Opiate Withdrawal
"Was prescribed methadone for withdrawal symptoms in 1979...and never realised how absolutely addicting this drug actually is.
It can make one sleepy, and it doesn&#039;t make one &#039;high&#039;..at the beginning however it can give what one person called &#039;&#039;a garrulous sense of well being&#039;&#039;
It takes away nervousness but then one of the early symptoms of heroin/methadone withdrawal is a sense of nameless fear ..a stomach rolling anxiety.
Over 30 years later, am still on methadone..being &#039;&#039;encouraged&#039;&#039; [is there a choice?] to transfer to Buperenorphine...long term addicts who have made the switch seem to rate the buprenorphine..&#039;&#039;clearer headed&#039;&#039;.
By the way...methadone needs very careful titration in the beginning..
&#039;&#039;Start low go slow&#039;&#039; ."