This site is reference material. The community is where the live conversation happens. If you want to ask a question, share where you are in the process, or just sit in a channel with people who get it at 3 a.m., that’s what these are for.
Both spaces are run by the same community. You don’t have to join either to use this site, but if you’re going through this, the people on the other side of those links have been where you are.
Discord
Join: discord.gg/quitting7oh
The Discord is the real-time core of the community. It’s where most of the content on this site came from in the first place, channels for active withdrawal, MAT/Suboxone questions, supplement stacks, PAWS, day-to-day check-ins, and one-on-one support.
What you’ll find:
- Live support. Someone is usually around, day or night.
- Topic channels mirroring the categories on this site. The locked reference channels (like
#suboxone-infoor#what-is-paws) are what this site indexes; the unlocked discussion channels (#sos,#daily-check-in,#paws-support) are where conversation happens. - A
#soschannel for the hardest moments. Post one word. People will see it. - Compound-specific channels for 7-OH, MGM-15, pseudo, and kratom leaf, in case your situation needs more specific input than the general channels cover.
Anonymity is normal. You don’t need to use your real name. You don’t need to introduce yourself to participate. Lurking is allowed and encouraged until you’re ready to post.
Subreddit
Join: r/quitting7oh
The subreddit is the slower, search-friendly counterpart to the Discord. Reddit is better when:
- You want to read through how other people handled something specific, taper schedules, induction stories, post-acute timelines, without scrolling through hundreds of Discord messages.
- You want your question to be discoverable for the next person who searches the same thing.
- You’re not ready for real-time conversation but want to read others’ experiences.
The Discord moves fast and conversations scroll away. The subreddit keeps posts around. If you’ve written something on the Discord that you think would help future readers, posting a cleaned-up version on the subreddit is one of the most useful things you can do for the community.
Which one should I use?
| If you want… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Live help, day-to-day check-ins, urgent questions | Discord |
| To search what worked for people in your situation | Subreddit |
| To share a story or guide that will outlast a chat | Subreddit |
| To not talk yet, just read | Either |
Many people use both. The Discord for the immediate stuff, the subreddit for the things worth keeping.
A note on what these are not
Neither the Discord nor the subreddit is a clinic, a treatment program, or a substitute for a prescriber who knows your situation. People here can share experiences and point you toward resources; we can’t write your prescription, manage your taper, or rule out medical complications. When something on this site or in the community disagrees with a clinician you trust, trust the clinician.
How this thing started
The /r/quitting7oh subreddit was created in July 2024 by /u/TheTimeIsHours.
In November 2024, ownership passed to /u/FlyAdventurous6231, documented in the transfer post. Fly also created the Discord server, which became the live-conversation counterpart to the slower-paced subreddit. For about a year and a half, Fly carried most of the load for both spaces.
In February 2026, Fly stepped back from the Discord (the announcement on platform-policy changes), and in May 2026 stepped down from the subreddit (passing the admin torch). Several community members stepped up to share the work.
Current team
Subreddit
- Head Mod: /u/cartmancakes
- Mods:
Discord
- Owner: @18YearsOfRegret
- Admin: @cartmancakes
- Head Mod: @Keso
The team is unpaid, volunteer, and rotates as people’s situations change. If you’d like to help moderate, the fastest way in is to be a useful, steady presence in the community first, then talk to the current Head Mod when there’s an opening.
Just to be unmistakably fucking clear
The volunteer team running this thing has, no joke, been called shills for Suboxone manufacturers. Pharma plants. Dangerous for “pushing MAT” on people. Running a coordinated agenda against the kratom industry. Big Pharma puppets. Every variation of “you’re the real bad guys here” you can imagine, in DMs, in modmail, in reply chains, in subreddit posts that get deleted ten minutes later, and in the occasional unhinged email.
So let’s settle this in writing once.
Nobody pays us. Nobody.
Not Indivior. Not any other Suboxone manufacturer. Not any pharma company at all. Not any treatment center. Not any telehealth provider. Not Reddit. Not Discord. Not a single dollar has ever changed hands. The mods run this on their own time, with their own money, after their own day jobs, while managing their own recoveries. The site has no ads, no sponsorships, no affiliate links, no Patreon, no “buy me a coffee,” no merch, nothing. If you can find a single revenue line attached to any of this, we’d love to hear about it, because we’d want to know too.
Nobody endorses us.
We don’t represent any company. We don’t have a relationship with any company. When we mention a telehealth provider like QuickMD or Bicycle Health or Boulder Care, or buprenorphine, or generic clonidine that costs a penny a pill, it’s because people in this community have used those things to come off 7-OH and they worked. Does the generic manufacturer of clonidine, a 50-year-old off-patent medication selling for pennies, slip us a kickback? Get the fuck out of here with that. Nobody pays anyone to recommend clonidine. We recommend it because it works.
What we do, every day:
- Hours of moderation work keeping scammers, sketchy vendors, gas-station-pill marketers, MLM kratom hawkers, and outright bad actors out of the Discord and subreddit. Hours. Every day. That work is invisible until you go look at the ban log.
- Hours of writing and cataloging. Collecting community knowledge into a place that doesn’t disappear when Discord’s scrollback eats it. Translating lived experience into reference material someone in withdrawal at 3 a.m. can use. The compound pages, the protocols, the dosing math, the hotline numbers, that didn’t exist in this form before we built it. Now it does, and it’s free.
- Showing people there is a way out. Because when you’re stuck on this stuff and the people selling it to you are telling you it’s “natural” and “safe” and “you’re just experiencing wellness benefits”, having someone in your corner who says “no, this is opioid dependence, here’s how people get off it” is the difference between getting free and not.
And here’s the kicker, we cover every approach. We don’t push one path because we don’t have one to push. People in our community have gotten off 7-OH via:
- SR-17018, a biased agonist research chemical with its own caveats
- Straight tapers on the substance itself, slow and careful
- Tapers using kratom leaf as a bridge (this works for some, doesn’t for others)
- Switching to MIT-A or DHM temporarily as a step down
- Cold turkey, with helper meds and a lot of suffering
- Yes, MAT and Suboxone and Sublocade
- Inpatient detox when polysubstance use makes that necessary
If we were “pushing” any one of these, the other six pages on the site wouldn’t exist. Take a look around. Count the protocols. The whole point of this resource is that people get off this stuff in different ways and you should have access to the full menu, not just the option a Reddit account with three hours of posting history insists is the only “natural” way.
If you’re showing up to call us shills:
Take a hard look in the mirror first.
Whose product is being sold at gas stations next to the lottery tickets? Whose product put thousands of people in this community into opioid dependence they didn’t sign up for? Whose marketing told everyone it was “natural” and “non-addictive” and “totally safe”? Whose business model depends on people not understanding what they’re buying?
It isn’t us. It isn’t the volunteers. It isn’t the unpaid mods writing this on a Saturday. The actual people profiting from 7-OH are the ones selling it. Take your “you’re the real bad guys” accusation to them. We’ll wait.
We are tired of this. Tired of the routine where someone gets sober off this poison with our help, then a week later a vendor account shows up to call us pharma plants for pointing them at buprenorphine. Tired of being the target because we’re the visible, accountable thing, easier to attack than the actual industry built on this. Tired of having to explain that no, the volunteer in his pajamas at midnight writing a taper schedule from his own recovery experience isn’t on Big Pharma’s payroll.
Anyone showing up in good faith with concerns, corrections, a genuine disagreement about a recommendation, or a “hey, this page is wrong about X” is welcome and encouraged, see Contributing & Feedback. Anyone showing up to call us shills, plants, or “the real problem” can take it somewhere else. We have actual work to do.
Helping out
If you’ve come through this and want to give back, the most valuable things you can do are:
- Stay around for a while after you’re past the worst of it. The single biggest reason this community works is that people who got through it stick around to answer questions for the next person.
- Post your story. Anonymously is fine. What worked, what didn’t, the timeline, the doses, the things you wish someone had told you. The subreddit is the best place because it persists.
- Suggest corrections to this site. See Contributing & Feedback for the PR and reach-the-team channels.
You don’t owe the community anything. But if you’re in a position to, showing up later for someone where you are now is how this keeps working.