Let me reiterate that you going to do this.. I'm just going to throw down a little thing on half life and its relation to withdrawal.. I'm going to try and throw this in as accessible a format as i can put.. please dont think its because I am talking down to you or have any doubt about you knowledge or intelligence as the opposite is the case. I only do this because by you and I discussing these things we are hopefully helping allot of other people.. many of whom English may not be there native language.
So the half life is the amount of time it takes half of the levels of a drug to be eliminate from you system..
So if a drug has a half life of 10 hours and we took 100mg then this is how it plays out..
mg........hours
100 -50 1-10
50-25 10-20
25-12.5 20-30
12.5-6.3 30-40
6.3-3 40-50
3-1.5 50-60
a good general rule for how long it takes to pretty much get a substance out of a users system is 5x the half life of that drug.. but I always figure it as seven days as it so much nicer to see the light at the end of the tunnel two days early then have it come two days late. Plus the half lives of drugs are determined by the metabolism of the user as much as the drug.. for instance the half life of methadone is from eight hours to 140 hours. so this makes a huge difference.
So in order for us to get through the acute withdraws we need to get through the amount of time it takes to pretty much eliminate the opiates from our system and then give the system like 3.5 to four days to readjust.. though it takes longer but the first miracle happens around four days after the substance is pretty much gone.
The relevance here is that the half life of suboxone is 24 to 42 hours >
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awhile the half life or morphine (what herion turns into almost instantaneously when consumed) is 2 hours >
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Also while you have to weight to take the subs until you are in good withdrawal.. and because the bupe has a much higher affinity for the opiat than most shorter acting opiates (including herion), but also is not as strong a manipulator of these receptors. So if we take subs when we aren't sick the bupe will knock off the morphine from the receptors but when it attaches it will not stimulate them to the same extent and thus will act allot like narcan and throw us into pretty hard core withdrawals.. this is why it is good practice for herion users to keep some strips around as a weapon to try and use against an OD.
But if we think of the relationship between half life and the length of acute detox and look at it with herion and subs
then we have a length of half life times five days..
Subs 24 to 42 hours so we will figure for about thirty hours.. 5 x 30 = 150 hours + 4 days to make it to the light at the end of the tunnel so 150 + 96 = 246 hours or about ten days average
on top of the ten days we need to add in two days before the subs can even be taken with out getting sick (which is half the big herion detox

) so then we are up to pretty much two weeks in acutes.
Heroin or morphine half life of two hours or so so 2 x 5 equals ten hours + 4 days so 10 + 96 = 106 hours or about four days till you start to get allot better and see the light at the end of the tunnel.
So my suggestion to you would be to get all the medications you need and get four days off of work.. then until those days come around use the absolute bare minimum of herion.. and then jump. Give the sub to you IV using friend and have him research how to properly shoot this into an OD as it could save someones life.
You can do this.. if i can do it then so can anyone.. let alone you Sir... with the medications this will be easier, not a cakewalk but no the end of the world. that and the fact that you are making it so long with out getting real sick says to me you will have a shorter detox than is normal right now as most people are that sick within way less time than you are so this is really good news.
You got this.. just a couple of barn burners and your out of the first part.
