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Wise words, guys. ❤💪

I am sorry that this young lady had to go through all these trying issues to get to where she is today, congratulations. how dare anyone encroach on my bodily autonomy. If I want to ring my bell, you can make laws,try to put me in jail for doing that. you've tried and tried .legalize the s***educate people stop overdoses by quality control. Your ideas will not work at least mine have a snowball's chance in hell.

Okay lady if you're going to use facts and logic backed up with critical thinking on this issue perhaps you belong somewhere else because most people don't want to hear that they just can't digest it

Getting off subs is hell

I was up for 23 once, dudes not lying

Excellent discussion!

I had a doctor who removed my voice box total lyrngectomy and refused to give me anything but tylenol. I just resorted to fentanyl on the street. If i go i go oh well. I would never use drugs if I wasn't on the verge of death. But hey the doctors are a tool of the cdc nothing more or less we all have a boss and quotas

How do they determine the timeline? If I were at 20mg and decided I wanted to decrease and be off of it within 10 months - you'd still be likely to have a good idea of where you are in the taper.

The dumbest shit I ever heard lol

I mean with how hospital prices are these days I sure as hell would run away whether if I was on drugs, injured, sick, or completely fine because that hospital bill will make anyone kill themselves. Facts aside glad she got a family that cares about her

Be careful, most people i know who took or take it have been on it for 10+ years. Because withdrawal from suboxone is loooong and brutal. Getting down to 2mg a day is easy but once you start going lower you start feeling it so most people just end up taking it for years. Take off a couple weeks from your life and prepare your soul for epic battle. 1st 7 days are hell but once you get over that hill its nothing compared to what you just went through. The body and especially the brain are very efficient at repairing themselves even from a decade of abuse, its really quite impressive.

I been on suboxone for 4 and a half years straight this tjme around. I had all kinds of health issues which I know are caused by the suboxone. I been on a very low dose the past 2 years. It gets tough under 2 mg. I have way less side effects at the lower dose and I want to get completely off this poison. I am doing a long slow taper and just recently cut from 1.5 mg to 1 mg. Its been a month and I definitely feel mild withdrawal late at night and early in the morning before I dose. At the same time I feel my personality slowly coming back. I know I will have a better life when I am off it completely. I plan to talk to my doctor about getting off it. I will cut my dose again when I feel ready. I had to get on hrt because my estrogen was basically zero. It definitely takes a toll on the body. My blood work was showing elevated liver enzymes and hypothyroidism but after lowering my dose and doing cleanses along with healhier eating I was able to get these things under control

Alcoholism starts with the first drink. Don't start. If you are an alcoholic it is your fault so just accept that it is. I guess that's where your recovery starts, not only by alcohol being available and you not drinking it, but by you recognizing that you had a choice & you chose alcohol.

Congrats my guy, God bless & pass on the blessings👊🏽✊🏾🙏🏼

Thank you for sharing from the heart. As a survivor I am all to familiar with the why my question. Thank you both for being open. Prayers and blessings. Dr. T.B.

I was in the hospital for a week for benzo / alcohol detox and figured what the hell and mentioned I had been taking kratom for around a decade and he immediately said “yea suboxone” and I’ve been on a script since then around 7 months as I tapered off Librium and only am able to hold onto them for around a few days to a week before taking em all then switch back to kratom for the rest of the month without much problem. I only get the 2mg ones which is a crazy jump from kratom I know but I have heard of people being switched from kratom to 8mg strips and that’s wild af to me. But yea I’d say similar feeling to when I first used dilaudid if you have a low to even mild tolerance but obviously works much safer.

Been on it 10 years and I feel like I'm on prison from it.

I got 120 days clean from Percocet’s ETC ! I love your videos man !!

Ugh!!! Kevin I am so freaking proud of you!!!!!!

Tats v call reaction.,... Just instantly get worse craving..

That’s why I quit “recovery rooms” and did it my way/ suggestion of great people I love way. Nothing to do with steps. Opinions like his and a million others all judging each others opinion. Can’t believe I was forced through those rooms for years.

Fun fact: The original joke is... I'm allergic to Xanax. Every time I break out in Felonies and misdemeanors

I take Subutex (very, very low dose) for depression and OUD and it saved my life!

Subs made me feel like i wanted to kill myself. Needless to say i relapsed when i tried them. Been on methadone for 5 months now and it saved my life 😊 even though its super looked down upon i have def been changing that stigma because noone can believe when i tell them i am in recovery

The 1st time you tell your story is scary

I wonder what kind of guilt you must feel getting into substance abuse while having good natured parents and how that exacerbates your feeling of loss.

Kevin was and will always be my best friend. We were best friends and did everything together in boarding school even though I have struggled in my own life. It pains me immensely to see that he has struggled and suffered. We went our separate ways after boarding school, we’ve chatted a couple times over the years, but we’ve lost touch for many. I’m not sure on how to reconnect with him, but if someone could possibly send me his information or I send you mine, he’s always been a great man and I admire him and what he’s accomplished and I hope he is still doing well! Watson Hall

She might as well just smoked it...I also have a hole in my nose which gets clogged up

If your getting high on Subs, you should have never been on Subs, doctors will give people taking to much Tylenol 3s Subs and they get high as fuck, I was in H and used Subs to get stay of of it and even the first time I took 16mg I didn’t feel “High” just felt okay. If you get high on Subs it’s because your tolerance is to low to need Subs.. crazy over prescribed.

This guy has a junkie mind and doesn’t understand what he’s even saying

It took my cousin and she was an adult

*****Guys- if u can come off it, great. If not, and ur on a small dose like 2mg, then that is not causing horrendous issues in your life like what I’m seeing in these comments! And, isn’t 2 mg better than a) chancing withdrawal by coming off and b) risking going back to using? Makes no sense! Why would u stop something that’s working!!!!????

Suboxone saved my life, but came with a bunch of health problems and the withdrawals coming off it was worse than the pills & heroin and lasted about a month.. and the strips are made from silicon polyethylen oxide which is used in nanotechnology and once broke down can travel to ur blood stream

Nobody ever says “oh you have a drug issue, here try suboxone”. Stop the cap. Usually they have already tried every other avenue to get clean. Detox, NA, etc. It’s after they expended all resources and finally let go of the stigma of “replacing one for another” do they actual WORK a suboxone program. If you don’t let go of addictive behavior then don’t matter if you had a 100% cure, it won’t work.

I'm on Suboxone and it makes me so sick sometimes. I'd rather be clean and sober but it has me trapped with some of the worst opioid withdrawals one can experience. They put me on 16mg/day because i was taking a small amount of kratom a day. What a scam. I get the getting ppl off the dtreet shit but... They tske it too far sometimes. And sub addicts sct like theyre clean. Theyre absolutely not clean on a drug many many many times more potent thsn Morphine. They might be sober, yes... Butnonly because it raised their tolerance too high. anyone who says "but i dont get high from it!" Just has a tolerance ridiculously high enough tolerance to not get the euphoria anymore. It's not a cure. It's an FDA approved heavy opioid that lets people not have to quit and live as a functional drug addict.

Awesome episode!!!

Condolences to the lady ! Very hard to bear ! Alcohol runs in families it effects everyone seek help in AA and accepting you have a problem is the first step !

Hollywood can’t say enough about the evils of red meat, but are silent about alcohol.

Holy hell can I relate to this. I smoked crack on 12MG subs until I lost just about everything. Sobriety is hard but it’s genuinely the only way to stop suffering. Currently tapering down for the 5 time but I have hope.

Definitely life saving! But has anyone ever seen someone use it on an addict that wasn’t overdosing, but more so as a prank? 😂 I remember seeing a person do this to someone who was high because they owed that person money & didn’t have it. So they used the narcan on them to immediately ruin their high & put them into an instant sober state 😂 They were so pissed off lol!

a drug is a drug, no matter if it comes from the street or the doctor down the street.

Those "arms put around you" in AA are entirely conditional. You better be ok with not questioning and having an uncritical mind if you want their continued "love and support". Otherwise, be prepared to see how little they actually care.

Facts 💯

Suboxone was great for the first year or year and a half I was on it, then one day…. I just stopped wanting to interact with people and suddenly had a VERY high level of social anxiety. I literally feel like a ROBOT on this crap now. Also, my s3x drive is nearly NON-EXISTENT. I could go DAYS not even really thinking about it!! It’s AMAZING for people who are heavily addicted to H, pills, or other opiates- a life saver…. But it’s not a good lifelong solution for like 90% of people honestly. It’s an opiate and it is NOT healthy. I started a slow taper just last week because it’s doing NOTHING for me anymore.

It's the gold standard of treatment because it's the only one that works.

MAT saved my life❤

Stay strong shaun weiss we are all here for you no matter what

The injection did not work for me. Now I'm tapering. Plan to try injection again in 2 mths, just to see if it will work better. But 4 mths post shot, I have a knot where I got the injection. I experienced full withdrawals, chills, anxiety, dieherra, rls, ans my dr thinks it was all mental. Idk if she did something wrong in injecting, or if the shit itself malfunctioned, but it didn't disolve, and withdrawls were terrifying. Been on Box for 4 and 1/2 yrs, was an iv addict for 13 yrs. Suboxone was a TOOL that helped me save my own life. Just until last mth, I had totally accepted taking Box forever, if that is what it took, but now, I'm starting to worry about my teeth (always had beautiful teeth, and I'm not trying to lose them cause of Box,) and I agree, that, yes, there is a spiritual component, that has recently become a major factor for me, personally. If there's anyone who had sucess with the Suboxone shot after an unfortunate 1st Drs attempt, plz let me know. Take care, everyone ⭐ 💜

I believe this man is as great as all the Great Chiefs & Medicine Men of the past.

Dearest Phil, I had a fear of death before having a near death experience some 25 yrs ago. I am no longer afraid. I have cancer and had to stop working as a result. My journey is a long way to go but I know we are here for a time like this. Our purpose is unknown to us be He knows