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How To Quit Heroin

kokaino said:
I'd personally, say it's harder to get off of heroin/morphine (I include morphine because heroin's effects are due to morphine; heroin is a morphine prodrug). Morphine is the God of all the opioids - no morphine, no opioids at all.
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Are you talking oral Morphine by pill form or shooting it up?
 
DO NOT go on methadone. It'll make the addiction a million times worse. I've been on methadone since I was 17 and I'm 21 now, STILL attempting to get off it. I would take the heroin dopesick over methadone dopesick ANY day.
 
I've successfully withdrawn from methadone 7 times and successfully withdrawn from heroin 21 times. If you can't drop out of life for 7-10 days then get on methadone. You can actually quit methadone while keeping a job and going to work and all that! Heroin withdrawal is a lot harder to show up to work with.

Suboxone is of course the wild card here. One of the cheats to getting off of methadone is to replace it with heroin for 5 to 7 days, then wait 16-24 hours, then start Suboxone or Subutex.
 
hustlababy09 said:
DO NOT go on methadone. It'll make the addiction a million times worse. I've been on methadone since I was 17 and I'm 21 now, STILL attempting to get off it. I would take the heroin dopesick over methadone dopesick ANY day.
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WOW, they let you on methadone at the age of 17? I thought there were special conditions on people under the age of 18 to get on methadone.

Anyways, methadone is a great way to stop heroin/morphine, or any other opiate addiction. Yes, methadone is a heavy narcotic, but at least on methadone one can gain control of his or her life back, get a job, and recover from the horrors of opiate addiction and live normally. It's a basically a swap of addictions, but it's a positive one.

I'm almost 27 years old and I have been an addict of opiates for 11 years (since I was 15 - at 13/14 I was drinking and smoking weed). I started off with codeine, then came oxycodone and hydrocodone. Eventually, popping 10-20 pills wasn't cutting it anymore. I started to sniff Dilaudid's, morphine and heroin. When I couldn't stuff anymore powder in my nose - at the age of 19 (in 2003) I began to shoot heroin/morphine for breakfast, lunch and dinner. While I was still in college. This went on up until late 2007, when I sort of just dropped opiates and began using methamphetamine (I still did opiates too, but meth became my main DOC at this time). That wrecked me even more. So after a year of meth use, I went back heroin. I never robbed anyone or anything, I used to make my money as a dancer in a gay club (though I'm straight). Eventually I got tired of it all and entered methadone treatment. It saved my life. Yes, I still occasionally use, but now I can work (a regular job) and function normally.

This is a harm reduction site and methadone is what we endorse when one wants to quit opiates. It saved my life and it has saved millions of other lives around the globe for many years.

TheLostBoys said:
Are you talking oral Morphine by pill form or shooting it up?
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In all forms. Morphine diacetete ("heroin") is an ester salt of morphine and a morphine prodrug. 6MAM and 3MAM (which is inactive) are minor metabolites. 6MAM also is converted to morphine before binding to opioid receptors. The 2 acetyl groups (which make the morphine molecule quicker acting due to high lipid solubility) detaching from the morphine molecule is what causes the rush.
 
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You need to obtain some bupenerphine, wait 24 hours after last dose of heroin, and begin a regimen of it. Look on the internet for how you should be taking it, or find a thread here.
 
Have you thought about using a replacement to ween yourself away and then slowly taper off opiates all together.

Take a look at my blog documenting my struggle with heroin addiction

Also take a look at this guide I created for detoxing from heroin at home without professional medical help which can be expensive -6 Step Heroin Withdrawal Guide
 
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How to quit heroin:

- Go into withdrawal.

- Feel real bad for a couple days, one at least.

- Take maybe 4mg to 8mg suboxone.

- Feel better.

*also make sure that you are only using suboxone the one time, just to get you through the real mess.

*and if you can, after this week, when you are awakening and maybe getting a bit sluggish from the PAWS, then you can take a benzo (I prefer Clonezepam), and take that for a week only.

- Feel generally good, or at least ok, which is the beginning of good.
 
If you want to go cold turkey and do it on your own then you'll need some ibuprofen (take 800 mg every 4-6 hrs), clonidine (0.1-0.3 mg 2-3x/day), a long-acting benzo - diazepam is ideal (take 10-20 mg). Other long-acting benzo can do the job too like clonazepam (1-2 mg). If you don't have anything but a short-acting benzo then use it. The other thing you'll need is loperamide (Immodium) for diarrhea. Take in a lot fluids - drink a lot of water and fruit juice (orange, cranberry).
 
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