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bvaljalo · 07-01-2008, 09:59 PM

Man, I've talked about this SO MANY TIMES, including to some of you asking questions here and now.

Callie ... again ... percocet and oxys are THE SAME DRUG.

Here:
Suboxone.com - Understanding Opioid Dependence

Poke around, lots of good info there.

Here's the two minute version: buprenorphine is an long-acting partial opioid-agonist drug used to treat opioid-dependent patients. It strongly binds to the body's opioid receptors (thus preventing withdrawals), even more strongly than full-agonist opioids/opiates (such as heroin, oxycodone, etc, thus rendering these drugs useless when taken while on bupe) but it doesn't activate the receptors very much (hence the 'partial' part) so it doesn't create any noticeable 'high'. You very much feel 'normal' while you're on it. It does act as an anti-depressant, yes.

So, bottom-line, it's an opioid, so YES there are withdrawals from it. People stay on it for wildly varying lengths of time. From a week to years. Just as with any opioid/opiate (the distinction between these terms is academic, btw), the LESS of it you have been taking recently when you QUIT, the LESS your withdrawals will be. The withdrawals from it tend to be considerably milder than those from full-agonist opioids, but they also tend to linger in a mild form for a bit longer.

07-01-2008, 09:59 PM	#11 (permalink)
bvaljalo YES WE DID!!! Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: East Bay, California Posts: 1,434	Man, I've talked about this SO MANY TIMES, including to some of you asking questions here and now. Callie ... again ... percocet and oxys are THE SAME DRUG. Here: Suboxone.com - Understanding Opioid Dependence Poke around, lots of good info there. Here's the two minute version: buprenorphine is an long-acting partial opioid-agonist drug used to treat opioid-dependent patients. It strongly binds to the body's opioid receptors (thus preventing withdrawals), even more strongly than full-agonist opioids/opiates (such as heroin, oxycodone, etc, thus rendering these drugs useless when taken while on bupe) but it doesn't activate the receptors very much (hence the 'partial' part) so it doesn't create any noticeable 'high'. You very much feel 'normal' while you're on it. It does act as an anti-depressant, yes. So, bottom-line, it's an opioid, so YES there are withdrawals from it. People stay on it for wildly varying lengths of time. From a week to years. Just as with any opioid/opiate (the distinction between these terms is academic, btw), the LESS of it you have been taking recently when you QUIT, the LESS your withdrawals will be. The withdrawals from it tend to be considerably milder than those from full-agonist opioids, but they also tend to linger in a mild form for a bit longer. __________________ well across the fields and woods i'd run like a bullet from a rabbit gun back home to my bed and when mama come in from gettysburg her an' that new beau o' hers 'boy, you look like hell' was all she said ...