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Hello, poly substance addict, looking for tips on how to go about detox.

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A bit about myself, I like to make music, hip hop instrumentals and techno (experimental, minimal). I have hardware and software that i use for this, i also used to mine ethereum and various crypto currencies. I love 3d printing and rep rap idea : replicating rapid prototyper. Basically having a 3d printer that can print a large percentage of the parts it functions with, making it easy to 3d print a set of parts that can be used to build a clone. Adrian Bowyer, the father of this concept is a particularly intelligent and inspiring person. I also like snowboarding and longboarding, but sadly havent done any hobby or recreational sport for a long time.
I have been addicted to morphine, injected, for over 6 years doses up to a gram a day and methylphenidate, benzodiazepines, cigarettes and your occasional cocaine, mdma ....or other times your occasional dissociative bender lasting a week or in the most damaging of scenarios two or even three weeks of round the clock dosing, many doses per day/night, un slept nights (really hard on the body and mind if doing 3-meo-pcp/pce or 3-ho-pcp/pce)
I was sent to a mental clinic that specialises on recovering addicts, and in 6 months of therapy i got over my benzo addiction and i went half way down on my opiate consumption, i am now on 30mg levomethasan (levomethadone) (equivalent of 60 methadone), 500mg pregabalin twice a day, 20mg methylphenidate and zolpidem for sleep.
every month i plan on lowering 5mg of the levomethadone until i get to only 5mg, then i will do half mg a week. Then i have to deal with the high dosage of pregabalin and after all that is done, i have to find a way to sleep without the zolpidem. cigarettes are also on my list of things i need to stop consuming, but that is rather ambitious for the near future, specially since my personal life just majorly fell apart and i am still sifting through the wreckage. Any tips on dealing with opiate withdrawls, or proven to work systems, also interested if people know how to get rid of the pregabalin dependency, i stopped taking it for a few days right when i got out of the detox place i was in ... and i felt absolutely horrible, just like benzo withdrawal, it took me a minute to realise what was causing it. Felt ok after i started taking it again. I was told that 1g pregabalin daily is a large dosage (500mg morning/500mg night) i would like to know if there are any serious side effects from taking such a dosage for prolonged periods of time.
 
If u in Europe-gobto free detox....or psychyatry.....at least there give some meds.shitty,but meds.and u can smoke&is allowed to have phone&listen music
 
Hi guy; what country are ya from? Im on 30-40 mg methadone and 1mg clonazepam and 150 mg pregabalin.
I stopped taking the pregabalin and felt like utter crap; but it is easy to taper; I was on 600. But if I miss more than one day I am feeling it bigtime;like you said benzo like.
Trying to taper clonazepam currently; doc has me dropping .25 mg every three weeks; I am a little scared of that!
Then the methadone, then the pregabalin; its gonna be awhile. I would try a detox center; but here in Oregon they wont take you if you are on benzos and opiates! Like they think its too hard or that you are gonna overdose or something. Plus rehabs in USA are self pay and I don't have the money.
 
Hi guy; what country are ya from? Im on 30-40 mg methadone and 1mg clonazepam and 150 mg pregabalin.
I stopped taking the pregabalin and felt like utter crap; but it is easy to taper; I was on 600. But if I miss more than one day I am feeling it bigtime;like you said benzo like.
Trying to taper clonazepam currently; doc has me dropping .25 mg every three weeks; I am a little scared of that!
Then the methadone, then the pregabalin; its gonna be awhile. I would try a detox center; but here in Oregon they wont take you if you are on benzos and opiates! Like they think its too hard or that you are gonna overdose or something. Plus rehabs in USA are self pay and I don't have the money.
damn those are shitty laws, the people that need detox psychiatry the most are poly dependent people (opi+benzo) i live in Austria at the moment. Most of the people i met in the detox center were either on coke or opiates and benzos, somehow downers go together. I was also on clonazepam, i tapered down from 10mg daily to 2 mg daily in 2 months then down to 0 in another 2 months the first part of the taper was really steep and i was getting 140bpm heart rate and cardiac distress signs, it was really bad i am just glad i am over benzos, I hope i can manage getting rid of the levomethadone and lyrica also. Do you guys have the option of levomethadone in the USA ?
 
No; I only know methadone tabs 10mg that were offered for pain relief since 2006 from a pain management center. Picked up monthly.
I got a fucked up neck from whiplash; and its only gotten much worse since my last surgery a little over a year ago.
But never even talked with pain doc about addiction; which is definitely a side effect of being on narc/benzo meds so long.
Drug dependent; meet junkie. it does suck for whatever reason you get on substance. Getting back off; I feel so alone. Makes me wanna take up drinking!

I kicked cocaine, meth, alcohol, pot, and nicotine; yet get labeled, and therefore become; just another druggie
 
I kicked cocaine, meth, alcohol, pot, and nicotine; yet get labeled, and therefore become; just another druggie
Embrace it brother, its what i do, I have been on and off a huge amount of chemicals, many dissociatives, like the 4 possible pcp analogues 3 - meo / ho -pcp/pce so 3meopcp,3hopcp,3meopce,3hopce and tryptamines, benzodiazepines, uppers and barbiturics...all fentanyl analogues including the carfentanyl type absolutely suicidal fents...then i got off them, now i am struggling with basic pharmaceuticals lol.... but it is true, these drugs have a hold on me, or the ones i have kicked had a hold on me at some point, so i find its only fair to be treated as such. but i understand how in your case, seeing that you went in for pain meds, and it turned out to be a addiction path that you were not warned about. Yes i see how that might make you rightfully angry
 
Angry for sure; I wasn't warned properly but being a drug lover for years, and a Bluelight lurker since, well, ever, I can't say I didn't research my meds and pretty much knew what was going to happen to me. I had kids to raise and money to try and make; so I took them as a compromise with myself, to help me function while I had lots of responsibilities; but now I don't have as many and the DEA is squeezing all opiate and benzo users at this point as an extension to the war on drugs and OD epidemic. Younger docs are being schooled differently regarding these drugs; so old head doctors are getting harder to come by. Time to kick as much as I can; I can read the writing on the wall. The stigma is much worse than it was 15 years ago; which I have noticed and don't like it, I am a schoolteacher so need to come off as sober, more or less, but I have found I can't work much with chronic pain with less meds. So acceptance of my fate; maybe changing jobs to something easier or less stressful (UBER, or selling real estate, in my case) sounds more feasible to me now
 
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