Still addicted to vicodin

[Inrealdeep802]

I have heard about methadone for treating opiate addiction, I want to hear more about it. I've been doing 10 to 12 10/325 hydrocone for the last two years approching three. I'm only 18 when I started them I weighed 196 and was in extremly good shape, now i m 6 feet one inch and weigh 156 I feel like I'm dying slowly and the worst part of all this is worrying about how I'm gonna get high next I planned on going to college but I don't see that happening right now. I also hear that if you tell your doctor your addicted to something they make sure your not prescribed painkillers anymore is this true? If so who should I talk to about methadone? I. Can't go more then 4 hours without snorting any hydrocone, also when I've been going to the bathroom there's been a lot of blood in it, could that be from the tylenol? Thanks to all that commemnt on this and try to help me!

[Inrealdeep802]

At one point I went three months without doing any and I was completly out of it the whole time. It was hell, when I'm not high on opiates I can not function at all. When I wake up I don't worry about eating I worry about this drug, also its been a gateway because when I cannot get painkillers I have to get opiates that I would have never even been around a year ago.

[Julia M Aharonov, DO]

I wish you would consider quitting opiates altogether. Methadone and Suboxone are both opiates that are actually what is better called "substitution" treatment, not addiction treatment. You are actually just getting a legal, prescribed form of an opiate. And Methadone is far from benign: because of its extremely long half -life, methadone is one of the opiates that’s most difficult to detox from. Any attempts are usually so prolonged and excruciatingly painful, that most addicts are not able to go through with the experience and give up. Methadone "addiction treatment" becomes a lifestyle in most cases.
You are far too young to be trapped in that lifestyle. You are certainly right to be concerned about you liver that should be checked as soon as possible. Please look at my blogs that talk about options for detox by clicking on my name in blue and please check out my clinic's website as well on my home page. Please take this very seriously, I am worried about you, can you talk to your parents and get them to help? Your life is only beginning, you have so much ahead of you, please do not give up.