The best opioid addiction treatment is more opioids

The best treatment for opiod addiction is quiting, making your mind up to quit using, and never turning back. If you have it in your mind that drug use is bad, and you no longer want to use them, you will quit. Using other opiods to quit opiods is simply fueling future use, and relapse. You need to train your brain what a normal mind feels like when not influenced by drugs, and to enjoy the normal. The next thing is to train your brain to realize and acknowledge that you where hurting yourself, first and foremost, but also other people, those closest to you, and to dislike that person you where while on those drugs, to a very high degree, so much so, that it repulses you at the very thought of who you where. Finally, you need to gain acceptance for who you want to become and who you are working hard to become, define the things that will make you a happier person, each and every day. And set boundaries. People, places, and things that remind you of using, avoid them, at all costs. One day at a time.

I guess whatever keeps you from using street drugs do it…I did methadone for a couple years and it has its own positives and negatives. I find that just going cold turkey and then eating right exercise and focusing on my mental health is the better alternative. Also going to meetings is an important first step to quitting because it allows you to be social because you have to cut off everyone that you were associated to drugs with

Methadone is the devil's brew and the withdrawal last months or years.

Sounds like big pharma sponsored this video. Obviously you should never try to go cold Turkey right away, especially not under medical supervision, but doctors have told me methadone withdrawals are worse than any other opiate period. Then you are a customer for life. You should try everything you can to go through a non narcotic medical detox and do not go from one drug to another. You will never truly reclaim your life and yourself, trust me. Suboxone and especially methadone is not your answer. Also look into ibogaine

I got off methadone a month and a half ago after 8 years. I just wanted let you guys know what helped me. ibuprofen worked really well to combat the restless legs/body, as well as light exercise, eating grapes, raspberries, blueberries and anything else that has anti-inflammatory properties. Fatty and processed foods can definitely make things worse. Best to schedule the ibuprofen around meals cause you may need to take a lot of it, and taking it with food will protect your stomach better. Vitadone (a type of multi-vitamin) also worked well for me to combat the excessive sweating. Magnesium Glycinate, CBD, 5-HTP, B1, B6 are also recommended supplements, but I would personally recommend taking them with dinner and not immediately before bed (with the exception of CBD and magnesium). I also felt that compression socks helped a bit with the restlessness. I tried MANY other things, but these are the things I feel are worth mentioning. Insomnia is part of the process, but these things may help. During the sleepless nights I watched a lot of TV, played video games, and took long walks with headphones. Good luck! It won’t be easy, but things that are worth having are worth working hard for ❤

I quit with kratom

Hope some very nice person can answer this straightforward question for me. When switching from methadone to morphine what is the safe time interval from the last dose of one to the first dose of another?? For example, let's say hypothetically i took a 5 mg tab of methadone at midnight. How long should i wait before taking 30 mg ER morphine? Six hours? 12 hours? Until I am sick? Starting to feel early stage WD about now but could be mind games. Thanks again.

VERY IMPORTANT!! KRATOM CAN SAVE YOU FROM OPIOID WITHDRAWAL BETTER THAN ANY MEDICINE!!! KRATOM!!!

On Resting and pleasure: a novel and simple procedure and perspective to increasing opioid activity from affective neuroscience

Procedure: Consistent and periodic alternation between a resting protocol (e.g. mindfulness) and the exclusive pursuit of meaningful behavior will increase motivation and positive affect (arousal and pleasure), and by making meaningful ideation more emotionally salient, will increase productive motivation and crowd out thoughts leading to anxiety and depression.
Explanation: Resting elicits opioid activity, or feels pleasurable, and meaningful behavior, as defined as behavior that has branching novel and positive outcomes (writing that great novel or just making the bed) elicits dopamine activity which causes attentive arousal. The awareness of subsequent meaningful behavior while engaging in relaxation protocols such as mindfulness elicits a ‘priming’ response, namely dopamine release that enhances ongoing opioid activity, and vice versa, making meaningful behavior seem self-reinforcing or ‘autotelic’, with cognition less likely to transition to perseverative thought (worry, regret, distraction) that elicits tension or anxiety. In other words, arousal and pleasure (i.e., dopamine and opioid) systems when simultaneously activated by disparate stimuli are synergistic, and co-activate each other to be more than the affective sum of their parts.

Although meditative practice reduces discursive thought or mind wandering that can lead to negative ideation or perseverative thought; it does not inhibit concurrent non-conscious awareness or anticipation of behavior or events subsequent to meditation that can in turn shape or ‘prime’ affective responses during a meditative session. A priming response, like the salivary response that precedes food or the sexual arousal that precedes intimacy, is a preparatory response that often occurs non-consciously, and changes the affective value or ‘feeling’ in the moment. Similarly, relaxing due to ‘being in the moment’ is pleasurable, but if we were told to expect ‘bad’ news or ‘good’ news in the near future, just the awareness of future events is enough to depress or elevate our feelings, but not altering in the slightest our ‘mindful’ or relaxed state. It follows that if mindfulness is paired with the awareness of subsequent positive or meaningful behavior, then rest in mindfulness will have a greater affective tone or ‘feel better’ than if such a prospect or expectancy was absent. This is perhaps why ‘savoring’, ‘loving kindness’ meditation, and ‘flow’ experiences represent highly pleasurable and arousing experiences, as they make future positive ideation contingent to obvious or subtle pleasures (due to relaxation, eating, drinking) and contrast with a lower level of pleasure during typical states of rest that generally precede a return to meaningless discursive thinking.

From ‘the book of rest, the odd psychology of doing nothing’ from the open source publishing web site scribd

Your 100% wrong about methadone. U can still get high and its nothing like subo

My problem is codeine So i'm growing opium poppies to try and get off codeine I've Noticed a big difference Raw opium is way more powerful And does not feel the same

methadone saved my frikin life

A lot of you need to edit your post write” I was addicted to XYNZ when we had the Covid unemployment money”

Business fell off after that swim would know

You know what else is even better with all that on top is all that plus stims and then whatever music addicts listen to swim is deep in music now maybe a full story about playlist like something interesting instead of this deep state, bullshit. I’ll write
That one. My ex girlfriend was an English major at Columbia, obv. So what does that mean? I punch up or something? insecure that I was not Ivy I was but all right that’s enough.

I think subutex or suboxone withdrawal is 10x worse than heroin or fentanyl withdrawal.

Darvocet instead of methadone for all pills, dope...

I don’t care about the high part at all but if they can make me feel normal I’m good.

You can't treat opioid addiction with another opioid. If all you are doing is swapping heroin for methadone you are not treating the addiction. Sure it can help to avoid the complications of street heroin but it's just another subsitute for heroin. I say this as a repeated addict to both.
The sad thing is that often when people want help to get clean from heroin the only option they will be given is swapping one addiction for another. Actually getting clean will be actively discouraged.
Personally, I was put on methadone due to a morphine habit. I took morphine orally and had no experience of injecting prior to going on the methadone program. It was only through visiting the treatment centre that I was introduced into the world of intravenous drug use.

Ibogaine is a massively effective psychedelic treatment for addiction, and requires no more than one experience.

As a long time opioid user for chronic pain, I generally agree with this although I would not recommend methadone. My pain doctor got me off of it and on to buprenorphine albeit a relatively high dose. It is less dangerous especially as you age he said. The down side is buprenorphine is very expensive. Methadone is cheap.

Metadone kills your organs, what about Vivitrol? Helps depression also

Trauma.

I pray that God free the person reading this from any and all addictions. Give them supernatural healing so they don’t have to go through withdrawal God. Give them strength and peace God. Restore their relationships and family that may have been torn apart God. In Jesus name, amen!

It is true

Btw addicts don’t do drugs to get high anymore they just use it to not be sick and feel normal

L-tyrosine makes withdrawals nearly non existent ❤

Sick sick sick

My treatment starts this week, wish me luck 🍀

Herion for me was not feeling the withdrawl i was so afraid of... i used zanex to get off of herion. I never felt an ounce of herion withdrawl. Im now completely sober from anything for a year. Ive gotten my life back. Ive gotten me back. Ive built a life formyself and gotten to enjoy it. (To anyone who is thinking of using methadone dont do it. It gets into your bones. Aka worse than herion.) (Ive heard.)

Suboxone is the devil. All of the negatives of opioid addiction and none of the positive. I’ve been on it for 10 years and am terrified to get off because of withdrawal. If I could tell anyone looking to clean up go through a medical detox without Suboxone and get on with life.

Now they quote trump

Now they quote Trump the greatest President ever. It fits their narrative. This woman is not telling the whole truth

I too fought the devil with a demon. It was a lot easier and I have no idea how I bounced back to normalcy so quickly!!

😂

Dilaudid is also an effective treatment, though not yet available in the US.

The so called experts are all in league with big pharma, of course they will tell you that you need more of their drugs.

It doesn't work because methadone and any opioids doesn't matter if its short acting or long acting produces the same type of negative changes to the brain, even more so when the drug is in your system literately 24/7 in maintenance therapy. Over time you stop producing dopamine plus your not getting enough from the opioids because of neuro-adapations and such that I don't fully understand, which is why a lot of people report terrible depression and despair and loss of pleasure when taking it long term, same as with heroin.

using opioids to treat opioid addiction is about stupid and part of PHARMA capitalism

A flu? Humorously (or not), when I was in high school, I would research a drug before I would try it, to determine if a high was worth a risk. Without hardly any acute and immediate risks linked to physical health, three things emboldened themselves on the website: addiction potential, overdose potential (due to slowed breathing and CNS depression, NOT due to overclocking the heart, which I would have ruled out as dangerous), and of course, physical withdrawal upon overuse of the drug. Here is the kicker...description of W/D? FLU-LIKE symptoms. Who hasn't had the flu??
With my high school ego and arrogance, I had just been given the green light for opiates. I mean, only idiots and the weak get addicted to something, and only someone who isn't as meticulous and careful as I will be would overdose..
So, even if I like the experience and recreate it to the point of dependence, I'm sure flu-like symptoms won't stop me from putting the substance down, having had a great experience overall from it.
YEAH RIGHT.
Flu like symptoms?!? Are you serious?? No, more like if Satan could make you feel a certain way and all you have to do is give your soul to him to torment you in the future for all eternity....only just NOT the same kind of torture please!
THAT is how Withdrawal feels. I capitalize it due to sheer respect. It should be "that which is not named", due to the detrimental reverence.
Realize.....this experience is why murder, theft, prostitution, basically the destruction of the family and the bargaining of the soul is done, so that one may not Experience this!!!
I hope I gave a decent description, thanks for letting me share.

I cold-turkied fentanyl, no suboxone by choice, without external influence, whilst still having fentanyl in my possession, in my own room. Was very horrific.

Would xanax help u detox off methadone?

It's called Naloxone. Get your facts straight

The best way I've found to quit life is to get on welfare and suboxone. I'm even more miserable now than when I was homeless and begging for alcohol money.

America needs to wake up and realize they've created a very dangerous situation. Just look at ODs. When pill mills were thriving and we had more people than ever on opiates there still werent this amount of ODs. Ods have tripled of not qaudrupled since they curbed opiate prescriptions. So if that was the answer then why are people still ending up on fent and dying....

We need to decriminalize/ legalize and regulate. Make it such that if you choose to go that route your barred from paticular jobs thst involve operating heavy machinery
While also making therapy mandatory.

I quit oxycodone and that’s the WORST I’ve ever felt. Joints ached non stop, toes hurt, finger tips hurt, insomnia, restless legs, lost 14lbs in two days from going to the bathroom constantly, blurred vision, emotional chaos, very hot to very cold, zero energy or appetite, headaches vomiting, dehydration, rage and anger, severe depression, mental fog all the time and it’s more like mild pneumonia than mild flu. I’ve had pneumonia a few times and that’s the closest thing I can compare it to. On top of all that my gums ached. My withdrawals lasted about two months. Talk to former addicted people if you want the truth. Love you all and please remember GOD is with all of us and if it matters I’m with you too. Stay strong and healthy

Nonsense garbage.

Suboxone is a life saving drug, simple as that. MAT = Recovery. No one can tell me otherwise.