Candy docs

ok now that i am clean after a long 6 weeks i will go back to work running my company on monday my partner has been a blessing holding down the fort for so long i am very grateful in the meantime he threw his wife out so they are getting a divorce and she is severely hooked on roxy's snorting 6-8 a day 30 mgs at a time.  I feel bad for him her and most importantly their 2 kids one is autistic and the other is very hyper.  i got clean from opiates at their house it took me 2 weeks to get over everything except the depression...that lingered on until i got on lexapro...after 3 days of 10mgs of lexapro my depression just lifted however being at their house was tough because she was running around the house high as hell on pills watching me struggle and she was like " if you can do it i can" so i was like cool that would be great maybe i would actually have a clean partner but no.  she decided to choose drugs over her family and that is very sad...the sad part is i dont entirely blame the doctors but i do blame the candy doctor in my case why in the world would i be prescribed 800 pills a month??? i had literally no documentation and walking in this doctors office in tampa was a joke i mean people were literally lined up waiting for their pills cash was flowing (well still is) this doctors office hasbeen shut down on numerous occassions but yet the DEA or any gorvernment has been able to shut it down permanately and i just wonder how did all of you get youre drugs?? off the street?? let me give you an example...i told the doc i couldnt sleep ... did i get a sleep medicine NO i got 120 2mg bars of xanax.....thats all it took hooked...until over 3 weeks ago i quit those beasts!!! hardest thing ive done even harder then opiates .... so im sitting here just wondering should i attempt to take this doc down or let him keep ruining other peoples lives? just curious do any of you know of candy docs?  i hate them for what they did to me ...oh yea heres another example i initially was prescribed 1st visit 120 15mg roxy's 120 percocets 10mgs the next time i came in and the prescriptions were PRE WRITTEN and they upped me to 300 roxys 30mgs!! BOOM just like that its like they were trying to addict me or they were feeding my addiction so i would do anything ...at that time i was a cash buyer no insurance then soon after i got insurance and thats when the financial part was easy 80 bux for 120 40mgs of oxycontin 300 roxys 120 percs and 120 xanax bars thats when i stopped because my body shut down i couldnt pee i couldnt poop <--sorry but just being straight up..oh yea and stopped eating and stopped having fun with my daughter i guess you could say my life became un manageable so i cried out to my business partner i dumped my backpack on my desk and just cried and said i need help. he knew i was taking pills he used to help me get them but he NEVER knew it was as bad as it was when i dumped them out on that desk i will never forget his eyes as 15 bottles of pills came out on the desk he got very concerned and his eyes were just wow i just broke down so he said " if you want to kick these pills i can help you " he said come over my house and i will give you your pills and slowly cut you back i was real emotional and i said ok i'm gonna do this i asked him if i need rehab and he said no you can do this without rehab i was a little unsure and scared as to what i was about to face but in the same sense i was releived ...well after 1 week of slowly cutting i just said you know what screw it i'm done that is why I dont beleive in tapering becaue it just prolongs it so i quit c/t and it really wasnt that bad i just watched TV ate when i cold went to the bathroom ... had hot old sweats and couldnt sleep great but other then that physically not that bad...the depression is what really messed with me...well in short i quit this huge habit 5 long fake years (i had alottt of fun) but it wasnt natural  i just want you all to know that when you are ready to quit you will and dont underestimate youreself please dont let these doctors keep you addicted ok ilove everyone and i'm so happy that you all are here...my only request is for the people that have those analogies like the tiger and the pickel ...they really help me any MOTIVATION like real good stories you have that would help would be great..oh yea sorry about last nights craziness that ambien messed me up but i feel much better today
Josh

[retiredrn]

Yes, I agree that drs are not aware of what we go through to quit these drugs, neither was I before I became addicted.  They are brainwashed by the pharmaceutical industry that dependence is different from addiction and that oxycodone and other opiates are different than heroin.  His wife can't control it, you were lucky, but everyone is different.  It's not that she chose the drug over her family, he chose to forgo the 'through thick and thin' part of the marriage, but I'm just a lucky woman whose husband stood by me until I could quit.

[marcatj]

Josh - I would report him.  That's not practicing medicine, that's dealing.  He's ruining alot of lives.

Sure, no one makes these people walk in his door, but I do believe if they weren't so readily available more people wouldn't even start, and more would quit because they had less access.

Report him.