Author: TeeJay

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:31 pm

Hey guys kinda wanting some insight / assistance here. This isn’t for me so much as a friend. At the height of my addiction I was using a gram of China white heroin a day. It was a decent habit, but it wasn’t enough to make induction too much of a nightmare. I’m trying to help a friend get some of their life back, only they’re using more like 2-3 grams of china a day. That’s like over $1000 a day worth of heroin they’re using. Once you get up to that level of dependence it can be harder to induce on Suboxone.

Has anyone here got experience in switching to Suboxone from heroin when you’re running a large habit? Would it be more realistic to look at methadone? The only thing about methadone is that they’d be tied to a clinic, and only be able to get 2x take-aways a week. There’s a reason they call it "liquid handcuffs". If you wanna make recovery worthwhile, you gotta be able to experience some freedom from doing it. And methadone ties you down too much for that IMO.