Does Subutex Really Do The Trick?
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Ive been using opiates for a few years now and im just gettin sick and tired of the bull thats involved with it. I cop my pills illegally and its only a matter of time before something happens. My tolerance levels are threw the roof and im looking to use subutex to get threw the day. I dont even get high anymore unless i do an excessive amount. Im looking into subutex so i can have energy to work. I work a very physically demanding job and unless i am on opiates i have no drive to get things done when i am working. My question is does subutex give you that push to get threw the day?

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Hi, I have been on Suboxone for about 2 years. I just wanted to come off it , and i have come down from 12 mg to 1mg per day in the advised way (by my d&a psychiatrist). I have also started to come off mobeclemide (Aurorix), an older anti-depressant off my own bat (went down to 150 mg from 300mg). I started crying again big time, could not even read a sad story in a newspaper etc. I have had major, major losses (loss of marriage, death of my son, death of my father, my mother suffering horrendous brain damage from a stroke 3 weeks before my father's death etc, etc). I have worked so hard to rebuild my life, but I do not want to depend on drugs. They seem to blunt the grieving process, which is now obviously evident. I also have an impulsive form of ADD, which I take dex. for. I definitely calms me, makes me pause, and at the same time I am much more alert, but yeh, it is another artificial mood regulator. I am torn between a genetic predisposition, and what has happened re loss. I just don't know. I do have a medical/health background and know exactly what I am taking + effects, side effects etc, but a big part of me wants to give it all the flick, breakdown and bawl for however long it takes.

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YES! Once you are good and on the subutex/suboxone you will have more energy than you would have in the first place. It stabilizes you so well and gets you where you need to be. BUT YES!!! IT REALLY DOES GIVE LOTS OF ENERGY! Caffeine helps. smoking green helps too. Most people respond best to one or two 8mg pills a day. I have been on 4xday for 5 years but really have weaned down to a half a day. So I just stockpile my subs up for when I need them most. I find that a half of one does the same as two or three whole ones due to the ceiling effect buprenorphine has. Well, hope this helps.

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Subutex contains the active ingredient Buprenorphine, which is an opiate, so it does prevent the normal withdrawals that one would experience when stopping the other drugs of choice.

However, it has to be started at the proper dose, to meet the equivalent of the other medications you were taking, to prevent the withdrawals and then very slowly tapered to allow you to get off of them.

That is why it is most effectively used under a doctor's supervision, they know how to calculate the proper amount you should use and how slow the taper schedule needs to be.

It has helped many people to become drug free, but the tapering has, sometimes, taken them as long as 2 years.

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