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In my 17 years of pain management medical practice, patients have told me countless times that when they tried to quit or wean themselves off Methadone, they have found the withdrawal to be horrible, making it harder to quit Methadone than to quit Heroin Later on when Suboxone and Subutex came onto the market, I began to hear many patients complaining that they found it harder to wean down on or quit Suboxone or Subutex than to quit Heroin, cold-turkey styleHow can this be? Weren't Suboxone, Subutex and Methadone invented to help people quit opiatea addiction? How come people stay on these for so many years?The answer lies in the fact that these drugs have much longer half-lives than common opiates Half life is the time the human body takes to eliminate half of the amount of a particular foreign substance in the body There is a half life for alcohol in the human body There is a half life for intravenously injected Heroin, about 4 hours That means, every 4 hours, the total amount of heroin in the body of a person who had been injected with heroin would decrease by half Usually it takes up to 7 half lives for the substance to practically disappearSuboxone has a half life as long as 3 days Methadone has a half life as long as 7 days It is these long half lives that make these drugs difficult to quit They hide in the fatty tissue in the human body and accumulate over time They accumulate far more than other opiate drugs do While a heroin addict might suffer 8 days of physical withdrawal while quitting cold-turkey style, a Suboxone user would suffer up to 3 weeks of physical withdrawal, and a Methadone user would suffer up to 2 months of physical withdrawal No wonder many patients found these drugs that were supposed to help them rid addiction have become more powerful and addictive drugs insteadRapid detox can help people who are addicted to Methadone, Suboxone and Subutex Call us at 800-276-7021 if you have found it harder to quit these drugs than the original opiate drugs you were addicted to
