I've been an opiate addict for a couple years now and went to see a Dr. for
Suboxone treatment. She prescribed me 8mg twice a day which seems fair enough.
-I've been to an inpatient treatment before where they treated me with 4mg Suboxone 3 times daily for 4 days(Just to get me through the worst part of w/d I suppose) and it really is a miracle how well it works. Anyways the treatment facility wanted to put me on suboxone maintenance and I turned it down because originally I didn't want to just replace one drug with another. I ended up relapsing and now realize that I should have done the suboxone treatment so it could give me time to re-train myself to live without getting high.
Anyway the point of this thread is I don't really know this Dr. and don't know how much I should trust her I don't want to be on Sub for years. So I'm asking for some experienced advice (I hear Robert is the guy here to talk to) on how to administer Sub to myself. How long should I stay on the 8mg twice a day? I'm pretty sure I could do 4mg twice a day which I will probably try after 5-6 days but I'm not quite sure. I would like to say that I will be completely off Sub in 90 or so days however we will see.