How to overcome Bupronorphine (Temgesic) addiction?
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Best of luck in your[or whomever's addicted] recovery. It's a long road find support.
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This is a favorite question of mine as I struggled with it for years before finally successfully quitting.\nI have a few suggestions of what not to do to start with....\n1. Do not get a patch or gum program. All that does is continue the addiction to nicotine. You will then be addicted to the gum or patch. How is that progress? It is just another way for big business to keep you hooked, it does not work. Trust me, I speak from experience.\n2. Do not have an "emergency" pack of cigarettes, just in case. If you leave the option open you will find a reason to smoke them.\n3. Stay away from road trips and smoky bars just for the first few weeks. It will get easier.\n\nNow things that did work for me....\n1. Cold Turkey. I know it hurts like hell but its like taking off a band-aid. The pain is shorter than a lifetime of addiction. \n2. Pick a quit date and taper off as you get closer. Try to get down to about three cigarettes or less a day. It makes it much easier when you quit if you have practice putting  off your addiction.\n3. Just like alcoholics, take it one day at a time. When I first quit is was one hour at a time. I thought to myself " I just have to make it one hour, then I will smoke" of course I thought the same thing every hour so I never actually smoked. Pretty soon I could set my goal to be a whole day, "I will smoke tomorrow" Those small goals got me through the torture of those first couple weeks. If you mess up, don't give in and buy a pack. Start over re-commit to improving your life and health every day no matter what you did yesterday. \n4. Once you gate past the first week the majority of the physical addiction has begun to pass. You will still obsess rather than crave. On obsession lasts about 90seconds. Sometimes they line up a bunch in a row, but it is still only 90 seconds. So when you start to obsess and really want a smoke, look at watch and decide, 90 seconds of pain or the rest of my life? Then count to 90, you may find it has passed. However if you break down and smoke you will have to go through the hard physiacl withdrawal time again. The cravings are harder. See the difference between a craving and an obsession?\n\nAll I thought about was how much I wanted a cigarette for what felt like years. It was the hardest substance I have ever had to quit, and I am an ex junkie! I had a hard time holding up my end of conversations because I was so distracted my the obsession. IT WAS WORTH IT! I pissed off a lot of people while I went through my rage period, it is normal. Anyone who knows you will be glad you are doing such an important thing for yourself, they will forgive your anger. Just keep thinking of the big picture, temporary misery for freedom from addiction. It will get easier.....
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try Xanax or Valium but only take it when you absolutely have to and take the lowest dose possible because they both can be addictive if misused
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Tough Qustion.  How bad do you want to be healthy? How motivated are you? Get high on life and go out with friends, start exercising and watch your bod change! Just do something else you have the spark for.  You can also get "regular" pain relievers that aren't addictive!\n\nGood luck!
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I've been battling this addiction for years myself.  It is not an easy thing to kick! But coming from someone who's been there let me offer a few suggestions:\n\n1.  Support, don't condemn. What I mean is realize he is acting on very normal impulses, but seeking relief in unhealthy ways. If you make him feel guilty about it, it'll only compound the problem.\n2.  Get him to agree to be held accountable for his actions.  If you are his wife/partner, encourage him to talk to you or someone else he trusts whenever he feels he cannot resist the temptation.\n3.  Get him to seek spiritual help.  I am a born again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.  It's only by His strength I can and will overcome this addiction!\n4.  Encourage him to take it a day at a time (a minute at a time if necessary).\n5.  If he stumbles, encourage him to confess it, ask forgiveness from God, and get back on the wagon (knowing he's been forgiven).\n6.  NEVER give up on him! And do your best not to allow him to give up on himself.\n\nThere may come a point where there's nothing more that you can do for this man (save pray for him).  If that time comes, don't be afraid to leave him in God's capable, loving hands.  You can't heal him, but God is eager and well able to do just that! I, on my part will endeavor to pray for you and your friend as I'm reminded to do so.  If I can help you further, drop me an email.
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What I do is try to focus on the positive, develop a gratitude attitude, and reach out to others.\n~~~\nI've heard of a concept called the love basket, and you have to do things to fill others' baskets, and they do things to fill your basket. If you don't help out others, you won't get much yourself. The trick is that you can't do something for someone in order that they will do something for you (or to get them to do it). But the more you do for others, the more they will want to do for you.\n~~~\nIf there is a reason for your sadness, than you can figure out (maybe with help from friends or a professional) how to deal with it and move on. If it's just a feeling that doesn't go away, then maybe it's clinical or chemical. Just don't try to self-diagnose or self-treat with drugs, alcohol, or other addictions. \nBest of luck!
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Temperance is the best way I can summarize it. I am very similar in nature when I do something I do it with everything I've got. My new addiction is Y!A  Find 2 or 3 things you like and divide your time equally among them.  You will have to use some restraint.  In behavior Modification there is this technique called interrupt and redirect.  For instance, if it is sexual thoughts that are bothering u today stop! think something different like I wonder if I h ave any new answers to my Yahoo questions?\nRe program your thought processes!\n\n:D Good Luck!
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This problem has more than one dimension. It is a spiritual as well as a physical problem. The fact that you are reaching out to get help is encouraging. If your situation was hopeless or near hopeless you would be asking where you could score instead of how you can stop relapseing.\n\nDefinitely get into a drug treatment problem. The physical part of your problem demands a physical solution. This is most likely the strongest addiction you could have. In some cases a sudden withdrawal from drugs is in and of itself life threatening. This is not to say you should hurry out and get more cocaine. The problems with that approach are that it is not legal and there is no way to monitor the dose.You must get help and stop immediately because the purity and strength of what you are taking cannot be easily determined. \n\nIn no way does does addressing the physical aspect of the problem indicate you are spiritually weak . God is interested in results and there are effective treatments available.  \n\nMake your request known to God (even though He already knows) and then expect positive results. He is certainly willing and you are willing. What a powerful combination but you must not be double minded. Believe immediately that you have received your request and then don't waver. Wavering is when the trouble begins. \n\nGod bless you . You can see that there are people all over the place that are concerned. You have my prayers.
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I am a recovering addict myself, and willing to share my story if it would help. I have now been clean for 4 months and have NO desire to go back to where I have been. I had been on drugs(meth, coke, crack,pot, pills, etc.), for 15 years too. Let me know how to contact you and I would be glad to talk to you about my experiences with drugs and recovery. I can totally relate!
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I've been a narcotic addict for 36 years, so I hope this helps, since I speak from experience.  \n\nValium works differently for different people as far as addiction, but, if you are taking it every day, plan on having one H*ll of a time coming off.  I've seen friends get hooked in a week and have seen some that it takes a month of daily use. It also depends on what mgs. you're taking, your weight, your body composition -- a whole lot of things are involved in determining how long you can use them without getting hooked. \n\nAnyway you look at it, your messing up your nervous system by slowing/calming it down. If you suffer from anxiety to begin with, you are going to be super anxious when you stop.  There is the lack of sleep and grouchiness too.  Some people have psychotic reactions to coming off any kind of tranqs.  My counselors and doctors have told me it can take up to five years to get your system back to where it was before you started taking them.  \n\nJUST STAY AWAY FROM XANAX cause they will kick your butt in a couple days.  \n\nGood luck, and really try not to take those V's on a regular basis -- I know how good they make us feel and its hard not to enjoy them.  Trust me, like I said, I speak from a long period of experience!
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You stop. Just stop. Stop using. Period.\n\nYou'll probably crash for awhile and when you wake up, don't use anymore. Disassociate from people who helped you use, sold to you, or used with you. If you can, move to another place/town/state, change your cellphone. If you have no ties to that world to lure you back in, its less likely you'll slip.\n\nIf you need additional support, look into Narcotics Anon or a meth users support group in your area.
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its your comfort food.  try acupuncture and get a addiction treatment its 5 needles in each ear.
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never did herion but got some what addicted to methadone-methadose in 10mg pill form. started with 1 and worked my way up to 3 pills a day then switched back and forth between that and fentyanal patches 2-100mg patches for a 3 day period. i would cut back little by little every day. try to get by without getting sick or "HIGH". I was able to quit cold turkey with family help and disassociation w/drug friends
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I treated addicts for many years.  Pot is the number one drug people seek treatment for addiction for.\n\nYou need to seek treatment.  That's key.  Your best bet is to seek treatment from a doctorate level psychologist who specializes in addiction.\n\nYou should seriously consider mysteriously disappearing from your current social group.  The number one problem with addicts trying to quit is the people who hang around them either unconciously or (more usually consciously) sabotage their attempt to treat their addiction.  No addict wants to hear this but the people around you probably are not nice people and they want to keep you addicted for sinister reasons.  They will lie, extort, manipulate and otherwise coerce you to keep you addicted.  I cannot tell you the number of people who are shocked to find this out about the people they call friends.  A great many people feel rightly betrayed by what these people do when they tell them they are quitting.  Likely, this is going on in your life right now but you don't know it.  Understand that everyone else who is an addict has the same reaction.  Well, that's not me, not my friends (or not my lover or spouse).  When they discover differently...well, it hurts.  It hurts ALOT.  But, it's something you must face if you want to be free of drugs.\n\nThe best way to handle this is to disappear and start fresh somewhere else.  Have a new rule in your life....no drug users allowed.  Also, anyone who in any way evidences a pro-drug mentality must be kept out of your life.  I can't emphasize this enough.  This is probably the number one issue keeping you addicted.\n\nIn choosing a new place to live, find the lowest crime rate area in a place where mostly conservative people live.  You want to make it next to impossible to find a drug source or people who have pro-drug sentiments.
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I battled drug and alcohol addiction.  Not heroin, but addictions nonetheless.  I knew that the only way I was going to get off the merry-go-round was to remove myself from everything and everyone I knew.  I chose to go commercial fishing in Alaska.  I was at sea for 6-8 weeks at a time and the only time we docked, it was to offload and use the phone at the end of the dock.  That's all the further away I got from the boat.  Airfare, room, board, all company-paid.  I stayed up for 8 mos, amassing a nice, big bank account.  When I got home, I couldn't easily adapt to being back on land so left again 5 weeks later.  A new addiction, fishing.  And I never picked up the old ones again.  How this can help your daughter is:  she gains new perspective, opens her life to alternate ways of living, she'll work herself to exhaustion, she'll earn a great deal of money and she will be on a "dry boat".  No booze, no drugs, period.\n\nIt really, really worked for me.  I made different friends and met the man I would marry (these 15 years later, we are still).  \n\nOnce she understands that her destiny can be shifted by different decisions she makes, perhaps she'll be willing to harness her own power to move into her own future.  Her methadone is as much a crutch as her heroin was, though, admittedly, a better crutch.  At the end of the day though, a crutch is still the thing we lean on when we either cannot or will not walk on our own two feet.  \n\nAs a mother, I ache for you.  And I wish you all the peace and luck with your daughter.
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You have to slowly reduce your dose. If you are on 40 mg.'s you take 40 for 2 days, 35 for 2 days, 30 for 2 days and on down until you get down to 5 milligrams. The thing is you will need something else for pain, non-narcotic otherwise it will not work.\nThe other choice is switching over to Subutex or Buprenorphine. I am taking a college class on this right now and constipation is a large problem for those on maintenance doses of any narcotic.\n\nGood luck. Mylanta Supreme works well to help with constipation even though it is a heartburn remedy. 2 tablespoons at bedtime.
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Ultram + valum or some other benzo, ultram helps a lot. If you are getting sick you are addicted but you probably know that by now, and if you are going through them to fast then one of 2 things. Either you need a new dr who will perscribe you what you need cuz your tolerance has increased a lot, or you are, yes, i will say it, taking to much medicine. Methadone helps too if you can get some of that and Butalnorpine, but imo that doesnt help as much. Best possible solution is methadone but kinda rough to get unless you know any who goes to a clinic. Being sick, even off pain pills is no fun. I'd call your doctor, a different one maybe complain of some sort of moderate pain that tylenol advil isnt helping and say you dont want to take narcotics because  you dont want to become adicted but is there anything else you can take? and get some ultram to last you through, it wont fix ur sickness but it will take the edge off, Ultram works like an opiate but isnt an opiate.. pretty confusing actually.. but that's what I would do if ya dont think you can get more pain pills right now.