Clinics that let patients raise their dose to levels so ridiculously high like 300mg's + should be shut down. It's an incredible breach of ethics.
My last clinic let you increase as long as test negative for One weekly tox, let's not forget the toxes are not supervised . I got up to 130mg, until it got to the point where my family got worried I always went to bed at 4pm and breathing was all shallow as I was addicted to Xanax. It was ridicoclous . The clinic I'm in now let's you go high as you want by either 5 or 10mg increments as long as you don't test positive for cocaine or benzos , ironically if you test positive for opiates they aitomatically bump you up, at the least, and positives for Benzos or cocaine will result in a 2 month pause in your dose . I'm on 95mg and feel the same as I did on 130mg. It's all mental . Methadone is powerful , there is no reason to be above 80mg in
My opinion ...plus for me when I'm above 100mg I start to sweat profusely just over making my bed, or walking . It was ridicolus
^This....Right on the money guys. There might be someone who needs over 100 mgs, but I've never met them!
The clinics will raise you basically as high as you want as long as you pay...It's highly suspect, and completely unethical!
There's the whole, "I need a split dose because I metabolize methadone too quickly for it to hold me 24 hours" brand of liars out there...
They give you a "peak and trough" test that supposedly can tell if you need to dose methadone twice a day...But, I don't know a single person that they've ever refused because the test came back that their "levels" were high enough! It's a scam, Pretty much everyone who merely claims the dose doesn't hold them all day can get a split dose...and the reason 98% of anyone asks for that in the first place is so they can take the 80 mgs they really need, and sell the rest off!
I'm 36, and I've weighed between 150-170 lbs since I was 15, regardless of what I eat or what I do...and when I'm on heroin, I use massive amounts of the shit IV(not dicksizing, just saying)...
80-100 mgs has held me for 24 hours regardless of how !much heroin I was on....There's no way that, that amount can hold me for a day, but some 300 lb 21 year old girl who was doing 160 mgs of oxy everyday for 2 years needs 270 mgs on a split dose? It's fucking absurd!
They have people on a higher mg methadone than the amount of oxy they were doing, and it's how many times stronger?!
I'm sorry, but it's just unbelievable that there's people out there that can't even find treatment for their severe opiate addiction, but in certain places, if you have the money...they'll raise you to a dose that could kill your whole family going back 4 generations to treat a 40mg a day hydrocodone habit!
But, I digress...opiate naive, 20-30 mgs should be the max you take, provided you've used nothing else.