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Can injecting a person with narc-on aide in slowing the progression of Dementia?
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∙ 16y ago
Narc-on seems to be a phrase meaning to tell the police about your activities.
Alternatively, there is a Narconan Rehabilitation which seeks to cure drug addiction without the use of drugs. It is not used in treatment of dementia. Success rates seem to be suspect at best.
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Can you take norco and methadone?
You could take them together but its quite a waste eventually. Methadone works as a blocker of opiates . Heroin addicts get prescribed it to take away their withdrawal but also so they cant get high from herion anymore. You would have to be on it for a little while before that starts working but it eventually does. I used to take up to 30 vicodin and or norcos a day, and when i tried to get off it i was prescribed methadone. ++Addition++ First of all, methadone DOES NOT block the effects of opiates. It does not contain any of the opiate blocking chemicals like suboxone or narcon does. However, taking ANY opiate in addition to Methadone can be very dangerous. Methadone is stronger per mg than many of the standard opiates that people take, such as Norco or Lortab. So taking one of these with Methadone can very easily send you into overdose mode. This is not to say that they cannot be taken together, but you just have to be very, very careful. My suggestion would be to ALWAYS speak with your doctor or other licensed health care professional for advice on what to take with your methadone.
Can you mix Adderall and norco?
I don't know if you should mix adderall and norco but I have both adderall and norco and I have mixed them with no effect from mixing them. It doesn't vreate a high of any sort. I think that because adderall is an upper (causes you to have increased energy, etc.) and Norco is a downer, they kind of cancel each other out when it comes to side effects.
How can you alternate subutex and heroin?
Sure. But if you're dependent upon opiates/opioids, you wont enjoy the experience. This will cause precipitated withdrawal; i'll explain why. Buprenorphine--the active substance in Subutex, Buprenex, & Suboxone formulations--is extremely competitive at mu-opioid receptors in the brain. This means that it will: A) block non-competitive or less competitive opiates & opioids (note: nearly all marketed painkillers with OPIOIDergic activity are non-competitive) from plugging into these mu-opioid receptors, thus preventing the typical "high" of heroin or pain-relieving effects of opiates; and B) buprenorphine will also "kick-off" most opiates from receptor sites; again due to its high affinity (or highly-competitive) mechanism of action.But unlike heroin, morphine, oxycodone, or even codeine, buprenorphine is not a full agonist, it is a partial agonist. This means that it doesn't fully activate (or "plug-into") endogenous opioid receptors in the brain. This results in precipitated withdrawal symptoms if an opiate-dependent individual with moderate tolerance takes buprenorphine during the use of heroin (or other opiates), since buprenorphine's efficacy in activating opioid receptors is lower than that of full agonist drugs like heroin. So with a moderate tolerance, buprenorphine's activation of opioid receptors is not strong enough to induce typical, opioidergic effects and will result in precipitated withdrawal. However, the vice-versa scenario isn't as painful. If someone is taking buprenorphine regularly, they can slowly transition to a full-opioid agonist--however, the full-agonist (such as heroin or morphine) will be blocked until buprenorphine is largely eliminated from the system. Transitioning from a full-agonist opiate to buprenorphine is the more tricky of the two scenarios- as one must be in withdrawal in order to avoid even more severely precipitated withdrawal symptoms resulting from buprenorphine "kicking-off" the non-competitive, full agonist agent from receptors in the brain.Precipitated withdrawal is commonly misattributed to the presence of naloxone in some formulations containing buprenorphine (such as Suboxone). While it is true naloxone is a moderately competitive antagonist at mu-opioid receptors--meaning it will induce withdrawal and "block" non-competitive opiates (which is why it is used marketed as "Narcon" for acute heroin & opiate overdose)--buprenorphine is much more competitive and it is the main culprit for inducing withdrawal if taken in opiate-dependent users (buprenorphine is also morecompetitive than naloxone, & recent studies have shown that the presence of naloxone in some buprenorphine formulations causes very little "blockade" of the opioidergic effects, even if the buprenorphine/naloxone formulation is injection--the very reason naloxone was included in formulations like Suboxone, i.e., to prevent abuse).
