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- Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: Why the Anger toward Suboxone?
- Topic: Does being on sub make you "not clean"?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 41868
Re: Does being on sub make you "not clean"?
Medication assisted recovery and abstinence based recovery have their own jargon... "clean" is really only a term that has a place in the abstinence based recovery lexicon and people in a MAT program really shouldn't let it bother them. In MAT we use a term like "stable" to describe a similar state
- Sun Dec 08, 2019 12:23 pm
- Forum: Misc. Suboxone Issues
- Topic: Long term difference between Suboxone and abstinence?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2382
Re: Long term difference between Suboxone and abstinence?
The other factor I feel is important is that Bupe blocks the euphoria one gets from other opiates. If I want to get high I would have to stop taking my bupe and start to go into withdrawl before I felt much of anything from a full agonist... so it gives me time to think about what I'm doing. I can't...
- Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:33 pm
- Forum: Where are you now?
- Topic: Just saying hi!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2257
Re: Just saying hi!
And thank you too Ash, didn't mean to leave you out!
- Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:03 am
- Forum: Where are you now?
- Topic: Just saying hi!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2257
Re: Just saying hi!
Thank you Jenn and Amy. I firmly believe that people like us who are in these programs and on these meds need to stick together and support one another. I'm glad the Doc created this forum and that you all are here
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:40 pm
- Forum: Where are you now?
- Topic: Just saying hi!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2257
Just saying hi!
Just wanted to let you guys know I'm doing very well right now. Started my MAT and have been on Suboxone 3 weeks with no issues. Just wanted to say thank you to the mods and regs here for all of the support and information this forum offers. You all do a very good job maintaining a welcoming atmosph...
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:32 am
- Forum: Miscellanea
- Topic: Trolls and Ghosts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1233
Re: Trolls and Ghosts
Thank's Rule. 

- Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:55 pm
- Forum: Miscellanea
- Topic: Trolls and Ghosts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1233
Trolls and Ghosts
I'm new here. I lurked for a few nights, just reading and reading. The compassionate support you all show one another is just so refreshing to see in this world in which we live. I have noticed that you incur some trolling. I guess it's par for the course and all considering the topic of the forum. ...
- Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:36 pm
- Forum: Miscellanea
- Topic: EVERYONE REPLY TO THIS AND SAY HI!
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16034
- Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:34 pm
- Forum: Freestyle
- Topic: Suboxone and Alcoholism
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2647
Re: Suboxone and Alcoholism
Treating Alcoholism with opiates was done before, back in the early 1900's I believe. They do share some neurological pathways. I guess before benzos and even barbiturates, morphine was the best thing around to treat accute alcohol detox and DT's. I guess if you could get someone detoxed from alcoho...