Suboxone Talk Zone the Movie


 

Suboxone Talk Zone The Movie – Recovering psychiatrist Jeffrey T Junig MD PhD discusses opiate dependence treatment options including Suboxone. He is known as SuboxDoc at the blog Suboxone…

 

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22 Responses to Suboxone Talk Zone the Movie

  • singinglady48 says:

    WOW I agree with you 100% well said? well said Dr Jeff Your understanding is amazing. Clearly youv’e been there. I love you and bless you I am an RN and without Suboxone I would have accidentally OD’d , which I had done before. I honor you and THANK YOU for your clarity and wisdom, born, I’m sure, from your own suffering!

  • Alex frazier says:

    I was using 16 mg a day and I decided to quit (no diminution ) I took my last 16 mg the day before I went to rehab. I stayed 2 weeks and I just got out today, the first week was perfect, I was sleeping 16 hours a day, the second week I started to feel hyper emotional and I’m having trouble sleeping. I will laugh my ass off to tears but if something upsets me, I’ll go in to a rage. right now my? legs are restless and I can’t sleep, I’ll try to hang in there for an other week and see how things go.

  • anthony thompson says:

    im an addict of pain pills. it started when i got toxic shock syndrome 6 years ago… the doctors kept me dosed up in dahladid, morphine and? demeral. now im on percacet 30mg. i take, snort 3 to 4 a day now. ive tried the detoxing method but im way beyond that now.the only help women get in my town is to sit in jail and detox. cant handle that. so now im at a lose for answers. is there anyway to get ahold of you? my e-mail is [email protected]. thank you.

  • anphelps27 says:

    Can you smoke weed while weaning off suboxone??

  • waltzingpeter says:

    Hi there I’m on 1 mg buprenorphine daily for maintainance and since I? take it early in the morning i’m feeling really unpleasant in the evening, is it not enough for my tolerance?

  • waltzingpeter says:

    Hi there I’m on 1 mg buprenorphine daily for maintainance and since I take? it early in the morning i’m feeling really unpleasant in the evening, is it not enough for my tolerance?

  • ohpineapples says:

    Very, very good viedo Dr. God Bless you for you taking your time to talk to us & help us all. I think they should pay you for what you do here on youtube as you deserve it! Eveytime I see one of your videos I get more encouraged to stay clean. I thought it was “fun” while taking pain pills, but it’s? nothing as fun as being Clean : ) Clean is great! Life is Better without drugs. God Bless You!

  • Jeffrey Junig says:

    A very complicated question– detoxing from methadone using buprenorphine. The bottom line is that there is no free lunch– lowering tolerance and withdrawal MUST go together, as the process is one and the same in the brain. Any use of bupe will only change the PATTERN of the misery over a period fo time– it will not? reduce the overall level of misery. The same has been shown in studies with rapid detox– the part that you ‘sleep through’ is a small fraction of the total experience of w/d.

  • T Berger says:

    I have a friend out here in Seattle where I live? who has been a serious heroin addict for many years, and he is currently on subs, and it really seems like it’s working for him pretty well, so hopefully he won’t relapse. I have my own problems with xanax addiction. Not abuse of it, but 8 years addicted. IMPOSSIBLE to get off, especially for someone like myself with limited means, no $ for rehab

  • Jeffrey Junig says:

    I used to be anti-methadone but after seeing the destruction from opiate addiction for so many years, I endorse ANYTHING that keeps people alive. And I will never see either as handcuffs– it is OPIATE ADDICTION that is the handcuffs, and methadone or buprenorphine are ways to reduce the misery caused by the handcuffs. That is the mistake I see people make who hate bupe– their ADDICTION is their permanent problem. But people need something? to blame other then blaming their own mistakes.

  • T Berger says:

    I’m not endorsing? methadone, I’m just saying that to be fair, when listening to your video here, it’s almost like you were saying that their weren’t any other options until subs. People didn’t have to hit a bottom to take methadone. They call methadone liquid handcuffs, but I have a feeling that subs will handcuff people as well.

  • Jeffrey Junig says:

    Oops– partially guilty! Actually, methadone treatment was legalized as an exception to the Harrison Act in 1972. Before then, using it to treat addiction was illegal– at least in the US, as it was for all opiate agonists. DATA 2000 for buprenorphine (actually for any schedule III opiate) was the second exception? to the Harrison Act. But you are correct– I shouldn’t have disregarded it… although it will always have ‘second class’ status because of the way it started i.e. inner cities.

  • T Berger says:

    Jeff, you say that before subs, their was nothing really available, duh, what about methadone? It’s been around for like 70 years?

  • SpiritofVersaille says:

    hey man, please tell me how things went. i felt the same way and im 5 days? off after 1.4yrs on subox, before that methadone, before that heroin.

  • allissongaffney says:

    Hey i know that feeling. Opiates in general give you a false happiness, throwing your chemical balances off. When you start the journey of detoxing, or quitting your happiness and other emotions will flip flop. Like being bipolar. The best thing you can do is talk to your dr, or psychiatrist. Tell them exactly what you feel. You? came very far to throw in the towel. God bless, and good luck

  • Jeffrey Junig says:

    I would consider that your depression is unrelated to Suboxone– there are some people using it ‘off label’ for depression (not something I? recommend, but you can read about it on my blog). If anything, it seems to elevate mood a bit. I would suggest staying on Suboxone so you don’t have to worry about relapse, and treat your addiction properly with an SSRI.

  • blaisetheman says:

    ive been using? suboxone for 9 months and in the last 4 ive been so incredibly depressed i want to to be off suboxone very soon, but i’m very afraid ill make it 6 months and ruin everything. im currently in law school and know a relapse would ruin everything

  • sisterwin2 says:

    Just fyi for you and other addicts. Yes its illegal in the USA but not in Canada, Mexico UK Caribbean In fact only ilegal in USA, Belgium and I think Sweeden. So no need to put oneself in jeparody of the law just step over the boader. I do? thank you for your time in teaching those about addiction. I just dont agree that one can not survive without replacement

  • Jeffrey Junig says:

    I wish you the best as well. I have come to see ‘staying clean’ as either using meetings to induce and hold a ‘fake personality’ or using buprenorphine to induce and maintain ‘fake neurochemistry’… I tend to see the addicted person as a ‘permanent problem’ that needs a long-term solution. Ibogaine is a schedule I’, meaning that even possession can result in years in? prison… so I doubt I will ever get to try it! But if it works for you, I have no problem with that. Addiction stinks!

  • sisterwin2 says:

    I do understand why you would not put your own personal health care out there for the public…. but just wondering how anyone would stop thier addiction from raising it ugly head….. the human spirit can not be held down if one seeks healing. Just as you stay away from that next hit of dope, I pray that I do. I feel pretty confident that I will not relapse as you must feel confident w/o a opiate to? satisfy my receptors.

  • Jeffrey Junig says:

    Ibogaine research: An ibogaine research project by the National Institute on Drug Abuse was abandoned in 1995, citing other reports that suggested a risk of brain damage with extremely high doses and fatal heart arrhythmia in patients having a history of health problems, as well as inadequate funding for ibogaine development within their budget. However, NIDA funding for ibogaine research continues in indirect grants? often cited in peer-reviewed ibogaine publications.

  • Jeffrey Junig says:

    I never speak of my current health care, given the profile that I am developing, the people who for some? reason love to take shots at me, and my own privacy. My question for you was rhetorical, in response to your ibogaine comments. There is good info about Ibogaine on Wikipedia that I recommend for others; one concern is that the potency is hard to know, given that the chemical is destroyed in the presence of oxygen. See the next comment as well:

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