I would imagine that many patients would strongly resist downward adjustment of their dose simply due to fear. Back when I was on methadone, there was lots of chatter about "blind dosing" and patients would often claim that there dose was being reduced without their knowledge. This led to a rules change made it SOP for the nurse to show you the amount in the cup before adding water, and you had to confirm it was the correct dose.
I never went through an induction, I was simply placed on 16mg/day to start. Later, a dosage increase was proposed by a new doc, I tried it and discovered I felt more comfortable at that dose. It makes me wonder what would motivate someone who was comfortably-stable to experiment with going lower? You could conceivably attempt this for financial reasons, or if you were experiencing negative effects from the drug, but experimenting to see how low you can go before going into withdrawal and/or relapsing seems to be a fool's game.
I never went through an induction, I was simply placed on 16mg/day to start. Later, a dosage increase was proposed by a new doc, I tried it and discovered I felt more comfortable at that dose. It makes me wonder what would motivate someone who was comfortably-stable to experiment with going lower? You could conceivably attempt this for financial reasons, or if you were experiencing negative effects from the drug, but experimenting to see how low you can go before going into withdrawal and/or relapsing seems to be a fool's game.