Reentering the world of heroin after 5 months sober...

[thatcrazygirl]

I've been clean from heroin for just about 5 months. Well with the help of suboxone maintenance. Up until a couple of weeks ago I haven't had any cravings, desires, or wants to use. But recently I've been fascinated with using all over again. To get to the point I'm planning on using via IV again soon, but recently I watched my friend overdose and almost die so I DONT want to take any risks. What are some good tips for getting back into dope without overdosing after you haven't used for a while? Thanks everybody!!!

 

[twotoomany]

Obviously start small. Maybe even way smaller than you think. Perhaps more info will help people with more experience give you better answers. What was your H habit like before? What was you sub dose, and how long have you been on/off sub?

 

[thatcrazygirl]

My habit was like half a gram a day or less. I only take 4-8mg of sub a day. And I've been on subs for the same timeI been clean which is like 5 months.I haven't taken my sub since 3pm yesterday and now its 830am my time.

 

[Abhaya]

Having said that i feel it would be better to stick to the sub treatment for longer and that the urge to use can be fought in various ways (no preaching here, i've done the stuff you want to do many times...), are you still on buprenorphine?

If you are still taking bupe at high maintenance doses, your tolerance should be pretty high, and the bupe will block the effects of other opiates. Otherwise, if you have not taken any opiates for a while, the situation is more risky: when i am unsure about the strenght of the dope or about my tolerance, i usually load a rig with a given amount of heroin and then i slowly inject 1/4 or 1/2 of the solution, wait for it to hit me and then decide if i can handle the rest or if i have to stop.

If you stop the injection and save the remaining solution for later, remember that you will have to refilter the solution in order to take away the possible coagulated blood that made it's way into the syringe when you registered.

 

[shimazu]

i'd wait a little bit longer just to give the subs more time to not possibly diminish any effects you may wish to indulge in in the future

3pm today would be a good minimum, and anything longer than that is an exponentially better idea

 

[thatcrazygirl]

I'm still on the bupe. 4mg Buprenorphine and 1mg (or something like that) of naloxone.. so you're telling me that because of the buprenorphine I will still have a high tolerance to opiates because its an opiate? That makes sense lol.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Make sure you have plenty of needles, so you can do a bunch of small shots if you need to.

 

[shimazu]

You will have somewhat of a cross tolerance, but I was talking more about how suboxone will block out any effects of full agonist opiates for a while

 

[thatcrazygirl]

Do you know for how long?

 

[shimazu]

It's hard to put a number on it and say it's definitely a good time because it varies from person to person. In my experience, a full day is enough to get at least most of it out to feel whatever you are trying to feel, but to be absolutely sure you aren't wasting any probably like 3 days or longer would be ideal

the most popular way of telling is waiting until you are pretty deep into feeling dope sick and then you know the subs are losing their effect

 

[thatcrazygirl]

Haha yeah I'd rather not wait til I'm dope sick so I'm just gonna wait 24 hours and do what you said with the 1/4 then half and so on and so forth. And start out with a really smalll dose.

 

[thatcrazygirl]

Well the deed is done everyone and I used everyone's advice. Thank you all very much I might not be alive without your comments. Everyone have a wonderful day!!