Morphine Sulfate ER

My husband is addicted to Morphine he is taking Morphine Sulfate Extended Release 60 mg tablets. He was melting them down and injecting with a needle. He has been clean for 10 days.

Any one know anything specific about this? What other drugs are similar to this? Anything you may know...

[ochooked]

If he has been clean for 10 days he is probably near the end of the detox and just needs to stay strong now.  The next phase is the mental one and he will need you to help encourage him.   Is he still using any other opiates?   It is really wonderful if he did not use in 10 days ---  I can't imagine what he!! he went through during that 10 days but he needs to be congratulated.   I would find him an NA or AA meeting and get him to it - even if you have to drive him.  What an accomplishment.  All the best.   Oh, keep reading the other posts and have him read them.  It helps

[wannabefree330]

WOW!! that is fantastic that he has been able to stay clean.  Unbelievable.  You do need to tell him how proud you are, and how proud we addicts are.  We know first hand how difficult it is.  

Morphine is an opiate it is a natural opiate.  There are also synthetic opiates (man made).  Those are demerol, dilaudid, fentanyl, oxycodone (percocet), hydrocodone (vicoden,lortab, norco),codeine, oxycontin etc.  They all work the same way in the brain.  They attach to pain receptors in the brain and give you a euphoric high.  Almost as good as an orgasm (sorry), but this high lasts for several hours (at first).  After while, your body needs more and more to reach the same euphoric level.  And after so long, it does nothing for you, no matter how much you take.  When you stop,your body gets really REALLY pisssed off at you.  Headache, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, no appetite, muscle aches, restless legs, hot and cold flashes with sweating, NO energy at all, anxiety, panic, hopelessness, despair.....this lasts about7-10 days.  Then,its just the low energy, depression, and fear of how you are going to get through life w/o your drug.
Definitely find him an NA (narcotics anonymous) or HA(heroin anonymous) meeting.  There will be people who can relate to him, and he will hear their stories and in turn hear alot of similarities about himself.  He will meet people and find resources to stay clean.

[sna103079]

Well I found out last night that he has been off the morphine for 10 days (11 days today)  but was taking suboxone in small doses until 2 days ago. Should I be upset that he didn't tell me about the suboxone? He had the hot/cold sweats and twitched all night. He woke up this morning and barely had the energy to leave the house.

I'm terrified that he will re-lapse. Should I call him today and check on him and encourage him or should I back off and let him make his own decisions/actions? Does anyone have any recommendations on what you would want your loved ones to do for you in this stage of getting clean?

[Fergman]

hey, so it's to here that you've jumped...........oh!!!!!! the morphine for me was the background drug, and the roxi's and percs were for breakthrough pain but they were really for me to get high off the springboard of morphine.  And how I got!  I tried to melt the extended release, but I don't use needles and snorting it doesn't get a person off.  The only thing with the suboxone is that he is still self-prescribing his therapy.  Maybe he really wants it to change and just made an independent decision.  I hope for you that this is so.
My tip to you:  leave him alone.........he got himself here, let him get himself out.  You'll feel when a real change does or doesn't come.