If you ask a dr to prescribe a specific medication for heroin detox are they likely to prescribe?
Question : If you ask a dr to prescribe a specific medication for heroin detox are they likely to prescribe?
I heard dihydrocodeine was a good script to help get off heroin. Safer, less toxic, less expensive, and equally effective as methadone. How do you find a Dr. to prescribe this medication or maybe a different one that would help with heroin detox?
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Best answer:
Answer by cowboydoc
You can ask the doctor and he may comply but, on the other hand he may prefer something he likes better, take his suggestion but, like I said you could ask.
Dihydrocodeine would not be used to detox from heroin because it is another opiate and the goal in detox is to get a person off of all opiates. I would suggest going into a detox clinic where your withdraw symptoms and health can be monitored by medical staff. Your doctor may have you do that anyway because many doctors will not prescribe medications for home detox. But it they are willing to prescribe you medication suboxone is usually used for detox. The other option is methadone but that is more of a maintenance program since people remain on it for extended periods of time (year(s)). There are often free county detoxes (paid for by the government) that you can check into. The catch here though is that you have to test positive for alcohol or benzos because they are the only things you actually can die of withdraw from as bad as heroin withdraw is so if you want to go to a free detox you can figure out what you need to do to get in…. Best of luck!