handle, you would be fine. You might have some general malaise but convincing yourself that you require methadone for such a minor problem this early in your opiate career will only further reinforce your drug-seeking, self-medicating behavior.

Besides all of that, if you do take the methadone, which I know you will, 40mgs will probably fuck you up. Not to the point of being lethal, but you'll probably be napping pretty hard 4-5 hours post consumption.

 

[downerhead]

Not to mention the fact the OP will probably love the methadone and this can lead to a real habit that will reqire maintenance drugs.OP never said what kind of opiates they binged with but if I had only been doing any opiates for a week I would personally just let the stuff work out of my system,easing the discomfort with some carefully administered,sensible doses of benzos and a few drinks.I don't like weed myself but if you do it would certainly be the safest way of dealing with the discomfort of minor withdrawls.

 

[Rakastan]

Methadone is no joke. Seriously. My boyfriend fell out on 120mg (recreational) plus Xanax this weekend, and I spent an entire day keeping him upright and breathing. It was the scariest, most fucked up thing I have ever seen, and I've seen some shit over the years. I started MMT today, and I'm really not happy about doing it. But I don't think there's any other way for me to stay sober. My tolerance is high, and 40mg even makes me tired. Not sleepy, but enough that I'll notice it a bit. Methadone, even just for a short time, should be a last-ditch emergency temporary solution.

I started using various substances before the internet was really a thing. So after my first week using dope, I didn't even know what withdrawal was. I didn't have all this horrifying information available to scare me. (If anything, it would more likely have scared some sense into me, not scared me into the arms of the ultimate opiate.) Found out at the clinic today I'm considered a person who has abused drugs for 23 years, despite long stretches of abstinence. And after more than two decades, this year is the first year I've resorted to anything more than clonidine and Ativan. I go in with a heavy heart, a lot of research under my belt, and a lot of research yet to do to determine how to succeed and get off the methadone as soon as possible. To resort to such a beast after a week is totally crazy.

I really hope the OP and other people who pop in to this thread realize that it's serious to deal with this shit. Yeah, heroin is serious, it can kill you, it takes everything, and the withdrawal sucks. But in my life, I've met just one person who has anything good to say about methadone, except as a detox from a real habit, not a little binge. The consensus online seems to be the same. I've been told it's called liquid handcuffs for good reason, and I am sad my life has come to this point. Even withdrawal after a 2-month binge was tolerable not long ago, but I'm finally too old and too tired to go through it. I'm saying this at 35. Cancer, drug abuse, malnourishment, lack of housing, stress, etc, all wear a body down. My boyfriend is in his 40s and drugs have taken his youth away, too. It's sad. I like this forum but I hate seeing the younger people who have no clue what they are in for.

Dope is the best thing ever. But if you're only one week in, walk away and forget all about it. Forever. It's never going to be that good again.