Author: Ironic

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:27 pm

I take 1.25 mg/day. My goal is to get down to .5 2x per day.

I have been on buprenorphine (I take generic bupe now) for 14 months, with only 3-4 1-3 day long relapses. Oddly enough, all but one has occurred at >2 mg.

I personally feel that maintenance doses should be kept low. 4 mg if you need the blocking effect, and 2 or less if you feel you are strong enough to be without it, and for most people, including myself, it means the very very slow, months long taper off. I believe this because buprenorphine is 20-40x as potent as morphine, and I don’t see the point of actually ending up taking more opiate then you were in the first place.

Again, just IMO.