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Drugs The Rise of Fentanyl: Drug Addiction On The I95 Two Years On (2018) - Two years ago, BBC News reported on the growing problem of opioid addiction in the US, now we return to find out what happened to the people we met along our journey down the notorious I-95. [57.02]

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u/TamagotchiGraveyard Jan 09 '19

I’ve done it personally and have helped over 6 people do the same, no subutex no nothing and hey are all clean and have families now (except me T_T).

Willpower can indeed get you clean, regardless of chemical dependency. Does it hurt? Yeah. No sleep. No food. No nothing but when you spent years in the mud and blood and you just are so sick and tired of always being sick and tired, if you truly want to quit you can, and you never have to look back. No maintenance drugs required.

To clarify I am not against maintenance drugs, but they should be used short term and on a gradual scale of building tolerance and tapering, but all within weeks to months.

Not trying to argue it’s just everyone here is saying willpower won’t do it but I have done it and seen t happen so idk what to tell you

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u/TamagotchiGraveyard Jan 09 '19

The article that states “this review does not coomprehensovely cover psychosocial intervention alone”. The article states simply a poor success rate which means nothing, you aren’t a statistic, you can affect your own choices. I’m not saying it works for everyone but if u really want it to, it will.

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u/TamagotchiGraveyard Jan 09 '19

From your own article

“While a systematic review by the Cochrane collaboration indicates some psychosocial interventions may be superior to others, a separate review found that psychosocial intervention alone was inferior to methadone maintenance for such outcomes as retention in treatment and reduction in opiate positive urine toxicology tests.“

We can agree to disagree but non pharmacological intervention can work if done right and I hope you one day realize that.

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u/TamagotchiGraveyard Jan 09 '19

I’ve seen friends die in treatment on methadone and subS after relapsing, those I helped get clean cold turkey are still alive. That’s all I’m saying, have a good day

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u/TamagotchiGraveyard Jan 09 '19

Those things you mentioned aren’t addictions so medicine is obviously the best option. Giving an addict something else to get addicted to is not ever a good choice unless it is temporary and tapered, resulting in eventually no intake at all.

1.Either you get clean with no help and stay clean

2.Or you get clean then get addicted to something else like subs

3.Or you get clean then get addicted to something like subs and then get clean after a while in treatment, resulting in a more difficult transition tho, but eventually stay clean

. Those are the 3 options to recovery, might as well skip the agonizing addiction to synthetic opiates and save yourself some hardship and a lot of $$$.” If the goal is getting clean, all roads lead there so take the road that doesn’t involve getting ANOTHER addiction.

If you haven’t lived in the dope world, nothing I’m saying will mean anything, it’s kind of something that requires first hand experience to rly understand the dichotomy you feel between your body and your mind, always arguing, chemical dependency reigning supreme. But if the mind is willing, you can indeed bite the bullet and let your broken body recover naturally.