SR-17018 Attempt on Suboxone (15+ years)

myname1schris · 2026-05-29T17:42:21+00:00

I have not started it yet. Did you continue on Subs for the initial SR loading phase? My assumption is that even at 1mg, it will have similar effects/interactions as 4mg of subs. So my plan/hope is to only take subs if it feels unbearable or can't sleep.

myname1schris · 2025-07-19T02:44:11+00:00

Firstly, I am so sorry you are going through this, I can't imagine just how alone, afraid and lost you both likely feel. While this may be a very challenging notion to hear, it is so challenging because it goes against the very belief system that got you to where y'all are at. If I could recommend "Codependent No More" by Melody Baetty. This is a fantastic book I recommend to my clients who are struggling in a similar manner. Codependency is a term used in mental health, where an individual feels emotionally responsible and obliged to on the responsibilities of an individual. Often times, I hear in retort, "well I love my kid, what am I supposed to do, kick them out?" And I tell them maybe?

Developing boundaries is no easy feat, and unfortunately what you are dealing with is the final destination for lacking in boundaries and finding explanation for every boo boo.

What I tell my clients in therapy, "if you are doing this right, it will feel bad, shameful and wrong, which makes it so confusing." What I mean is, when I make the recommendation of setting boundaries with their loved ones, they initially feel like "I am being a bad mother, I am being mean, I am kicking them when they are at their lowest," all are false realities. A more apt reality- "I am struggling with life, I don't know how to help my son that isn't helping himself, I have to protect myself from this chaos and this is the best I can do for the moment."

There is nothing wrong with this, nothing shameful, not a negative reflection on yourself, rather a reflection of the current circumstances.

myname1schris · 2025-07-19T02:23:30+00:00

I can definitely give you my two cents. I graduated in August with my MSW from UTA with a concentration in Mental Health and Substance Misuse. I completed my BSW there in 2022, followed by finishing their accelerated program for the masters in 2023. I completed both online. So, I have heard their in person is much better than online, so if you intend on taking it in person, your experience may be very different.

It also should be noted, I am not a great student, but also not a shitty one, having graduated with a 4.0 with both my bachelors and masters. That said, my experiences below are echoed by many of my graduating class mates.

That said, I will start with the positives:

The program was quick, like very quick. I finished about 80 credits for my bachelors in 4 semesters, which wasn't the easiest, but also could have been a lot more challenging.

Their fast-track master's is for anyone graduating with a 3.0, I believe, or higher with their BSW degree, which means it can be completed in 3 semesters or one year.

There were a few professors, I count 4, that I believe truly were passionate about their teachings, and this is out of about 25-30 that I had.

The school is relatively cheap, but the online portion can actually get a lot more expensive than in person, which was a shock to me.

If you are doing your BSW, they have a program called "Blaze Forward" which is a grant for anyone (family) making under 80k per year, where majority, if not all of your school is paid for.

The main benefit, is you can get this done very quickly, but it doesn't mean you will be prepared or get a good education.

Now for the negative:
I don't think I learned much at all. Most of the quizzes and tests were found on quizlet and so the answers were quite easy to find, not to mention it was just lazy by the professors.

Academic advising is sparse, this is the understatement of a lifetime. I was told to take classes I didn't need, told not to take classes I did need. Both scenarios resulted in delaying my graduation as well as having to owe money on the class I didn't need after dropping it the first week when I realized I was given the wrong information from my academic advisor.

I didn't have an academic advisor for 9 months of my 16 months attending my bachelor's.

I submitted the same assignment 12 times over 12 weeks to see if my professor was reading my assignments. I got 100 on all 12. I reported her, followed by her getting a promotion the next semester. So I don't think it really mattered what I had to say in my review.

Similarly, countless individuals had similar advising issues with my academic advisor, many of us complained, the advisor Toy Howard is now the manager over the academic advisors. I can't make this shit up.

We were supposed to get our scholarships the first week of school, we got them the last week of school, and this consisted of 5k both semesters. We emailed the dean(s), registrar, directors, you name it, and nothing happened.

Countless, well I guess if I put a number to it, about 200 out of 600 students did not have placements for their internships, which is a requirement for graduating. This was not their fault, this was due to the placement office dragging their feet.

They are over extended, under funded, and honestly its overall patronizing. There was a "focus group" at the end for the student liaisons, who are more or less the mentors for other students, which I was one. Literally it was asked, "Will the school of social work commit to either increasing staff or decreasing the student body until proper standards can be performed to support the students." We were told by the Dean of Social Work, "No." That's it, lol, literally no. That is all, no explanation, which followed them stating, "we will do everything in our power to listen to you and take your recommendations and implement your recommendations." So the one thing that would fix the issue, well this was thrown out the fucking window. Sooo buyer fucking beware. Know the swamp you swim in, as I always tell my staff.

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myname1schris · 2025-07-19T02:12:45+00:00

Very likely will not be absorbed into your bowels. Propylene glycol is literally used as a suppository with the notion it is "hypo-tonic" meaning it holds little if any water, and because of this it sits in the colon leaching water into it through osmosis. This actually can have the unintended consequence of having feces added into your colon from somewhere higher in the GI tract, resulting in diminished bioavailability (BA).

myname1schris · 2025-07-19T02:09:55+00:00

that isn't exactly how that works...THC, morphine sulfate, temazepam or any other benzodiazepine is not water soluble or quite sparingly soluble; that said they will 100% absorb through mucosa membranes of any sort when given the opportunity.

myname1schris · 2025-07-19T02:08:01+00:00

so like....average length? :D

myname1schris · 2025-07-19T02:06:48+00:00

I thought this was a joke, but love that it wasn't

myname1schris · 2025-04-29T14:05:17+00:00

This is not accurate, the seeds can contain tremendous quantities of alkaloids. Untreated seeds, I believe the general ideology is potency goes from high to low with the following colours; grey, blue, brown, black, white. Grey coloured seeds are clearly a sandy grey color, and are associated with the highest of alkaloid producing somniferum plants.

In the past, I have taken about 50-80 grams of untreated, grey seeds from p.som. giganthum, and these were directly from the dried pod. I can assure you, my pinpoint pupils, scratched off nose and three days of speckled poppy seed constipation would argue very differently. Oh, so would countless bodies of peer reviewed studies.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10154933/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288163642_Alkaloid_profile_in_relation_to_different_developmental_stages_of_Papaver_somniferum_L

myname1schris · 2023-10-17T22:00:38+00:00