Drug Addiction Questions

As you are taking injectables in high quantity and with long duration of substance use, it would be advised to get admitted for proper tramadol dependence treatment.

In view of your opioid dependence, you should get admitted at a psychiatric hospital or an approved de-addiction center for the management of your illness. If even after your leg amputation, you are unable to control the substance use, that itself shows that the severity of the illness is quite high. So, contact your nearest hospital at the earliest.

Hi lybrate-user don’t worry, your veins may have been injured but they’re present. They can be found by a specialist phlebotomist as and when the need arises hope this helps.

Urine tests can detect cannabis in the urine for approximately 3–30 days. Saliva tests can detect cannabis for approximately 24 hours after use.

Dear Kamal,
Are you dependent on narcotics? Buprenorphine makes this addictive habit less risky. You may not overdose and die of narcotics. With buprenorphine, less withdrawal symptoms. All the other tablets may be for your associated mental health issues or management of withdrawal symptoms or for medical complication of your habit of taking narcotics. Please decide for something less harmful so that you can have better quality of life.

Yes it can be quitted but journey of recovery is not as short as 1 month. In most case it takes around 4-6 month, in some it might take a year or so, but not with tapentadol alone.

Three or more of the following must have been experienced or exhibited at some time during the previous year:
a strong desire or sense of compulsion to take the substance;
difficulties in controlling substance-taking behaviour in terms of its onset, termination, or levels of use;
a physiological withdrawal state when substance use has ceased or been reduced, as evidenced by: the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance; or use of the same (or a closely related) substance ...more

Hi lybrate-user
there are many strong forces in you despite yor substance dependence.
You are a player and have strong motive to go up.
You can definitely defeat the negative forces.
Drug dependence is a clinical condition.
Always better to stay in some de addiction facility or hospital so that you will get expert help.
Take care.

Unfortunately the tramadol tablets that you are taking are themselves a form of opioid tablets, and maybe as you have used them for such long, stopping them abruptly is causing you discomfort. Tapering them down is one option for you, or you can consult a psychiatrist for help. Other than that, sudden arkamin stoppage can also cause rebound hypertension, and so its tapering is also required.

Mr. lybrate-user, you do not get addicted to mirtazapine. There can be some withdrawal symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, but not with such a small dose.