It helps w everything about opiate w/d....but not forever. It helps w tapering off of opiates. My experience is I can get about five or six days out of it. And then the withdrawal breaks through, and you are in an advanced stage, because the Lyrica was masking the symptoms, not taking them away.
Once, I took about six hundred mg's, fell asleep for six hours, woke up at 3a.m. and immediately was violently vomitting. What a shit day that was. I shudder thinking about it. That is my personal experience. Everyone is different.