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Need help with how much of my first suboxone dose i should take having such a low tolerance to any type of medication. please help!
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Who is your doctor?: If you are appropriately starting buprenorphine treatment, there should be a doctor who has received a special waiver (with training) who knows how to do it, and that doctor is the one you should be questioning. If you are taking it without prescription, you are putting yourself at risk of precipitated withdrawal if you have recently been taking other opioids. Talk to doctor/pharmacist.
Answered 3/21/2017
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Seems odd: if someone is on suboxone, they have had an addiction history with taking narcotics. Can the person have a "low tolerance" to the abused medication? The standard dosing is about one TENTH the average final dose of suboxone (2 mg versus 16). So, going with teh standard dose of 2 and rapidly increasing would be quite safe (except for possible withdrawal from prev narcotics).
Answered 8/13/2015
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