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i have been going to a methadone clinic for 2 years and i called a pain managment and they told me that i can com in amd they will write me a script for methadone, i take it for opait addication and pain

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If you called and they told you to come in and they'd write you a prescription for exactly the medication you were asking for, you should be very careful and very suspicious.

Professional clinics will usually view anyone that calls asking for a specific medication as being a drug seeker. You may be heading for a place that doesn't even do prescriptions for pain treatment, they may only do therapy and injections. They actually aren't required to be honest with you over the phone about what they may or may not prescribe.

However, Methadone can be written for pain management by any doctor that sees a valid reason to prescribe it. It is only restricted for addiction treatment, in that case, it can only be administered by someone that's specially trained in its use for that in a clinical setting.

You can learn more Methadone details here.

Thus, there's also a chance that the pain management clinic isn't aware, or hasn't viewed the records showing you were taking it for addiction.

I do hope you get help, I am just trying to advise you to proceed with caution.

Are there any other questions or comments?

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when i was looking for the docter i looked under opiot adddication docters and he poped up so i called and told them i have been going to a methadon clinic and told them i am 190 mg a day and she said thats fine they just do random screening

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Hi Janice, I am not understanding if you are asking anything here? Is this a statement or a question? Also, are u taking methadone for pain AND for opiate addiction? Something does not sound right here, forgive my saying, but I do not know all the innerworkings so...I just don't know how you get help for addiction to a drug by taking the same drug - full agonist opiod addiction....it's contradictory I believe. Have you considered suboxone? I never tried methadone and from what I have heard, I am grateful...no offense. It's an old outdated form of therapy and there are more options out there now - more are getting FDA approval as well.

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Just my thoughts on this in reply to Janice. It is an "old" treatment for addition, however it is in some cases a very effective pain management tool. I have been under a Dr.'s care for chronic pain since 2000. I use a Fentynal 75 patch every 72 hours, Percocet, Neurotin, plus some other stuff. I have been on the same dose age for 6 years with no increases. However, when I got the Shingles I was in unbearable pain, my meds didn't touch it. My Dr. tried several different drugs, Lyrica was one but nothing worked until he put me on Methadone. It freaked me out when he first suggested it as I had only heard it used as an addition treatment. He told me that in his opinion it is one of the better pain treatment options for certain things. It worked great for me, I had no problems coming off of it either. So if the op is getting it for pain also it makes sense.

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