night_shade
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I've had some discussion with other DB'ers about this topic.
As several people have posted about their doctors writing scripts for them to detox off of other opiates using methadone, I thought it prudent to post the Federal Regulations governing methadone detoxification.
Please note that these are FEDERAL regulations and STATE laws may impose more restrictions.
Federal Methadone Regulations
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voyager
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Reged: 04/17/03
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Loc: United States Virgin Islands
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My suggestion is that your best bet is to stay off of methadone!!!! That stuff is MURDER To get off of.
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Trampy
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Thanks for posting the link. I didn't realize how much they had changed things in 2001.
Trampy
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flea
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Weird, so many people have said that getting off of methadone is far worse than anything they were on before. I for one did not feel that it was all that difficult to get off of methadone.
Of course now that I look back, i realize that only after a few months of being off of methadone, my pain doctor started me again on the fetynal patch (I think that was the name) and then in 2 more months I was taken off of that, and then put on Oxycontin.
However, I did go off of methadone the same way I think that most people do. I slowly began lowering my dose by 5mg each month. Then my doctor raised that to 10 mg a month, until I was all the way off. Relatively painless I must say.
I mean of course I had some side effects, but it was NOTHING like what I had when I dumped all of my pain meds down the toilet. That was the most miserable I have ever been. Since I had been the one that flushed them, I had really no other option other than living through the hell of going cold turkey.
Oh Goodness, I would not wish that on even my worst enemy. I swear i felt as though i was close to death. I could not have imagined that anybody could survive for too long feeling the way that I did for those 5 LONG days.
Actually, now that I think of it i am slightly annoyed that I was put back on such a strong pain medication such as fetynal, so soon after finally being completly free of all those toxins.
Anyway, sorry that i went a bit off subject there, I just thought it was worth sharing my experience with Methadone withdrawl. Maybe I did not go through everything that others have been through with methadone and the wicked withdrawls it can put you through, because I was going down by only 5mg each month, and then only 10mg each month. I was the one who decided to do it like that, so I am not even sure if this is how it was supposed to be done.
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caitlin023
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Reged: 11/30/03
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I have done other stronger opiates long term, and found that methadone was not all that hard to get off of. But I think it's because everyone's body is different and everyone reacts differently to different drugs. If you do use opiates though I think methadone is DEFINATELY the way to go. Much more cost effective seeing as how methadone seems to last forever (at least one whole day if not more.)
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