Suggest Treatment For Withdrawal Symptoms Of Oxycodone

Posted on Thu, 22 Dec 2016

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Question : i am withdrawing from oxycodone (>200mg/day). What advice and or meds can you give to make this process a little more tolerable?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Matt Wachsman (27 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
many options but...

Detailed Answer:
they really need professional interventions.
1) tapering narcotics. This can be with oxycodone, but it is just better to use a different narcotic such as methadone or suboxone.
2) withdrawing but taking drugs to lower the symptoms:
for nausea, zofran
for diarrhea imodium
for sympathetic overstimulation, clonidine
these are basically only prescribed by doctors.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar