Opiates - Multiple Recovery's - Getting Easier

[SkagKush]

I didnt quite know how to articulate the title so i will be open to suggestions if anyone cares.....

well ive been using heroin for way to long it feels like, been on bupe for almost a year now to....anyways to my point... i can remember the first three or so times getting clean to be horrible...these withdrawals came after extended periods of use, these times being a year or more.....and i remember being down and depressed and tired for months at a time (PAWS).

well nowadays ive been there and done that countless times and it just seems that my recovery and bounce back time is much quicker...this isnt to say i wont relapse and do it all over again tho8)......these periods of use are shorter of course....maybe ill be using for like a month, heavily, right back to old ways instantly....

im wondering if the brain will adjust to these emotions and just go through the motions? you know? or is it just the fact im on SMT thats helping with this.......or periods of use? i could go on....

insight?

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[suessmayr]

I don't really follow. Are you asking us whether you seem to be able to 'bounce back' because of the buprenorphine? I think that is almost a certainty.

Most people will agree that withdrawal is an experience that inevitably gets worse with time. We lose our ability to just bounce back in the context of serious drug addictions. Buprenorphine is an opiate, so it is either 1) blocking the heroin, so that there's not actually any withdrawal to endure, or 2) mitigating the withdrawal.

You know presumably about buprenorphine's massive binding affinity? So that taking other opiates on doses of above 2mg bupe becomes essentially pointless?