Opioid Addiction PSA

Public Service Announcement from The National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine (Suboxone) Treatment.

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• opioid
• heroin
• addiction
• treatment
• buprenorphine
• suboxone
• percocet
• oxycontin

[willyboxc]

I used 80mg-160+ (up to 240mg) of oxycontin a day, or K4 hydromorphone-dilaudid's.. at first i was just taking oxy by snorting it, once i started to inject the drug though things went down hill fast, i started injecting k4's but prefered oxys, it got bad so fast in only 4 months i was stealing and withdraws were bad, but i got on suboxone and have been clean 5 months!

[JakeG1976]

Suboxone won't make you want to quit only allow someone to quit if they want to. Counseling is still an important component. Withdrawal is actually symptoms of brain alterations caused by chronic drug taking. Suboxone suppresses these symptoms, of course, if you stop taking it, the symptoms will reemerge. Suboxone is not causing the withdrawal, it is from the brain changes that existed before you ever took the sub. After years of addiction it was the only thing that allowed me to stop.

Jake

[moseseseseses]

The problem is not with the drug at all. There is a positive good use for Oxycontin, and Morphine, and Diacetylmorphine, and Codeine , and Diluadid, and Demerol, and Hydrocodone, and all other opiates. Some people will have to become terminally ill with cancer to see this truth. People who suffer back pain, and kidney stones, and children who are burned in house fires, and people who have arms pulled off their bodies in car wrecks need narcotics for some quality of life.

[willyboxc]

@opiateHELP Wow haha its funny reading something like that, that i had wrote 3 years ago... i struggled with that addiction to suboxone for 2 years... and i never had any clean time or recovery!! I finally 9 months ago got into the program after a long hard road of trying to do it on my own NA (Narcotics Anonymous) is the only thing that got me clean!! Any mind or mood altering chemical! Suboxone is not a quick fix... i hope people find that out.. because it was hard! NA IS AWESOME THOUGH!

[opiateHELP]

@falloftroy00 You had no w/d's when you quit suboxone? How long were you taking it? You are the first person I've ever heard of not having w/d's when stopping suboxone... Please share how you achieved this. Thanks!

[opiateHELP]

@gothenburgmark buprenorphine is an opioid; hence why it takes away opioid w/d's. If people must use it, it should only be used for 10 days tops! If used longer then 10 days, the w/d's from buprenorphine will last 10 times longer then oxy or heroin w/d's. It's like giving a alcoholic beer to help with whiskey w/d's.

[opiateHELP]

@JakeG1976 How did you go about stopping the suboxone and getting through the 40 days+ W/D's? Congrats on getting clean! That's awesome! The reason you don't feel opioid w/d's while taking suboxone is becasue suboxone is an opioid. Go figure, huh?

[opiateHELP]

@willyboxc Congrats on stopping oxy! However suboxone was made to be taken for 10 days tops, to help with SEVERE withdrawals. I hope you didn't mean you have been taking suboxone for 5 months... I did that and the W/D's were literally 10 times worse. Taking suboxone is just as bad as taking oxy if done everyday; it should only be taken for 10 days tops! Doctors and pharma companies won't tell you this; the only reason why that I can come up with is, money! Its a shame.

[twispsalterego]

fellow addicts take heed in yr recovery: buprenorphine/suboxone is WORSE than methadone! read all you can before you buy into the hype!

[MrCash9002]

idk why doctors give out medication which they know the user can or may be addicted to make them addicts someone can have a broken leg give them pain killers they may take more than one theres a big chance theyll be an addict who is the main problem the ones addicted or the ones who supply these opiods make the world safer.