Author: travispnorton

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:50 pm

I don’t even have all the facts, but if the choices are Subutex or Opana:

My advice would be to stick with Subutex! Though I’m not sure what your pain issues are, it sounds to me like you’re primarially interested in Opana (or Oxycodone/Hydrocodone for that matter) for the euphoria/detachment/lowered inhibitions, which makes total sense to me as an addict. Believe me, when I was in active addiction all I wanted was to be euphoric, detached and uninhibited. The problem is that with full agonists such as Opana, it is all but impossible to maintain these in a constant state for any real length of time; I think you’ve already discovered that otherwise you likely would have never researched or been presented the option of Subutex. You aren’t asking for help choosing between Opana or Subutex because your pain wasn’t being managed on Subutex and you felt as though you needed the added analgesia of Opana to function normally, so again to me this points to Opana being soley used addictively and not because you really need, need it. I’m not even going to go into the fact that you insufflate your pills because you as well as everyone here knows that is active addiction and if not a sure recipe for disaster, it’s certainly inviting it into your life! You feared OD when you were taking 30mg of Hydro or Oxycodone, which is going to be like baby asprin compared to Opana. It doesn’t sound to me like full-agonists totally agree with you and much of what you have said jumps out to me screaming "ADDICT! ACTIVE ADDICT!" I mean this in a loving and caring way as I am an addict and most of my life has been spent around addicts in active addiction and now addicts in recovery. So, I think Subutex would be the right move for you, along with altering whatever behaviors and mindsets you have that might not be conducive to healthy living/recovery. Pain itself can’t kill you but painkillers themselves can.

-T