News of Personal Approaches

After having a pain pill addiction for 7 years I decided to go on Suboxone when my daughter was born. While I've been on Suboxone for 7 years and I stopped after I wean myself down to .5 mg of strips it's been 13 days and my body aches and hurts and I have no energy please direct me into the right direction for some help I know this is the best form. And if ...

Some of you might recall that I went on 100 mg Tramadol/day as sort of a maintenance/antidepressant treatment almost 20 months ago after stopping a trial of 1mg Suboxone/day for depression.

(For those who don't know me, I was on Suboxone maintenance- up to 16 mg/day- for 3 years after an 8 year opioid addiction. I went off in 2013).

I should also throw in that during my active addiction Tramadol was a drug I ...

This morning when I got my son off to school, after listening to a fellow recovering addict give pointers about changes that need to be made in ones life to fully recover I decided to try some focused meditation. Nothing too drastic, I was just focusing on my breathing and how I was feeling and once I got aware of how I felt, it was very disturbing. I felt uncomfortable, and almost miserable the more ...

Hey everyone!

I have been a heroin addict for 10 years (from 15-25) and I am now 9 months sober which is the longest I have gotten in the entire 10 years I have an addict.

Everyone is always pushing rehab and lots and lots of meetings. I have tried out patient, nope continued to use the entire time and I have tried to go to meetings and never left there feeling better only worse ...

I used pain killers for serveral years, and I used subutek and suboxone to come off of them. Now it's been about 3 years of using about 2 mg of subutek a day. I've since tapered to probably 0.5 mg a day and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I split the half a mg into two parts and do a morning dose and an evening dose. There will be ...

Hello all, I had a question , my sub doctor told me that when you take a whole strip you pretty much waste half of it , I take the 8/2 twice a day. Anyways he said that by cutting the strip in half, letting it fully dissolve and wait fifteen minutes before applying the other half. It seems to make perfect sense and I have noticed a difference by doing so. Has anyone else ...

Hello every body! I just created a membership to this website. And was amazed at all of the support and help all of the members give to others who are struggling to kick this powerful drug. I will start with a little back ground information about how I got to where I am.. (Will try to keep it as short as possible).
Started using opiates when I was 16. Started with oxy, progressed into herion. ...

Does anyone have any tips about dosing that you would like to share?

From day 1 until this morning it's been tough to even climb stairs. no energy no motivation no strength.for the most part I have been completely positive. I haven't gone to work I took time off to do this. I started in the middle of a work week, so that I would have an entire following week also. The last three or four nights hace been almost completely sleepless nights, tossing and turning, restless legs, ...

Okay. So just to start this off with a bit of history...

I was using oxy for about 1.5 years. Started taking 5mg a day to 30-100mg a day. Usually closer to 30mg, but on weekends, sometimes I'd hit about 100mg.

Also, I was dependent on Klonopin and was taking 4-7mg a day for about 4 years. Well, my doctor stopped my prescription and said I had to go to a psychiatrist for it. I ...