Is there an extraction method for methadone pills

[Beltane]

SWIM's friend had back surgery and now gets an unthiinkably large prescription for methadone as his main pain killer. Tonite SWIM ate one of the wafers. He thinks they're 20mg.

SWIM felt little if anything after chewing up the pills and letting it disolve sublingually with lukewarm water. Tho he's played around significantly with various opiates in the past, it's been weeks since he's touched any. Considering he should have zero opiate tolerance right now he was expecting quite a bit more of an effect from this "wafer."

After using the search engine for this site I have not been able to locate definitive info on whether or not it's possible to extract methadone from a pill in order to IV it, and if so how.

The guy who has these pills is also interested in booting them, tho he too knows of know method to do so.

Thanks in advance-

- Beltane

[Abrad]

There is little point in IV'ing methadone. You will not really get a rush.
20mg should definetely affected you if you have no tolerance although methadone does not really have a euphoric element like other opiates/opioids, in SWIMs experience it just makes him VERY drowsy. It is, however, very powerfull and easy to OD on if you don't know what you are doing. SWIM would advise SWIY to stay away from it. Definetely don't take a higher dose, peopole have died from as little as 30mg.

[Beltane]

Thanks. As SWIM felt little or nothing and reads nothing but horror stories about kicking methadone habits, he'll likely follow your advice and leave them alone.

Still interested to hear if someone has an extraction method tho. I'll try just about anything once out of curiosity.

Thanks-

- Beltane

[stalem8te]

Swim once knew a dude who shot methadones he was on, much better onset he said, swim would recommend shooting 5-10/mg of 10/mg pill. As swim on his first time on methadone decided 2 take 3 10's oral, and literally couldn't stand up, should have been careful & only took 2 first time.

[BANGINCOLOR]

Methadone attaches to different parts of pain receptors in the body. There is NO high with methadone. The reason people are addicted to it is totally physical, not mental. Well, after a long time without it, you will be mentally hurting too.

Addiction to methadone is either you are "normal" or are hurting and in withdrawals and therein lies the danger. Newbies take a methadone and when they don't "feel" high, they take more and more hoping to attain that high and the only thing they get is SEVERE respitory depression or death.

[Abrad]

There is NO high with methadone.

I beg to differ. There is a "high" from methadone although it differs to that of other strong opiods (less euphoric). SWIM tells me he has had some very comfortable days using this substance.

[Forthesevenlakes]

Originally Posted by BANGINCOLOR

Methadone attaches to different parts of pain receptors in the body. There is NO high with methadone. The reason people are addicted to it is totally physical, not mental. Well, after a long time without it, you will be mentally hurting too.

Addiction to methadone is either you are "normal" or are hurting and in withdrawals and therein lies the danger. Newbies take a methadone and when they don't "feel" high, they take more and more hoping to attain that high and the only thing they get is SEVERE respitory depression or death.

There is, in fact, a high from methadone that many people report. Some lab rats SWIM has met have been hooked on only methodone, without another opioid addiction preceding it. They report a very pleasant, dreamy 36 hour high. However, the withdrawal period is longer too. These lab rats had both physical and "mental" addiction.

Perhaps if one is on heroin or a strong opioid before switching to methodone maintenance, there would not be much of a subjective high due to their extreme tolerance, but SWIM has even heard stories of people on methodone programs who would save their doses and take two with some DXM (for potentiation) and report subjective highs there, too. Perhaps SWIY and people SWIY knows don't feel much from it, but that doesnt mean the high doesnt exist.

However, SWIY is right about the cautions of respiratory depression and death. Methodone takes hours to kick in for some, and after an hour without feeling an onset, people mistakenly think they didn't take enough, and end up overdosing. This drug is not something to be taken lightly.

[BANGINCOLOR]

As per the PDR, that is why it's prescribed because there is no high, very little tolerance. It works on different receptors, some reports say that since it binds to NMDA receptors is the reason tolerance is NOT reported as other opiods do not express upon this site.

To feel any high, one would require a very large amount and it would probably have to be in liquid form.

The reason you take it and don't feel anything at first is because it goes directly into your fat cells.....THEN it is slowly released into your system and goes to work on your receptors.

[Forthesevenlakes]

Originally Posted by BANGINCOLOR

As per the PDR, that is why it's prescribed because there is no high, very little tolerance. It works on different receptors, some reports say that since it binds to NMDA receptors is the reason tolerance is NOT reported as other opiods do not express upon this site.

To feel any high, one would require a very large amount and it would probably have to be in liquid form.

The reason you take it and don't feel anything at first is because it goes directly into your fat cells.....THEN it is slowly released into your system and goes to work on your receptors.

This is true, the opioids usually dont act directly on the NMDA receptors. SWIM has a feeling that somewhere down the line, they have an indirect effect as NMDA agonists. He doesnt have any real proof for this, its just a theory he put together. If what SWIY says is true, SWIM would not be surprised to find out that methadone has a slight NMDA antagonist activity which would distinguish it from other drugs. If SWIY can find any papers about methadone interacting with NMDA sites, please post the links or upload them to the files forum!! SWIM would really love to read them, thanks for getting SWIM's gears turning in his head.

[nocomment]

I don't know what you guy's are talking about. Sacajawea just took some methadone and is flying high. I think you people have it messed up. Methodone is a opiate that releases opiates. A.k.a = euphoric high. It also blocks any other opiates from being used. So like, if your taking methadone and than go heroin you won't feel anything. Cuz the methadone blocks the heroin. Sacajawea isn't taking heroin and has no tolerance to opiates. Trust me sacajawea is flying.

[jerbles]

methadone doesn't "block heroin", you probably just won't feel the heroin as much as you already feel the dones.
and yes, methadone does get you high. Swim got high snorting 5mg once (first opiate he ever tried though). now, with a heft heroin habit, dones don't do shit for swim, but that doesn't mean that they won't get the average swiy high.

[dt3689]

well swim has taken mathadone for a while now and swim can get a high from it. and it does not block anything. the way methadone works is that it takes up so much of the receptor that it wont allow anyother opiate to bond right away thats why people dont feel the enital high while using other opiates with it but keep in mind that the toxicity level is still there and this makes it very easy to o.d. so to any who use becarfull

[brandostar69]

swim has taken it too and has a few wafers to spair and was wondering if its possible to rock it?