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SAVAS-? about methadone
Savas, Do you go to a clinic to get your methadone or to a doctor? I want to find another way besides going in once a week to the clinic.
What's the post title? I looked through and didn't find it. I'm afraid my mind is slipping fast...:)
I have been on methadone for 9 months/100mgs. I just wondered if i could go to a doctor verses the scary-***, cross-the tracks, slummin' methadone clinic.
Noah, thanks for clearing this up for me. I read your email after i posted this question:)
Noah, thanks for clearing this up for me. I read your email after i posted this question:)
Please read my post on your other topic regarding methadone info original date 10/8/07---NOAH
Heh heh...they can be trying. They just found a way onto the high shelf which was made so cats CAN'T reach it.
Shoot, I just found out my clinic didn't get approval for their move at the end of the month. They're going to fight it, but they're now looking at a permanent shut down date of somewhere between november to December.
I'm not sure if this is a problem or not yet, or even matters, but it is disturbing. There are going to be about 300 patients that will need to be absorbed into the area clinics, and they've already gotten the heads up on the situation, and are REFUSING to do so. It should be interesting to see how it plays out.
I'm not too worried, I'll either be totally off in a few months (most likely-maybe-who knows? :) I make no predictions, the last prophet was Elijah, after all) or with my clean time and low successful taper, I shouldn't have a problem. I'd be an easy statistic for a "success story" for any of them (essentially was told this at one place I checked).
Shoot, I just found out my clinic didn't get approval for their move at the end of the month. They're going to fight it, but they're now looking at a permanent shut down date of somewhere between november to December.
I'm not sure if this is a problem or not yet, or even matters, but it is disturbing. There are going to be about 300 patients that will need to be absorbed into the area clinics, and they've already gotten the heads up on the situation, and are REFUSING to do so. It should be interesting to see how it plays out.
I'm not too worried, I'll either be totally off in a few months (most likely-maybe-who knows? :) I make no predictions, the last prophet was Elijah, after all) or with my clean time and low successful taper, I shouldn't have a problem. I'd be an easy statistic for a "success story" for any of them (essentially was told this at one place I checked).
you wouldn't really "swing a live cat" would you?...i didn't know the racist kitty's were really getting to you like that...LOL!!!
I kind of figured that. Of course, getting "For pain" written on the script...well, we know what some doctor's are like. I'd avoid private doctors with methadone. It sounds like a **** shoot and you risk being cut off for a multiple of reasons. Half the stories I hear from people who had that set-up involved a variety of reasons for their doctor abruptly cutting them off.
If its from a doctor it has to have for pain written on the script (depending on state laws) regular MD's cannot treat addicts with methadone by law, that is why clinics were set up the way they are.
Yah, you can't swing a live cat without getting clawed and hitting a clinic here in NYC. I can't speak for outside the city. I was aware of doctor's prescribing like you said, but got the impression the really screw you on price and the like. Nice to know I was wrong on that!
i am not sure of the laws in NY when it comes to prescribing methadone tablets...but here in NH they do prescribe it in pill form, they do accept insurance and the dr's visits cost the same as any other appointment you may have. and they are soo cheap thru the pharmacy, that its ridiculous. $25.50 (at the most, most pharmacies are even cheaper) for 100, 10mgs tablets...BUT...maybe its because we have no methadone clinics for miles and miles around here...
I go into a clinic twice a week, it's a fairly loose, casual set up. I'm not sure if you can do it any other way in America. The only other option I can think of (legally) is to get it through a pain management doctor. I "know" of some doctors who prescribe it without a clinic...but you're getting into some fairly big money to have the "privilege" (Visit costs a few hundred minimum, and they DON'T take insurance).
The only other thing you could try would be suboxone, which is a monthly pick up.
Not that I'm saying your thinking of the following, this is for anyone who's thinking of getting it "on the street"...I have NEVER met a methadone seller who sold you the dose they were claiming it was in liquid form. We joke about that in NY, call it "Kool aid" or "colored water".
The only other thing you could try would be suboxone, which is a monthly pick up.
Not that I'm saying your thinking of the following, this is for anyone who's thinking of getting it "on the street"...I have NEVER met a methadone seller who sold you the dose they were claiming it was in liquid form. We joke about that in NY, call it "Kool aid" or "colored water".
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