Help I'm clean from opioids for a year now, if I relapse just one day and then stop will I be in withdrawals instantly again?

[KillingPain267]

I made myself addicted/chemically dependent on oxycodone for a month a year ago. Then was put on suboxone and tapered down. So now I'm clean and have been for a long time. But I want to relapse but only get high once a month or so, to avoid dependence. Is that possible, or will one time getting high make me instantly addicted again? Like with alcohol, the tolerance never resets which sucks, but is it the same with opioids?

 

[mattoman]

I wouldn't test it. The addiction is still in you, you just currently aren't addicted, so trying one more time can probably re-trigger the addiction. I doubt you'd get withdrawals, but maybe more likely to get addicted to the feeling you get when you do drugs, so the bar to do more gets more and more lower. Unless you have really strong willpower then probably don't, but if not, I'd suggest not to try.