Getting a small amount of suboxone to get through heroin withdrawal

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So I have stupidly found myself with a heroin habit again, and one that I know I can't maintain. My two supply lines have hit very bad fates. I can't afford it. It's bad for me. All among a number of other reasons. Anyway I'm pretty worried about withdrawal. Right now I am dealing with some issues from all fronts, family, girl, job, basically the whole buffet. When I think about doing this I get very worried. I have only been on heroin for about three weeks, but before that I was doing Oxy and Roxy for a month, heavy. And before that it was maybe four months of Hydrocodone abuse, which got heavy itself. Long story short I got myself into a bit of Hydro back in the springtime after a year off of opiates, pretty soon I was using that at such ridiculous levels that the Oxy came as a relief. Then of course the natural progression back to heroin because Oxy is a once a month thing at best. And thats the short of it, how I find myself here with a killer opiate problem again.

Ok so what I'm wondering is how I could get myself onto a fast-track program using either Methadone or Suboxone to withdrawal. I'm talking about only a few days of either here. I have been all the way down the Methadone road and I have no intention of going there again, not to mention it would be setting myself into a much heavier addiction than the H, and I do not want that. I would like to find a doctor who would get me just enough of either one to do a weeks withdrawal. I have heard, from people on these boards, that this is an effective method to get through withdrawal. And I believe it too because each have much longer half lives and I have found that using a longer half life drug when coming off of a shorter half life drug to be effective. Basically it seems that the longer drug takes your through the beastly part of withdrawal without getting you addicted to the new drug.

Anyway, is anyone familiar with getting a doctor to give you only a short order dose of Methadone or Suboxone, in order to get through withdrawal. Experiences all around would be helpful.
 
I actually just posted a similar thread in TDS the other day, you might be able to find some answers in there - I too am currently on a short-term (I'm thinking four or five days tops) suboxone taper to semi-detox ease the withdrawal from oxycodone. Hope this helps.

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=522870

Although I get my suboxone from a friend, not a doctor. Another friend of mine recently visited her doctor who refused to prescribe her sub unless she agreed to long term maintenance including intensive outpatient and other forms of treatment. She basically said fuck that and is looking for another doctor, but I'm sure there has to be SOME bupe doctors that would prescribe a week's worth just for detox purposes.
 
I imagine that you'd be hard pressed to find a doctor that didn't want to keep you on sub maintenance for at least a month or two. That said, you might find it useful to get started on a suboxone program, even after I relapsed I would use my sub script to help me withdraw or stay straight for at least a short period of time. You might also just find sub to be a wonder-drug and decide to give a long term maintenance program a try.
 
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