Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:48 am
| drugstorecowboy wrote: |
| Your suboxone taper and withdrawal discomfort will largely depend on what opioid and what dosage you were taking before you starting using buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone). If you substituted 16mg of Suboxone for a hefty regimen of opioids, your detox from Suboxone will be much worse. If you were clean before you started the Suboxone (probably not, right?) then two weeks on Suboxone would have little withdrawal effect – you could indeed stop cold turkey. (emphasis mine) |
This above is what is the most important thing that I believe you need to consider, yet you are not. You are not withdrawing from two weeks of sub. What you’re really doing is you’re using sub to taper off the opiates that you were abusing before the sub. So my question to you is what were you using before and for how long? THAT is what you’re going to be withdrawing from. Your brain doesn’t really know the difference – an opiate is an opiate is an opiate.
We use suboxone to taper off opiates because generally speaking, we addicts aren’t capable of tapering off our DOC, whereas we are quite capable of tapering off with sub.
I hope your short term taper goes well. Good luck to you and keep the updates coming. 