I posted earlier saying suboxone is a great way to get off codeine and a few people thought it would be too strong to be worth it. We however did discuss the other benefits going on it would have (taking away most of the get high mentality and a sober life)
Now just to test out the relative strength of codeine I had 3 suboxone doses in 1 day, 4+4+4=12mg of suboxone, ok high, made me feel a bit sick and agitated, not really enjoyable, main reason was I didn't want to have to dose the following 2 days as sometimes I prefer it like that. This was sunday night I did the sub dose, had nothing monday and nothing all day today until around 9pm.
Now knowing today I decided to do an experiment and see if codeine had ANY effect on me what so ever. I went in expecting ZERO high but I was pleasantly surprised. Now I haven't had codeine in almost 2 years but I have been on 4mg of suboxone daily for the last year.
Went down and got a 30x pack of nurofen plus and a 24x pack of panafen plus from separate stores, a few questions but a pretty easy process overall as I dress very cleanly and respectfully.
Now I pre loaded ~37.5mg of promethazine for the big histamine reaction I was expecting (go red, trouble breathing, horrible excruciating itch otherwise). Mushed it all up in a bottle, poured into two sunglasses bags, squeezed it all out in about 1 minute. Probably the shittiest extraction I have ever done as it was a bit milky and I just threw away about 25% of the sludge as I couldn't be bothered using it as to make the solution clear would have taken longer.
I would imagine 3-400mg max of codeine in this mix out of the 690mg. Downed it on an empty stomach and I was nodding for about 2 hours, this was possibly my strongest codeine high ever with a BIG suboxone tolerance. Felt as good as the first time I did 400mg of codeine when I had a ~120mg tolerance.
So there you go people, suboxone is probably far better than you'd think for getting you off codeine, I would imagine a 0.4-1-2mg dosage would do most of you.
Don't worry about me slipping up, whilst it was a great high it was purely a test (expensive one) that I won't be repeating. The life benefits of suboxone are fantastic, $25 a week for whatever dose you need, no pharm running, no stressing, no withdrawals, no depression, no anxiety and hundreds of people at your finger tips to help you taper down safely and effectively, not to mention help you stay clean.