i have a friend who has been addicted to pain pills,soma and any other thing he can get ahold of. i found out a little while ago that he has ben taking suboxone, but he is also aking all the other pills too. does suboxone still allow you to get loaded on other opiods when you take it? he's not getting the suboxone from a docter, he's getting it from a friend of his who has a prescription. what is the point in even taking the suboxone?!?! one of my other friends has been on suboxone for two weeks now to get off the pain pills. he has slowly ben weening himself off of that. i am wondering if when he runs out of the suboxone, is he still going to have some form of withdrawals? any information you may provide for me on either one of these situations would be truly helpful. thank you.

all opiates carry w/d's with them,so the answmer is yes,when he quits suboxone he will have w/d's and will need support and self will to stay away from other opiates or pills or he'll end up bacjk at square 1....if he is on suboxone it has a added ingredient,naloxone,which will block ant other effects from other opiates so its useless for him to be using anything but suboxone and defeats the purpose.suboxone will withhold the w/d symptoms until he has the plan to quit or continue on maintance......he needs to find a doc who will prescribe him subutex/suboxne and monitor is urine..then he needs to reach out for self help programs or 12 step programs,a/a or n/aq...he has to realize he is a addict and has no control over his addiction and turn over his will and power to a higher authority....chef

thank you for your help.my friend who is taking all those pills and the suboxene will not admit that he has a problem. i try every day to talk to him and all he seems to say is that he hurts..from what i don't know. he has no medical problems to warent taking all this stuff. he is 46 years old and has been an addict since he wa 16. any thing and everything he can get, he does. he is killing himself and i see it, and i feel so helpless to help him. everyone in his family tells him every day that he needs to quit and get help b/c he is eventually going to kill himself. he lives in new orleans and i have noticed since the hurricane that he has gotten worse and worse as the days go on. i truly believe that he has that post tramatic stress disorder and that is the reason he is getting worse.like i said, i talk to him everyday about this, but he really doesn't want to hear it and it hurts me so bad. he has been my very good friend for over 20 years and i have been watching him dwindle away to nothing. it hurts to try to talk to him on the phone and he is so messed up he can't even get his words out. sometimes he makes me really mad but more than anything it usets me. i watch intervention every sunday and everything these addicts go through on the show he goes through every single day. but thank you for your reply. do you have any advice. i want to call his docters so bad and tell them that he is an addict besides the fact of docter shopping but he will not tell me what docters he is seeing no matter how sneaky i am about trying to get the information. i have even considered calling the dea on him, but i would hate to see him going through w/d in jail.i really do not think he would make it through them.