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210982 tn?1280983895

Suboxone and other drugs

Hello all...My friend just called me from Florida, she is on vacation. She went with her mom and her sister and all of the kids. Her sister is addicted to pain pills. I am not exactly sure what kind, but she admitted to snorting them to get the quicker high. A few weeks ago, my friend went out with her sister because they had not seen each other since Christmas because of all the drug issues. Anyway, her sister told her that she had detoxed from everything and that she was done with all that.Well I am sure you know where this is going. Today, her sister went to Walmart with one of the kids and was gone for three hours. When they got back I guess her sister went somewhere for about 1/2 hour and wheh my friend saw her again she was high as a kite. She said she was so out of it that she was unable to care for her own kids. My friend said that her sister told her she was on Suboxone. My question is this...does Suboxone make you high if you take too many? Can you mix Suboxone with other pain meds and if so what will happen? What happens if you mix Suboxone with alcohol?

My friend said that her sister and her mom got into an argument and her sister said, "Fine, me and Haley and Kelsy and Kassidy will just go to bed!" Well Kassidy isn't even on this trip. Then my friend went in to talk to her sister and her sister said Haley is about to go to bed...My friend said to her, "Haley has not even had dinner yet!" So I guess things are out of control and she called me to ask for help and info. Can you guys help me and give me any info on the questions I asked above? I don't have any other info, like I said I don't know what pain meds she was on and I don't know how many she was taking. But what happens if she mixes these drugs with Suboxone? or with alcohol? Can Suboxoxne make you high?

Thank you all for whatever you can offer!!

Denise
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Sub CAN get you high if you take enough but then there is the ceiling effect as mentioned. I've been on Sub for THREE yrs and I still get a energetic happy feeling from it. Guess everyone is different. But if you go up on your dose you certainly can get a buzz, pretty good one, but it usually causes headaches for many people at high doses. But its not like a narcotic buzz at all. Very strange drug that Sub. But you can't get high off of other narcs while on Sub, but my doc did say that if you did enough of a narc that you might be able to override the Sub blockage, depending on the dose but I am not sure about that. But mixing other drugs with Sub, such as alcohol, any of the xanax, valium, ect, barbs, ect. can effect with the Sub. And you can get very high,BUT there are several cases of people dying from mixing such drugs as Xanax, with Sub. This is true. I assume that one could die if drinking enough alcohol and Sub as what happens when narcs and other drugs are mixed is the synergetic effect. For example, of one was to say that one xanax equaled one beer, and you drank one beer, then you would have the effect of 2 beers. WRONG, you would have the effect of many beers. In the "stacking" world of pharms and alcohol, one plus one doesn't equal 2! I am a student as a substance abuse counselor and we studied this quite a bit so this is NOT fiction of what I think.
BE CAREFUL when on Sub taking other drugs. The BEST thing to do is NOT mix drugs!
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Thank you!!
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I was on sub and if i used it to get high, after the frist few days i dont think i could of. I never drank on sub so i dont know the effects of that, and if you used pain meds they would not work the sub would block it. If maybe she has any benzzo's and drank it would mess her up. Benzzo's would be things like attivan, valuim, kolonipin ect. drinking on these is risky and can be fatal. Like i said i never drank on sub i was told not too. I would do a search of her stuff also!! She may have endangered her self with whatever she took.
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I never got a high feeling from sub.  I got a calmed feeling but never high.  The way my dr explained it to me is, even if I took opiates while the sub was in my system they wouldn't work because it blocks the bodies opiate receptors.  He also told me about the ceiling effect that r2r mentioned, he said that you cannot get high on sub, though I did have some energy while taking them.  As far as taking other drugs, I don't know..  I do know that it is very dangerous to drink alcohol while taking them, It can cause serious respitory problems.  Best wishes to you, your friend and her sister.
~Jami
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I haver never tried suboxone, but from my understanding, even if she took opiates on sub, she would not feel them...As far as taking sub to get high IMO I have also only read that the first couple days people feel a bit high, but not after that, so not sure if she takes alot she would get high...I know there is a ceiling effect that I thought blocked that..

If it were me, and she would go to sleep, I would search all her luggage, purse, because she is probably not telling the truth...Good luck, it seems slow tonight but i am sure more will come and try to help you!!!
r2r
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Please, any thoughts????
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