What is an opiate potentiator?

Answer 1

A potentiator increases thestrength or effectsof something. In this case an opiate potentiator would make the opiate stronger. There are many potentiatorsthat canbe as simple asfood, othermedications, orenvironmental influences. Always check with a pharmacistor doctorto ensure your medications do not interact or potentiate eachother, especially in the case where one may potentiate the others. This can be extremely dangerous and cause a person to experience adverse side effects such as difficulty breathing. Opiates can havea significant impact on a persons breathing and too much could potentially cause you to stop breathing completely, this is one of the more common extreme side effects.

You should never knowinglypotentiate an opiate (unless instructed by a licensed doctor). If you are concerned that something you are doing is potentiating an opiate, seek immediate assistance froma pharmacist or a doctor. If you feel you are in danger (such as difficulty or slowed breathing), call emergency services (911 in the United States) immediately!

If you are asking this question becauseyou are taking an opiate based medication and it is not working well enough, talk to your doctor about changing dosage or changing to a different or stronger medication. The only one make decisions about changes in medication or dosing should be your doctor.

For those that are looking to get high, please seek assistance and discontinue using opiates. If you havea legitimate need,there are legal methods of obtaining to the medications you need. (If you cannot afford your medications or doctor visits there are programs out there that can help. You just have to look!)There are many people that legitimatelyexperiencemoderate to severepain on a daily basisand have difficulty or cannot obtain the medication they need because of the those that choose to abuse it. Sadly many people either go undertreated or untreated because of this. There are many doctors and pharmacists that will not treat these patients anymore because of the number of abusers out there. The DEA have such a widespread problem to deal with that they cannot keep up and instead choose to use scare tactics... making pharmcists and doctors reluctant to treat anyone. I can't tell you to stop, but I can offer someinsight and hope that you'll listen.