The Xanax is only a peach. Someone told me that if you take Xanax after the methadone it can cause you to over dose on the methadone. I just wana take a peach wich I think is the smallest xanax
Is it safe to take Methadone and Xanax at the same time?
Question posted by Mrs Young on 8 June 2010
Last updated on 23 January 2022
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9 Answers
Asandraya
17 Oct 2018
It sounds to me like you don't have a valid prescription for them, so this fact alone makes it clear to me that you have no business taking Xanax at all. And for the record Xanax also comes in a white .25 pill which is half the amount of the .5 peach.
Shaye527
8 Oct 2018
Absolutely not! I am, right this moment, standing in my brother's CV ICU room because he mixed the two. He is on a ventilator. Praying he pulls through!!!
daltonblack619
27 Aug 2018
Yes you can but it all depends on amount, tolerance and length of time on medication
Blue 79
24 Jan 2022
Absolutely
Onceisenough
2 Sep 2017
No!! It is not safe to take these two drugs together. Any combination of them can be a lethal overdose. My doctor made a huge mistake and prescribed me methidone and Xanax at the same time and my pharmacist filled them and after talking a 10mg methidone and a 1mg xanax I woke up in the hospital with a tube down my throat after they gave me narcan to start my heart. Please don't do it.
Blue38
18 May 2018
I find that very hard to believe to should be truthful on here seriously
Jambones
23 June 2018
Believe it because it happened to me also. Deadly combo!
daltonblack619
27 Aug 2018
Wow! That seems like an awfully same dose to have that effect! However I don’t wanna be negative as everyone usually is! Was it your first time with each?
daltonblack619
27 Aug 2018
Small I mean
Rmalmodovar
4 Aug 2016
My heart just brakes at the thought of you doing this. I watched my beautiful boy, The one I watched splash in the puddles as a little boy, attack me and my elderly parents for 100.00 while on Xanax and methodone so very sad. Please don't.
Sad Sister
28 Dec 2011
Hi, I just found this site and have been grieving my sister for 2 1/2 years now who died at age 52 from Xanax and Methadone overdosing. She had taken them together for a couple of years I believe, and kept upping the dosages. Her best friend, my other sister, and myself kept telling her that she is taking too much medication as her speech was slurred and she shouldn't have been driving as she made a lot of mistakes, like putting the gas on instead of the brakes. She also had hallucinated seeing bugs in the kitchen drawers.
One day in April of 2009, 8 months after losing our dad, we found my sister dead in her bathroom. We hadn't heard from her for 3 days and got concerned. Went to her house and found her on the bathroom floor as she had fell dead from the toilet. It was not a pretty sight. Her dog stayed by her side for the 2 days she laid there. Her dog followed her everywhere and never let her out of her site while Dori was living. My sister Dori did not have children nor a husband.
The coroner did an autopsy and said that Dori had died from an overdose of several medications. Mainly methadone and Xanax. The family felt soooo terrible that we didn't have an intervention when we first knew she had a drug problem. When we went into her home and found her on her knees and forehead on the floor with her butt in the air and pants down because she had been on the toilet, we freaked. Her cup of coffee was on her table, her food was on the stove ready to be warmed up, her computer was on her favorite solitaire game. The coroner said that it was instant as her breathing just stopped from the overdose. Coroner said that almost all deaths that you hear were in their bathrooms, they were on the toilet.
People, please seek help if you are mixing there 2 drugs! It is not worth it!
Thanks for listening,
Sad Sister
fher7096
7 April 2011
In my unprofessional opinion absolutely not safe. My father has been struggling with opiate addictions for 20 years and been on and off methadone treatment for years. His recent actions have driven me to research these drug interactions. He has been trying to get his hands on xanax from anyone he can lately including his own daughter. He tells her its so he can sleep but now we know why he acts like a junkie for it. The methadone xanax mix is the equivalent of a heroin high but lasts all day with brain damaging effects. My father is acting like a drug addict again and rightfully so... he is. He still does the nodding off thing all the time. Methadone is suppose to help people get off opiates by lowering the dose over time. So why has he been on the junk for years and now addicted to xanax and adderall. I have been researching this topic to find results that are very disturbing.
Junkies know methadone and benzos are cheaper than heroin and opiate pills and the high is better, cheaper, and lasts longer!!! Plain and simple work with your doctor on weening you off methadone and DO NOT MIX WITH XANAX
Sincerely,
Another person about to loose a family member to this junk
Sincerely,
Another person about to loose a family member to this junk
travel-dose
18 July 2013
I know this is an old post, but it is so riddled with factual mistakes and pure speculation. Don't listen to anything this post has to say. Making posts like this is making the problem worse. Because you posted incorrect information, you are putting more people at risk.
Blue 79
24 Jan 2022
Yea I understand when it comes to Family but it's best to know to each his own... everyone's different and handles things differently.. sure it's not a good mixture but once you're hooked on this mix it's very hard to come off of.. understand this and do your best to keep up encouraging conversations off doing better and Pray bout all you can do.. much love n prayers for Your Family n Yourself cause it's really hard on both sides of it
chance4reallife
8 June 2010
You shouldn't have a problem with just one its taking many that can cause overdose. Always take medication As percrubed by your doctor if your going to go out on a limb. Read the package and take As it says. Call your pharmacy to ensure that the drugs you are taking do not cause an interaction As some can potentially be fatal if mixed together. You are fine to take one zanax of that dose probably every 4 to 6 hours. Read the label to make sure
Rajive Goel
8 June 2010
methadone ↔ alprazolam
Applies to: methadone, Xanax (alprazolam)
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory-depressant effects may be additively or synergistically increased in patients taking multiple drugs that cause these effects, especially in elderly or debilitated patients.
MANAGEMENT: During concomitant use of these drugs, patients should be monitored for potentially excessive or prolonged CNS and respiratory depression. Ambulatory patients should be counseled to avoid hazardous activities requiring mental alertness and motor coordination until they know how these agents affect them, and to notify their physician if they experience excessive or prolonged CNS effects that interfere with their normal activities.
Read more: https://www.drugs.com/interactions-check.php?drug_list=1578-0,133-54#ixzz0qFe6EeTH
Hope the info helps?
MarlboroRed100s
27 Aug 2018
Regarding the Xanax issue... this medication is next to impossible to get off of! I am currently in a very slow wean because if I stop taking it, I have seizures and have almost died twice because I ran out 2 days before I was due to get a refill. 27 hours after my last dose, I went into full-blown seizures and ended up in the hospital via 911. I was in the hospital for 5 days due to my muscle enzymes were way too high and I was facing kidney failure. The ER doctor did nothing to help. My doctor just happened to be doing rounds while I was in that ER and he got word I was there is MAJOR trouble. He came immediately down to the ER and took over! Thank God he was there or I wouldn't be typing this today. This was back in 2006. Xanax is extremely difficult to get off of and they do not warn patients of this happening. If there is a civil suit against the pharmaceutical companies who make Xanax (Alprazolam) count me in!! People, please stay away from this drug. It is lethal!
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