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I am the wife of a pain killer addict. I am new to all this and I am so confused. My husband is now is rehab and taking something called suboxone. I am trying to figure out what suboxone is and why he needs it. Please help????

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suboxone is a pill they give someone to help them come off of painkillers they help with withdraws and cravings. its so hard to come off painkillers, it's very very painful!

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I am praying for you & your husband. My ex-husband is almost 10 years older then me-we married when I was only 20 & had 2 beautiful children together-however I was unaware for along time that he was a pill addict,as the years went by I started to notice how often he kept getting injured & going to emergency rooms then different doctors-till after about 6 years we both had a doctor appointment together & the doctor wrote him 60 vicodan within less then 48hrs they were gone & he sat in a chair like he was dying. My first thought was to call the doctor which caused me to get a beaten by him that I never have gotten or seen him do before. His behavior became worse as time went on & he started pain mangement for an injury he claimed he had gotten to his back- The doctor put him on oxycontin then that wasn't enough then morphine, I can't tell you how truly horrible it was for me when his pain medicine ran out, I was able to cover it up for the boys but they kept asking why is Daddy always sick? He also smoked almost 3 packs of cigarettes a day-I have been divorced from him for over 10 years now & he is over 50 years old & looks like he is 70-he has copd & damage to his liver due to his pain med abuse & now he truly does have pain & is terminal.My oldest son did see things that I thought he didn't & turned out the opposite of his dad & is anti-drug-however my youngest son has just turned 19 & has taken the same path as his father & I have done everything under the sun to help him but to no avail. I just can tell you first hand you have a long road ahead of you as does your husband.See what happens, he has at least made the first step which is rehab.You need to ask his doctor for a good support group for you so you can understand his condition.The problem with my ex husband was he didn't want to stop using even at the expense of our marriage & family-the pills were more important then we were & I have so much to share with you because I do feel your pain & I wish I was there to help you through it-I really hope you have a good support system(like family) that can be there for you as it is a very hard thing to deal with & understand & I pray the therapy your husband gets & with Gods help he can get clean & stay clean. I don't know about the med he is on for withdrawl but the main thing is will power & having to want to stop. I look back & other then my children I feel robbed out of what should have been the best years of my life.May God bless you both & help you & give you both strength for the days & times ahead.

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The medication is awesome! I work for a doctor that writes this medication in an outpatient clinic. Your husband will do great, Good Luck with keeping him in recovery. Na and AA are great ways for this.

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Beebutterfly I am on suboxone only a couple of days and it is helping me alot.....Your husband will actually stop craving the drug which in fact will make it possible to stop.....this is the best treatmemt out there...well one of the best I think rapid detox is a little beter but cost thousands of dollars...he is doing the right thing

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You really should be careful about who is giving you advice on suboxone because addicts just cant say enough good things about it. Suboxone is a very controversal drug for very good reason.It's has pros and cons and drug manufactors have once again lied about it as well.My daughter has been battling heroin addict and was placed on 24 months ago she has no intention of coming off it.suboxone was intended to be used at detox and in that setting the drug is good. Think about it though, they give an addict who abuses drugs a highly additictive drug prescribed by a doctor that eventually they need to be detoxed off of. Although they are monitor there are many ways to abuse it and get away with it.They can snort or shoot it up without their suboxone doctor knowing. Using an addictive drug to get off another addictive drug just dosnt make sense. Weve have been battling heroin abuse with her for 6 yrs and believe me when I say we have had just about every rotten thing under the sun happen to her and our family because of drug abuse. Then along comes suboxone which really has just prolonged a drug free life, complicated a serious situation, and really the effects of suboxone prevents her from living a full life.Not to mention what it must be doing to her brain and organs. Addicts say all these wonderful things about the drug cause they are on a drug! it was marketed to help with withdrawal and the drug companies actually first said that the detox from suboxone will actually be a more easier and less painful detox than that of there drug of choice. Now the truth is coming out from detoxes and addicts themselfs who are now saying it is equal and in some cases more difficult to come off than there drug of choice. please be careful and be aware.

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You can not ask an addict to choose between his family or his addiction, in his mind it's like asking him: Do you want to have your family but be dead inside and suffer horrible, horrible pain everyday (mentally and physically) or do you want to be "normal", have a normal life. Addiction is a decease not a choice, a need. Addicts have mental issues and are not being treated, so they treat themselves like they can.

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Obviously the place he is in knows what they are doing. I can tell you from my own personal addiction experience that you will have your OLD HUSBAND BACK IN NO TIME AS LONG AS HE STICKS TO THE SUBOXONE. I almost lost EVERYTHING because of my pain pill addiction for two+ years. And suboxone has given me my life back. It can be costly in some areas but if you need help I know of several programs and ways to cut the expense immensely. Let me know if you need any info. And one last thing, I'm sure you are upset, angry, confused etc with your husband but chances are he feels a 100 times worse about what he's put his family through. Opiate addiction is diagnosed as a medical disease now, and for good reason. If you had the feeling that this man was no longer your husband..its because he wasn't. Opiate addiction changes your mental and physiological chemistry so much that it alters you beyond recognition. Thus the medical disease. Make sure he sticks to the suboxone program and whatever else his doc recommended. It will give him his life back and you your man back the kids their dad back his mom her son back...you can't put a price on that. But anyway good luck and if you want info about financial assistance just reply back. God bless you and your family :)

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Uh, says you and all your medical research and clinical trials. Suboxone is a maintenance drug for a period of time that depends on the individual, their addiction, drug of choice, how much they use, and how long. Several factors are used in determining how much is prescribed and for how long. I know some heroin addicts that will be on it for the rest of their life and some who will be done in days time! Myself is enrolled in a two year program and since SUBOXONE IS ADDICTIVE a doctor special trained in suboxone treatment will wean you down at a unique time when its APPROPRIATE. I star weaning at 9 months. Done in two years. You want to know why? People with strong addiction or ling lasting addiction have an 85% chance of relapse from weaning earlier. So ask yourself if you want to listen to someone that believes the only way to get clean is through prayer and suboxone is just "another drug" or like you said all these self professed addicts out there offering their personal and successful experience with a medication that has given their lives back. Go preach your ignorant superstition elsewhere. I hope your daughter has enough sense to listen to the Guy in the white coat, ya know the one who completed MEDICAL SCHOOL, instead of you spewing midevil gossip.

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Suboxone (as a form of addiction maintenance), is not the answer to opiate addiction. It is exchanging one addiction for another. Narcotic addicts are addicted to narcotics. Suboxone is a narcotic. It may have some use as a detox drug in furtherance of abstinence. This is an important distinction. This is a complicated subject.

Good Luck

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spoons, you are very knowledgeable about this issue. I wish everyone was as informed as you are. I have a blog about the dangers of Suboxone. We have a lot in common. My son was on Suboxone for 3 years. Now he is dead.

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Do you have a medical license of some sort? Are you a medical doctor trained in treating addiction? If not then your opinion has no standing. As it is only that...and uneducated opinion.

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Hi. I live in Kentucky and am badly addicted to opiates, I started taking them after falling off a cliff 7 years ago and it seems as though I'm still falling down a cliff, I want off of the pain meds so bad and have tried weaning myself off and going cold turkey, the withdraw symptoms are so painful, both mentally and physically that I keep going back to them, I would love to be able to take subs and be done with them forever, but every doctor I have called that is near me is SO expensive and they don't take insurance, I can't go into rehab because I'm afraid I would lose my job. Does anyone know of any doctors who accept insurance or if they don't are affordable? I just can't afford to pay $300-$600 a month for the doctor. Any info would be greatly appreciated, I just want my life back

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Im half and half with what you're saying. An active user would say it does wonders and so do doctors and non users. You cannot just say that,because he's an addict,he is glorifying the drug,don't believe what he says. Also, try to refrain from using the "us against them" argument. (I.e. Referring to a group of people as them,or referring to yourselves as,we.) .it just shows us that you do judge active users,and for the active user ,like your daughter,probably doesn't enjoy that. Take it from someone who has a lot of experience in this field.

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even weaning properly you can still relapse... happened to my partner, weaned off over two years clean of everything for about 6 months i would say 'maybe' before hitting the codiene... and whatever other illicit drug that i don't know about or do know about but he wont tell the truth as they tned to lie all the time... I am still with my partner who is now back on treatment with suboxone.

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Once an addict always an addict.

But on a personal note your negative attitude towards his DISEASE and patronizing tone probably contribute to his dishonesty with you. Try not being so demeaning when dealing with his issue(s) and you may start coming off as more approachable.

Good luck to you and your significant other.

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Very good information!! Thanks for your post!!!!! :o)

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Suboxone literally saved my life. You go in to your docs office hurting, and he gives you your first dose. Voila !! Pain in gut, withdrawal symptoms gone in less than 5 minutes. I cried right then and there. I had been taking narcotic pain meds for at least 20 yrs. I desperately wanted to get off of them, who cares about the pain. I took suboxone for about 5 yrs. I weaned myself off and haven't had a problem since.

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I really feel that saying she can not live a full life while on suboxone is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read on this site. Someone on a proper amount of suboxone for there body wait tolerance etc can live a very full and happy life. If it is the right drug for you and your dosage is correct you will not be at all effected in any way shape or form. In fact you will feel nothing more than you would from two paracetamol except if you have had a heroin or morphine addiction you won't be withdrawing. I really hope your daughter recovers but I think you need to let that craving for the needle of whatever her means of administering was dissapate and in a few months, years or whenever she is ready she can be weaned from the suboxone too. I know I'm talking from experience and have come out the other side very happy that I did it and that it worked.

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