Can People Get Off Heroin Successfully With Methadone Maintenance Combined With Therapy?

Question by Michael: can people get off heroin successfully with methadone maintenance combined with therapy?
how about methadone clients who switch to suboxone???

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Answer by White lighting
Yes, if they’re medication compliant, and are willing to accept therapy to better themselves. They have to be able to afford it, of course, and for many this is a serious setback. Don’t know about suboxone.

Answer by Eve
I’ve been taking Suboxone for the last 2 years and finally feel that I am strong enough to go down milligram by milligram… I’m down to 1 and next month it’ll be half and then I should be done. Getting of heroin is extremely hard… it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do… I’ve never been on the methadone program, but I have a few friends that are… The higher they up their dose (usually to get high) the longer it’ll take to come off of it… and with methadone weening yourself off is a long and slow process. A friend of mine who was on the program was recently incarcerated all while he was on high doses of methadone. Obviously they don’t give you your daily methadone in jail so he had to detox from it and he said it was almost as excruciating as heroin withdrawals…

To answer your question, I think it is possible for anyone to pull themselves out of addiction. Suboxone is a better choice (even better than Subutex) because it contains Naloxone. Naloxone is a pure opiate antagonist which is normally given to someone who has just overdosed from opiates. It blocks the opiate receptors in the brain so you can’t get high… and trust me… in the beggining of my treatment I did try… The Naloxone in the Suboxone also prevents the user from crushing, diluting, and then shooting it up… I’ve been happy with it and it’s worked well for me.

In the end, recovering from heroin addiction should be taken step by step and relapse happens a lot… I guess you just really have to want to be sober to actually get sober…

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