I actually wrote an article here about how to quit from suboxone. It might help answer some of your questions:
http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/828077-Here-is-some-good-SUBOXONE-info-to-HELP-YOU-QUIT!
First off yes, you can use suboxone as a short term detox. Another benefit is the psychological help since if you relapse on opiates within 36-72 hours of taking suboxone you won't feel anything due to suboxone's blocking effects.
In that article I also linked to an in depth article a suboxone doctor wrote regarding his successful experience with getting paitients off suboxone. It was written for other doctors to read. I don't like the official suboxone guide
(the one you linked) as the company is there to make money. That article has some truth to it but it is written with legal issues and financial potential.
In my experience, due to suboxone's ceiling effect, most people need much less to achieve the same effect. I was prescribed 8mg a day when coming off my addiction
(three 30mg roxis a day for several months) and found I only needed 2mg a day to starve off withdrawals
(and reduce the negative side effects of suboxone). This is part because of suboxone's long 36-72 hour half-life. Every day you take suboxone at least HALF of what you took yesterday is still inside you. So you're stacking it.
On Day 1-2 you took 6mg each day. That means on day 2 you actually had 9mg in your system. On Day 3 you took 4mg which means you had 4.5mg left from day 2 resulting in 8.5mg total in your body. By Day 10, even though you only took 1mg, you actually had about 4mg in your body.
If that 1mg dose on day 10 was effective then it means the actual dose you needed in your body at any one time is no more then 4mg.
The way you are suppose to cut down on suboxone is to take the lowest dose you can handle and take that same dose for 3 DAYS. By day 3 you should be stable with mild
(but tolerable) withdrawal. You can then reduce by 25-50% and take only that dose for 3 days. By doing this I got down from 2mg a day to .5mg in 2 weeks. At about .5mg to .25mg most people quit. The dose is so low it means you have sufficiently lowered your tolerance to have milder withdrawal symptoms.
The catch with suboxone is that the withdrawal symptoms are not as intense but they last longer. Instead of 3-5 days of hard withdrawals from an opiate you will have 5-10 days of a milder withdrawal. Luckily OTC medication like 500-1000mg of Tylenol & 400-600mg of Ibuprofen
every 4-6 hours
(for body aches), 60-120ml Loperamide
(for loose stool, energy and muscle aches) and 3-5mg of melatonin at night
(for sleep) should be sufficient to get past the mild but longer lasting symptoms.
Klonopin is effective for the first 1-3 days of withdrawal off of suboxone. This is because it will lower your blood pressure. High blood pressure is the main cause during withdrawal that causes the muscle aches, anxiety and insomnia. Although Xanax, Valium and Flexeril work the same way they have different half lives. Xanax is a few hours requiring many doses while the latter 2 are several days risking that you might stack it up in your system or feel groggy for longer then necessary. Klonopin is effective because it has a half life of about 35 hours which means it will keep your blood pressure down for a solid night and day and night again. Usual dose needed is .25mg then another .25mg an hour later if not effective.
Check out the post I liked above, the info there and the article written by the doctor was what helped me get off of an 18 month suboxone maintenance program in about 30 days. If you have only been on suboxone for less then 30 days it should work even faster for you.