Can you take cocaine while on suboxone?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no. It helps strictly with opiates.

My sister used suboxone to help her get though a cocaine addiction. She was sent to a behavioral health rehab and that is what they prescribed to her. She says that it helped her out a lot and she is clean now, so I would say that it is definitely worth a shot

New answer: I've known one person get help with suboxone for meth, another for alcohol, and it has helped me with fentanyl patches (the most evil of all substances). Anyway, from my experience, and from what they have told me, we are all in agreement that it is a lifesaver. The way to look at it is, if your life (or the person's life you are speaking of) is in ruin, what you are currently doing is not working out for you, so it is advantageous to try another route. If you are lucky enough like me to have a doctor that will allow you to stay on it as long as you need to, you will see a HUGE improvement in the quality of your life. I would be dead right now if it weren't for suboxone, or living without my family in a field out of my car starving, trying to figure out how to get the energy to go find food. No lie. I now have my family back with a proper diagnosis as to why I was in so much misery in the first place to try to self medicate. If the path you are on is miserable, ask for help. In my case it got me kicked out of my house, but in the end it was the right thing to do. Instead of seeing a MD go to a doctor with a DO at the end of his/her name. It makes a huge difference in your long term treatment.

Answer 2

I can answer this from personal experience, the answer is NO. cocaine does not effect the same receptors of the brain that Suboxone is designed to block. Suboxone attaches itself to the same receptors that OPIATES activate, and is designed to maintain an opiate addict from physically needing and mentally craving opiates, such as heroin or oxycontin.

Answer 3

It is okay to do cocaine while you're on Suboxone. A lot of people do cocaine and heroin together; it's called "speedballing." Doing heroin and cocaine together can be dangerous, because doing uppers and downers at the same time is very hard on your heart. However, Suboxone is a much milder opiate than heroin, one which was specifically designed not to get you high. It doesn't have a dramatic effect on your heart and central nervous system the way heroin does.

Answer 4

They can still get high on cocaine, but they cannot get high on opiates. Suboxone is a partial opiate antagonist, which means that it blocks the opiate receptors in your brain, so you can't get high on opiates while you are taking it. It does not keep you from getting high on non-opiate drugs, and cocaine is not an opiate.

Answer 5

No, Suboxone is for the treatment of opiate addiction only. Suboxone is itself an opiate, but it does not get you high. It feeds a person's physical dependence on opiates, so they can quit getting high without suffering painful withdrawal symptoms.

Alcohol and opiates are two very different drugs, and the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal are completely different from the symptoms of opiate withdrawal. Suboxone will not do anything to alleviate the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.

Furthermore, alcohol withdrawal is much more dangerous than opiate withdrawal. It is possible to die from opiate withdrawal, but death is very rare. Death from alcohol withdrawal is much more common. YOU SHOULD NEVER ATTEMPT TO DETOX YOURSELF FROM ALCOHOL AT HOME. No severe alcoholic -- meaning, no one whose hands start to shake if they go 5 hours without a drink -- should ever attempt to quit drinking without proper medical supervision.

Answer 6

i would say its different from person to person. but i use suboxone everytime for my comedowns, or if get to a point where im uncomfortably high on the amphetamine. the suboxone completley evens me out and makes me feel much better. <---think that goes for any opiates when coming down from amphetamine. so to answer the question i think the general concensus would be, yes the suboxone can help you come down. or atleast even you and make you feel much better...

Answer 7

No. Methadone is used to treat heroin addiction.

Answer 8

No, do NOT do this.

And speedballing is Meth and Heroin, not cocaine.

Answer 9

yeah you can. just don't over-do it.