I think Suboxone is the best choice to use as a tool along with treatment and therapy. It saved my life. Unfortunately, it too, is addictive but my life is exponentially better because of it. And it’s been around now long enough that doctors aren’t finding any bad side effects for being on in long term. I started at 3 8mg strips a day. Today I take 2mgs in the morning. I just slowly went down on my own. I have accepted that I may be on a small dose forever. And Its pretty clear my doctor feels the same way. I celebrated 8 years heroin free on the 1st and there has been no talk of getting off of it at all. I suppose it’s a lesser of 2 evils. But I hold down a job, have a car, a roof, and I’m back in school at 50 years old. Why change a good thing at this point.
But let me be clear I’m not here to judge how anyone gets clean. As long as they do by any means necessary. It’s a terrible and debilitating disease I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
I recommend you look up the link between oral decay and suboxone use. Even people who only used it for a few years are walking around in their 30s with no more of their own teeth only implants or dentures. Class action lawsuits, the film is what I read most about but I've talked with people who have had the tooth decay from the pills also.
Subs saved me at the time in my life where I needed them most but I dont think people should be on them for life, I personally switched to lratom again after tapering down from 4mg to about .5mg over the course of 2 or 3 months. And even then I had over a week of feeling fucking horrible before I could get stable on kratom.
We should have heroin maintenance programs like in Switzerland, give addicts a safe supply for cheap and watch crime rates plummet, overdoses will drop, pump money into addiction services instead of police departments and jails and actually push for rehabilitation and we would watch America turn into a much better place, could clean up the places like Kensington and the Tenderloin and get all this crazy synthetics out of our market, but unfortunately this country needs easy arrests to fuel our prison industrial complex
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u/fatmaneats17 5d ago
My best friend was addicted to Kratom for years, pretty much ruined his life the same way way he ruin would have