Medicating Nurse That Steal Ur Methadone At Clinc

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I have been on methadone for 30 years and i have seen all kinds of abuse, either from staff or medicating nurses. They would tell me i had to have a TB test ever year. Since I'm on monthlies, I have random call backs four times a year. The bad thing about it is they are only open from 5:30 am till 10:00 am, and I have to be at work at 6:30 am. And i live 30 miles from the Methadone center. Every month i have to turnover 600 dollars since my wife is on it too. I am just a blue collar worker and the cost leaves me broke every month. Then there are yearly physicals which cost 60 dollar a per couple. Then there is blood work which cost 30 dollars per couple. I thought methadone centers where there to help u. I work from pay check to paycheck and people wonder why Im aways broke. U cant tell straight people why. I cant even get my house painted. I have monthly counseling and they never what to disgust this problem. Just ur emotional state and that ur UA's are clean. Basically just a waste of time, what can they tell me after i have been on it for friggen years.

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I am sorry i ran out of writing space. Over the years i have had problems with medicating nurses stealing up to a disket a day per dose. And when u complain to staff they write u off as a junkie. But what it really is there to embarassed to confront the nurse. Its really hard to work if ur methadone is being short all the time. What has helped is now that Im on monthly u get to see and they count them out in front of me. What also that would help is med. nurses should have to be watched monthly leaving UA's too. Being on a Methadone center will break u financially or spiritually.

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I am very sorry to read of what you are going through.

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wow! iv been on methadone 10yrs now i am doing well better than i have ever been in the last 12yrs. i go to a drug and alcohol clinic i know al the staff some longer than my own friends. i have never had my meds messed with apart from the doctors or nurses that are able to write a prescription write it wrong and if its been a late appointment by the time you get to the chemist and they tell you they cnt give you your methadone because it hasnt been written properly or even signed?? thats happened to me so many times even weekends when the d&a is shut so i have no methadone for 3 days then because you havent had the dose yoyr on they put you down to 40ml from 90 its radiculas!! i find alot of the nurses are over worked have little empathy or time an d as far as 'support' goes pah i go in they ask how are you? i start telling them and within minutes i can see them drifting off. i go once a month to the d&a now and pick up my methadone in full weekly but even though in 12yrs i was clean there was no posativity or even a pat on the back well done, i even said to one nurse (who i wnt see) when she asked how i was and i said 6 months clean she came back at me with ' huh 6mnths thats nothing come back in 5 years and tell me your clean then il say well done' the reception staff couldnt beleive it!!there is no support and here in the uk the government is pulling all the funding its just getting worse. i hope your situation gets better.

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Hello Joesaphene, Wait till u have been on Methadone 30 years. I go back to the blind dose days back in the 70s, dont get me wrong thing are a lot better these days. And Meth. has kept me on the straight and narrow.

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yes methadone can be a life saver and keep you on he straight and narow and has done for me, i have slipped lot of times i started using heroin through a boyfriend i dnt blame him iv had an extremely bad life with my parents and other ppl in my life when i was a child who should of been looking after me but didnt so i self medicated usally with extacy or cocaie an cannibis untill i met my sons father 12 years ago and the rest is hystory. i get annoyed at peoples per ception of a 'junkie' i work have a clean home food on the table and have managed to live a double life 4 mnths ago i came clean to my mum and stepdad who are so against drugs and smoking but i gt a shock they love me...wow and want to help support me its unbeleivable. i would like to get off methadone as i dnt feel well on it i sweat alot its embarrasing i alsosuffer with my digestion an bowels/colon and am having tests done now plus my periods have completly stopped even though i am healthier as in eating and excersise than iv ever been. even though im heroin free im still really depressed even my key worker frm d&a doesnt offer anything? its ard when your a good person iv never hurt anyone but myself iv never stole off anyone or done bad by anyone iv only hurt myself with the drug use yet ppl seem to see all addicts as the same. i hope your situation gets better and your meds dnt get stolen anymore. thanks for answering. im 32 and feel like my lifes just slipping by an i dnt have the strength to keep fighting i just want to get off methadone and as for subutex im on too high dose meth need to be down to 30-40ml before theyl consider it seeing as im at 78mls and going down 2mls a fortnight i cnt see a light at the end of the tunnel yet. hope you all have a good day.

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u and you're gril get a 10 mg increase,that comes out to.and extra 3.5 tabs a week.
then you sell the 14 tabs for $15 each,
THATS ABOUT 200 A MONTH
u can even ask for increase of 20 mg each,
sell $400 a month
i sell a bottel every week of 100mg for$ 30 and that is cheap
plus the 2mg xanx for 4 or 5 each

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Someone help me please, I have been on methadone for five years now, I am a simple person same schedule same meals no other medication, but for 4 years now ive been arguing my methadone is being shorted, it is a thick red liquid where I attend and for a long time it has been watered down and shorted before it even gets to my cup. Now let me make clear I attended everyday for four years and have watched and argued that it is getting worse and I am not getting my dose. I am to recieve 192 mgs a day and since I first started people that were at that mark had to use larger bottles because by state.law there is to be 30 cc's of water and it would not fit in the smaller normal bottles. Since the big bottles have dissapeared and my dose has gone down to less than half a bottle and increasingly looks like pink lemonade instead of syrup, my complaints have gotten nowhere except to be told it is not possible, which now quite a few paitents have proven. I have had the pump not dose me or supposedly freeze up but the machine would not dispense due to the weight being off. I have also had the nurse wipe my signature when I told her I was goimg to have my blood tested to see how much methadone I have in my system, which in five years ive never hears of it or seen a signature wiped again, I have had the same nurse who takes pain meds as well ask do you really need that much and if my pump was dosing you off you wouldnt be able to tell. We moved to a new building about a year ago and I can honestly say I have not one time gotten the 192 mgs that I am perscribed, we have merged with a new company at the same time but I cannot move forward in my recovery at all like this my dose is so hight due to having an extreme metabolism, in four hours I metabolize 60% of my dose. Hundreds of paitents complain but dont follow thru and just for facts a young man dosed just friday said that the dose dispensed was not his dose and it was 10 mgs short and he is only at 60 mgs, that should tell you how much it affects me. I need help who do I go to to stop this now please I have been sober for five years but am struggaling around the holidays,this problem gets much worse, please help.

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saw your post of April 2012 and I have been on methadone for 23 years; attended 5 different clinics and at 3 of those my dose was messed with. In Colo. liquid is dispensed. For past 3 months it's happened again; after a new nurse starts. 264 mg fills 1/3 of the take home bottle & 1oz water almost fills it. Can tell by color especially when held to light.Told D(director) she wanted to see days take homes. that day they were fine but 2 weeks later it's lite. Made a fuss at the win- dow. Think that they would confiscated the dosing bottle? NO. Met 2 times with the Dr., head nurse and stand in D ( reg. D out). Nothing was resolved. It's to be tested it's my $. Today I go in for my 2wk. D. wants to see me b4 dosing. "look you can find another clinic" that was D position! She will rue the day she dissed me. VA pays my fee. Now their involved. I save 10mg for testing only need 3. Extra 4 backup. Find out tomor- row what position (VA) they takes. Will keep u posted.

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I hear ya sister. I just posted about the same thing. That's all the state offers is liquid. Are you in Colorado? If so let me know. I have a plan and DORA is not the place to go unless you can get past the lower level staff. You see they are in bed (so to speak) with the clinics. Your complaint will be filed in the circular file if you call or send a complaint to the first WEB site that DORA has online. What one has to do is to send it snail mail and to have the letter signed for. Attention: Director on the envelope and in the letter. Try to get the name of the director it will be more personable if they are addressed in the letter. Do not put anything other than the facts. Nothing about hardship or other personal items; stay on the subject matter at all times. Make it as professional as possible. Before you put it together write a journal of the effects that the lite doses have on you. Anything that is subjective should be left out. Make it read objectively and be pragmatic. When you write this way they will sit up and pay attention to your complaint. Good luck....Peace

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I am a methadone patient for over 6 years. My wife and I are both on it and we have moved 5 times since we got on methadone, hence we have been to 5 methadone clinics. Everyone I went to was highly regulated ( you couldn't talk to other patients for any reason on the property at one In texas, that was very good ) When my wife and I got to the clinic we are at now, we started to have extreme constipation problems. I talked to dozens of people who told me when I asked," That the nurse shaves the tablets in half taking the part with the cross, and then has a bonding agent he has mixed up to put it on there and then makes a cross in it. I had the idea of giving him money when I got to the window, but he just took it, and then one day just left a dry wafer on the table for me. This man is a criminal. I am just trying to vent really. I have called the DEA and FBI. I was told by an FBI agent when I called that if there was any truth to my story the place would get shut down. I told him I didn't care anymore this man is killing me. But because we live in a state outside the continental US....They do nothing. Some advice if you are on Methadone--NEVER, NEVER move to Hawaii!!!! If you do you will have NO RIGHTS

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The clinic is killing my son. I need to report them.

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No they're not, please explain how they are killing your son ?

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You know this is odd I posted this post about the methadone being shorted it is years later I've still gotten nowhere and am still having a terrible time I as I've said have a plain everyday same food same activities no other meds schedule and there are days I almost puke and it hits so hard I cannot drive then others "most" times it is short and very obviously it is a terrible thing if anyone has anything new please let me know.

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dude what is wrong with u telling someone to sell drugs

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John (# 1) -

There's a nurse that recently switched clinics where she is a dosing nurse. Well, she told a reliable source that she left my clinic because she didn't like the way it was ran and they took a little bit of everyone's methadone!! That's scary. So you know that it can happen?

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