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methodone or suboxone

i have been addicted to opiates for 6 years now and for the last 2 years now have been taking 80 mg methodone methodone once a day at the same time every day but now my dealer is runnin out    i now have an appt with a suboxone  doctor     should i get prescribed that or should i ask him for methodone  instead since i already have methodone doses under controll and dont cheat
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Excellent point Weaver, have you formed your aftercare and sobriety support systems?
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Depends on how long you think you will be on it. Over the years, I ended up so strung out on methadone, I had to use subs to get off. It almost killed me. Above is right, subs are a much clearer minded approach. I couldn't taper down to 30mg methadone, so my doctor switched me to faster acting opiates for 4 days and then I used the sub. Methadone worked for a couple years, but stopped working after a while. If I could do over, I would have never gone on methadone, and used sub as a maintenance to form my aftercare and sobriety support system.
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also u cant just take sub its a whole program therepy, meetings, group changing ur whole lifestyle iv been on sub for 5 months and my whole life is diffrent
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imo sub is better then meth however u need to b i belive under 30 mgs of meth to induce sub. sub makes u more clear minded then meth and is harder to abuse.
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