Going back to opiates to get off Suboxone

Author: true717

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:31 pm

Ive done what you are considering doing. I was on subs for 5 years and decided the only way I would ever be able to quit would be by going back to full opiates for a few weeks and then quitting those opiates which should make the withdrawals pass much more quickly.

Do what you want, but as a fellow opiate addict that this was one of the worst ideas I ever had, but then again it did work.

To answer your questions, I was pretty tappered down on my subs when i did this, so I went only 24 hours after my last dose of sub to when i started the full opiates and the full opiates (morphine in this case) were effective, although no euphoria (then again, it was morphine so not much of a head high anyways). I remained on full opiates (mix of what I could get, morphine, vics, tramadol, and benzos bc I was stupid) for 21 days before I quit. I loved the full opiates so much after going back on them that I never would of quit if I didnt get arrested for a DUI on the 21st day.

To make a really long story short, I then quit al opiates after day 21. I withdrawaled from the opiates, probably some of the sub still, and my new-found benzo addiction. It was the worst withdrawal of my life, but I felt 100% back to normal after 14 days.

What I found is you can shorten the length of sub withdrawal by doing this,but the intensity of the w/d will increase a ton and it will still be a longer withdrawal compared to if u never were on subs.