Families & Friends Of Addicts Support Group

sweety, there is not anything you can do to "talk" your husband into taking medicine or taking it properly. Stopping drugs is only the tip of the iceburg. And whatever choice is made to help them stay with recovery has to come with them, and worked through BY THEM. There is nothing you can do. Of course we are supportive OF their recovery when they are working at it.

Falling asleep with cigarettes is NOT acceptable in any which way when you have children or even just yourself in the home.

Please do not wait for a tragedy before you set a strong boundary about this. IF you need to leave to protect you and your children from being in a house fire, please, please do so.

The addict will use if they are going to use and all the talks in the world, and all the threats and all of anything you can think of will not work, unless HE is ready to do what he needs to do.
I understand that you need your husband back, but remember he cannot be a husband or a good dad to the kids as long as he is active in his addiction.
I am so sorry for your pain..
EllaBlue

Can he hurt himself by taking the Suboxone this way? Will it still help him to stay off Oxycontin?
We can't leave him. I will just have to watch him more.

I thought you couldn't get high from using Suboxone. My son used Subutex for just a very short time, but it didn't make him high. The things you are describing are EXACTLY the way my son acts when he's high on heroin. Are you sure that's all he's doing?

I read online that you couldn't get high from Suboxone too. But I also read on a different site you can by snorting it. My husband said taking it this way didn't get him high, so I tried it with half of one of his pills. It did get me a little high, and gave me extra energy then it made me sick and throw up a few times. So I believe it does get him high. I've been told that Oxycontin is like heroin, so Suboxone must be similar also, that's why they act so strange and pathetic.

subox is to be taken by putting it under your tougue and let disolve...it is not to be swollowed or chewed. I am guessing that crushing it and snorting it would make it more potent...he's prob. seeking the high or walking through the addiction steps as when using coke.

I think you need to be sure he is snorting the Suboxone and not something else. Yes, it works in a similar way as methadone, so it does have the possibilty to give a "high", especially being absorbed through the mucus membranes. Good luck, you need to talk to his doctor, ASAP.

It looks like he is still fighting his addiction. What can we say but "Good Luck"

Suboxone only doesn't get you high if you have a very strong tolerance for opiates and are going through withdrawl from them. It was originally designed for people who were addicted to shooting up heroin, so its a stronger dose than what your husband needs for his tolerance level. I just thought I would help you all out since you are wondering. I know personally that suboxone does get you high.

My friend has an addiction problem with shooting heroin and sometimes tries to quit and gets suboxone. They don't get him high, and sometimes he still even has some withdrawl even with them, and still has trouble sleeping, so he'll trade me some suboxone for some of my klonopin to help him sleep, or just sell me some (probably so he can just go buy more dope). I've never snorted it but by disolving one under my tongue I get a nice, long lasting high that lasts for at least two days. I'm not trying to promote this but I'm just letting you all know where I got my information.

I read your post but did not get through everyone elses. My boyfriend is in detox right now because he was abusing suboxones. I know exactly what you have been seeing and it's scary as hell. Falling asleep sitting up, worrying he will fall asleep with a lit cigarette, mumbling, not sleeping but then falling asleep randomly, falling on the floor, blacking out, mood swings, I can go on. Get him into detox. That is my advice. Once you bring children into the situation, you need to think of them and what they are seeing as well. Yes, suboxone gets you high.

My son has been on suboxone for 2 years now, taking it as prescribed. It has to be placed under the tongue to dissolve, then no food or drink for 45 minutes, it's called sublingual. I have read and been told that crushing and snorting it, would be like taking small tiny pieces of gravel and snorting it, that a person would not be able to stand it. Your husband has to be using an opiate and/or heroin. Suboxone does not do the nodding that he is exhibiting. If taken properly, suboxone will take the cravings away, as it blocks something in the brain that eliminates the opiate/heroin cravings. Alot of addicts will take suboxone when they aren't able to get opiates. This way it will keep them from getting dope sick and withdrawals. I am going to check with some other recovering opiate/heroin addicts about the crushing and snorting of suboxone.

Oxy, MS Contin are the strongest opiates, next to heroin. That's why addicts switch over to heroin, as they aren't getting the same effects of being high - they've built up a tolerance, so they resort to the "king of opiates" heroin.

Once I find out about snorting subox., I will let everyone know.