Is 3-5 days in methadone clinic enough ???

[Zenstate8]

Wondering if 3-5 day methadone mmt at 30 mg would squash heroin withdrawals? My friend is struggling with a heroin problem, smoking .25-.5 g daily for 2 months.. I don't know how to help but my friend has been asking me advice and scared to stay in mmt for more than 5 days in fear of addiction to methadone but seems to be very committed quitting heroin. My friend has been on 30 mg methadone 2 days and experiencing very mild discomfort. They were told to be expected to be in mmt for more than a few weeks. Any advice I can pass along?

[BanMethadone]

Speaking as someone who has been on methadone for 14 years and looking at how much it has cost me in terms of my health, my relationships, and my own personal growth... not to mention all that money to the clinic, I would say run in the other direction. Don't do methadone, and also if you need to take extreme measures to get off of the other things you are taking, then do it. Ultimately you have to make a choice to stop, and as Gnarly said, there is no get out of jail free card. You will have to suffer now, or be sure to suffer so much more later. You are only delaying the inevitable if you put off detox. Years down the road, the pain will be so much more intense because the longer you use, the more you train your brain in addiction and the more you slowly deteriorate the quality of your health and you own life. Then when you do finally choose to get it together, the emotional and physical pain is so much more intense. I like a good cathartic experience, don't get me wrong, but damn... not like that.

My advice, get it done now. You have absolutely nothing to gain by waiting, but your whole life is waiting for you, and it can be a great life, but you have to take baby steps to rebuild it. You have to eliminate anyone and anything that stands in the path of success. You cannot keep feeding into that infinite negative loop.

stay positive and if you need anything you can always come here for support.

[Zenstate8]

It's really myself.I posted before I knew the privacy on this site, I apologize . I'm so scared on what I should do! I was able to quit in past with 5 subtex tabs but I know they are different.  So basically the body doesn't know the difference between methadone or heroin correct? I have never been so afraid.. I have been in this cycle for 10 years now. I have also quit K8 in July with help of 2 mg sub strips. I was on them for 30 days and detox lasted 3 weeks! I'm just so frustrated and disappointed in myself that I kept going back. I feel like on this dose even tho I just started I'm able to function and for the first time I haven't craved or used and in fact I have been around people who use around me and I don't want it at all. I know I shouldn't be around ppl like that but hard to escape when they live with you:/. I have never been so lost..

[Zenstate8]

It's really myself.I posted before I knew the privacy on this site, I apologize . I'm so scared on what I should do! I was able to quit in past with 5 subtex tabs but I know they are different.  So basically the body doesn't know the difference between methadone or heroin correct? I have never been so afraid.. I have been in this cycle for 10 years now. I have also quit K8 in July with help of 2 mg sub strips. I was on them for 30 days and detox lasted 3 weeks! I'm just so frustrated and disappointed in myself that I kept going back. I feel like on this dose even tho I just started I'm able to function and for the first time I haven't craved or used and in fact I have been around people who use around me and I don't want it at all. I know I shouldn't be around ppl like that but hard to escape when they live with you:/. I have never been so lost..

[gnarly_1]

First off there is no'' get out of jail free card '' if you only use it for a few days the heroin withdrawal willcome back a worst case senerio is staying on the methadone longer and wind up addicted to the methadone  methadone was never made to detox somone it was made to be used as part of a recovery program...unfrochnetly many wind up on it for years I was on it almost 7yers at 150mg the detox was brutal with the heroin you kick in about 5 or 6 days with methadone it takes a good 2 weeks and then the energy crash sets in for months although the heroin has a harsher withdrawal in the beginning it is out of your system and you not left a disaster like methadone best bet it to just hunker down and go there the heroin withdrawal it will be over sooner and give you a lot less grife then methadone I wish your friend all the luck in the world there are several x/'heroin members and in sure they will chim in in the next few days so check back later on keep posting and reading the posts we all want to see your friend get clean.........Gnarly...........