Posted by bee happy on February 3, 2003, at 22:45:46
In reply to Re: opiates and depression please read!! » bee happy, posted by LAURA777 on February 2, 2003, at 20:01:41
Laura Look at that Buprenorphine study again. Many of the subjects were self medicating before the study. I did too. Until I was 35 I would take what ever opiate i could get my hands on. And because of the awful guilt i felt, went through a rehab to stop. For the the next 15 years I was just"ok"...not great by any means, but functioning. The grey returned with a vengence about two years ago.I too started 'borrowing' an occasional pain pill from my husband's rotator cuff surgery prescription for Norco.(With the same response as your husband) When my Psychologist told me about the harvard study...she said "Bee, you present too well. Beg. Cry. Ask the Psychiatrist to use you as a guinnea pig!" She was all for trying it and told him so. He was tetchy at first...mostly because of the hell he would have to go through if the government started scrutiniziing his prescription writing. But then he read all the literature about the new program using Buprenorphine for drug dependence, and that it was a shedule III with little potential for abuse due to the agonist/antagonist properties). That was it. I found the pharmacy where it could be compunded to sublingual form and we were off.(My husband is now totally supportive and understands now what I was going through). Perhaps you could try a doctor that specialized in drug dependence..and with the help of your family doc and your Psychologist...get a trial dose. The CDR website is (http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/subutex_suboxone/default.htm).I hope this is some help. I really feel for you. You might even try calling McClean Hospital in Boston where the Harvard study was conducted....and ask for DR.Bodkin. Someone on this board was actually able to speak with him personally when he was desperate to find a doctor will to try this treatment. Let me know how you're doing. If nothing else...it's good to have somone you know understands what you are feeing. Believe me I understand. Bee
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