bigzip44
Bluelighter
Let me start by saying I am NOT looking for any sources whatsoever. As such, to the moderators, please feel free to move this to a more appropriate part of bluelight if you see the need.
I've been addicted to opiates for 12 years. I was on subutex maintenance (16-32 mg) for the better part of a decade and getting off buprenorphine almost killed me. I've used ibogaine almost 10 times since getting off subutex to kick the residual morphine habit I had until recently thinking better of it and just staying on roughly 120 mg of MS-Contin.
Essentially, I have found, through of all of this, that I am actually quite stable and happy on baby doses of long acting morphine (certainly not my drug of choice, which is either oxycodone or heroin).
This is what I want to discuss: are there any options for people that need opiate replacement but do not want to use either methadone or suboxone/subutex?
I know for a fact that in other more enlightened countries people are given different options for opioid replacement therapy beyond simply methadone or subs and I want to know if anyone else has any more insight into this question. I am just repulsed by the thought of getting back on bupe and yet total sobriety doesn't seem to work. Morphine closes the gap and yet it leaves me functional and happy, at very low doses.
Any thoughts at all are appreciated to help me on this conundrum.
I've been addicted to opiates for 12 years. I was on subutex maintenance (16-32 mg) for the better part of a decade and getting off buprenorphine almost killed me. I've used ibogaine almost 10 times since getting off subutex to kick the residual morphine habit I had until recently thinking better of it and just staying on roughly 120 mg of MS-Contin.
Essentially, I have found, through of all of this, that I am actually quite stable and happy on baby doses of long acting morphine (certainly not my drug of choice, which is either oxycodone or heroin).
This is what I want to discuss: are there any options for people that need opiate replacement but do not want to use either methadone or suboxone/subutex?
I know for a fact that in other more enlightened countries people are given different options for opioid replacement therapy beyond simply methadone or subs and I want to know if anyone else has any more insight into this question. I am just repulsed by the thought of getting back on bupe and yet total sobriety doesn't seem to work. Morphine closes the gap and yet it leaves me functional and happy, at very low doses.
Any thoughts at all are appreciated to help me on this conundrum.