[TKDietz]

"why would anyone use an opiate to wean off demerol?"

Because quitting a drug like that suddenly can actually kill you if you are addicted and your body is used to high doses of the drug. Most people prescribed heavy narcotics over a long term will become addicted. Even after 5 to 7 days of using Demerol it is recommended that you consult your physician before quitting suddenly. It is common practice for physicians to wean people off of these drugs slowly and even switch to lesser narcotics to help them taper off. Methadone is an opiate often prescribed for this as it supposedly has less of a "high" and withdrawals from it are less pronounced than with many other opiates or synthetic opiates. Demerol is a very powerful and highly addictive synthetic opiate.

[wardaddy]

i'm familiar with all that....it's just that true opiates are to me more satisfactory than demerol

why not use something less enticing like Darvon or Talwin?