As I have mentioned on here before, I have been going to a Methadone clinic for three years or so now. The clinic is not strict at all and my counselor does not do her job but they told us last week that they were going to call us in every 20 weeks and make sure we were not diverting out take-home doses. What that means, say you get six take homes, you take an extra or sell one and they call you in and you do not have the correct amount left then they will kick you off the program. Have any of you that go to a clinic experienced something like this? I rarely take extra but occasionally I do. If you could help me out I would appreciate it. -NICU
This is common procedure with any narcotics. Pain Management clinics do it all the time. I don't quite know what you are asking? Are you asking if this is common practice? Are you asking if you can get kicked out for not having all of it to show them? Don't sell the Methadone, it's as simple as that. If you don't need the amount they give you, tell them. Don't try to make money off the shit....that pisses me off when people do that.
Yeah, I was asking if it was common practice. And no, I do not sell my take-homes, hell, I need all of that shit. Thanks for answering. I knew that Pain Clinics did the same type of thing but I was not sure if Methadone clinics do it regularly. You pretty much answered the question for me. -NICU
I had a friend who was on 180 of done; she was pregnant, and she used to pop oxys on top of the done, which pissed me right the fuck off because if you don't care about yourSELF at least give a fuck about your baby. She started taking extra doses when they started her on take-homes; they called her in, and they gave her a piss test and checked her doses. She tried telling them the bottles spilled, but obviously they didn't believe her, and she got kicked off the clinic. She went into labor a month later, the baby was born addicted to oxies and they took her immediately. She wanted sympathy from me, and really? If she'd never been on the clinic I might have given it to her, because I know how hard it is to kick, pregnant or not (I never used during my pregnancies but I would never judge another addict, because you never know, and you should NEVER say NEVER) but the fact that she fucked around with that high of a dose, got kicked off and didn't care enough about that baby to stay the fuck away from the pills and do the right thing for the couple of months that she was pregnant pretty much removed my sympathy gland. Anyway, that's my methadone story. PS - I would love my asshead PM doc to call me in for a pill count, are you fucken kidding me? He gave me 60 Endocet for a MONTH - if he doesn't know that endocet (and percocet) are not 12 hour time release pills, I can't be held responsible. Fucking clown.
