Methadone: Methadone Facts

Question: How do i help my husband whos coming off methadone with the withdraws? ?

(Posted by: on 2012-01-13 19:44:00)

Ello. I was wondering what I could do to help my husband whos quitting methadone. What happen was back in August our son was born two months early. Due to the high stress that came with that he relaps and started to do heorin again. Around Christmas he came and told every body that he had messed up and needed help. His family member helped him by taking him to a clinic where they offered methadone. Hes been there for maybe a month now. This morning something had happen and the lady refused to give him his daily dose. So he left and decieded to just go cold turkey. Now Ive never done drugs or known anybody who has. I just know that coming off this is very long and painful. So my question is what should I expect in the next while and what can I do to help and be supportive? And is there any home remedies or something I can get at store to at least try to help with the withdraws/ pain. Any advice would be so helpful. Many thanks in advance

Posted by: Miss Larvi on 2012-01-13, 19:44:32

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Posted by: Chip on 2012-01-14, 03:55:41

He should go back to the clinic or go to another one. If your planning on getting off methadone you need to do an extremely slow taper.The usual way to taper from methadone is 10% every 2 weeks.You take 90mgs total every day so you would cut that to 80 mgs.Try cutting down 10 mgs every 2-3 weeks ( you have to wait this long because methadone has a long half-life).When you get to 30 mgs ask your dr about subutex.If you don't want to involve your dr then once you get down to 20-30mgs/ day then slow down to 5 mgs every 2 weeks,if you start to feel bad go back up.It takes along time but it's worth it.If you try and stop cold turkey you will be in withdrawls for months.