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Hi. I need to find help. I am addicted to pain pills and would really like to get off of them. I have tried methadone and it works, i just need help finding a doctor to prescribe it for me. I live in Michigan. If anyone knows could you please help me? I cant go to a clinic because i dont live near one. I live in the upper penninsula but would drive downstate to get a doctor.....

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Can u please let me know what I can do... I live in ny

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Reading all these post's at least let's me know that I am not alone in fighting this never ending battle of finding and keeping a decent Dr. that will prescribe enough Methadone so that I can have some quality of life - which BTW I think everyone deserves. I have recently been kicked out of my PM clinic because one of my urine tests came back with oxycodone in it. The absolute cruel, evil, non-compassionate twist to that is that my PM Dr. was the one that prescribed it for me when I first started seeing her as well as Methadone. It did not work at all for my breakthrough pain so I she gave me Morphine 30mg and they did work so I just kept the rest of the oxy just in case I ever needed it. She never told me that I wasn't allowed to take it and it had actually happened the same way 6 month's ago and I just told her that I had to take a couple of doses of it when I had taken my max of the other 2 med's and she said "ok that's fine"!! So I'm now being denied by all the other PM Dr.'s that I try to see because of this and I didn't do ANYTHING wrong. Anyway - I did come across a website that many of you may find helpful - believe it or not they actually do have a list of Dr.'s that prescribe Methadone + Suboxone and you can tailor the search for your city and state. It's MethadoneDocs.com - Good Luck and I hope it help's.

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I live in suffolk county and would like the name of a dr that will rx methadone cause i don't want to have to go to clinic..not to mention they said they aren't even taking new patients. Suboxone not helping me. I'm assuming you told the other person that cause they need to get into ny or something but I just need the name of the dr so I can make an appt. thanks

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I came on this site for the same reason (it seems) everyone else did: to find methadone to be prescribed to me so I don't have to do the daily clinic thing. I don't think any of us are going to have any luck. Everyone has turned to suboxone. The reason I want a prescription to methadone instead of suboxone is the cost. One sub film is $7-8 and are usually prescribed 2-3 a day. A 90 count of 10mg methadone tablets are only $20. If I find any helpful info I will pass it on and would appreciate if you all do the same, but good luck to us all in this matter because it's not going to be easy.

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Really!? I don't think you or anyone else should be judging someone without first knowing their personal situation. I myself am a chronic pain patient that depends on methadone to function on a daily basis. Believe me when I say I would much rather not have this daily pain so that I wouldn't need to take any pain medicine. Not everyone that is taking pain meds are doing so for a buzz. Many of us are taking pain meds strictly for relief from pain, so that we can work, take care of our children and household, and to just function and maintain our daily tasks. Like I said before you have no right to judge when you don't know someone's situation and you sure don't have the right to tell someone that they don't have the right to pain relief!

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hey i live in new york and im lookinh for a doctor to prescribe methadone for maintenance, ive been on the clinic before but its too much of a hassle....if you know any doctors that prescribe it like that please let me know !! email me at xxxxx@xxx {edited for privacy}

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First of all you are the pathetic one people get addicted by taking meds they need. Second methadone does not get you high it helps stablize people that have need addicted to dangerous drugs. And does wonders for people trying to live a new way of life . I can tell your very ignorant for not knowing that addiction is a disease that people ate born with. Addiction is a disease and drugs money work sex or food and ect are the symptoms. Read a book and have yourself a pity party .

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I can get to new York. I live in Middletown, about one hour from nyc. I am desperately seeking methadone.. I have called hundreds of numbers. The two local clinics have waiting lists months long. My doctor can't help me! She says I need to get on methadone now. If I can't find a clinic or doctor that can prescribe It I'm going to wind up dead put in jail. I'm at the end of my rope. I have severe pain and was on suboxone for 3 years. Out just stopped working for me. My doctor was giving me 100mcg fentanyl patches and dilaudid. Now she says I need methadone and printed me out s list of doctors and clinics none of which can help. If anyone can help me I will be forever in your debt. I've lost my home and my family my life is next. I need to get on methadone now please help. -t

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Thank you so much, how much is he? I'm broke an one day new to dan diego. I'm sick bad. xxxxx@xxx {edited for privacy} please

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Hi My name is haley. I am living in the boston area and am desperate for a doctor who prescribes methadone. I go to a clinic but I can't do it and find work. I just need a doctor and I am willing to pay to see the doctor. I have masshealth. This medication has saved me from severe pain otherwise I would try to get off of it. I have been on methadone for two years. I hope someone knows. please help me!

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U mentioned being able to help someone in an 09 post if they could make it to ny a couple times a month. I am in Long Island and need to switch off of the methadone clinic into a private pain management setting or figure something els out it is holding me back I can't tell you how many opportunities I have had to pass up. I tried to detox myself recently but ended up walking back to the clinic with my tail between my legs because the withdrawals were so strong including blood pressure through the roof. I have 8 pins in my right foot and back problems.

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Hey man,
I am in a VERY similar position, and also live on LI.
Wondering if you found a solution, I am looking for a new doctor or just someone to help!
If you have any advice, it'd be much appreciated

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I see that your message is from 2009, so I'm guessing it may not be relevant anymore, but I am in the same situation you were in, feel for you and also wonder where you ended up going. I too live in BK (downtown) and desperately need to make the switch from Suboxone (20 mg/day) to Methadone. Before I "cleaned up," I was a chronic pain patient and wildly abusing meds and buying extras. But even the psych and dr at the Coney Island detox I went to felt I would NOT do well on Suboxone and should be on Methadone Maintenance. I've gotten that a lot. My current psych, whom I've been with for years is now Rx'ing the sub. He is in Westchester. It is a hassle but I went through HORRID experiences seeking and maintaining a sub script in the city and was forced to accept unconscionable abuse from providers because it is so damn hard to find another. ESPECIALLY when you are in withdrawls and suffer from extreme depression and anxiety (I was forced to give up my anxiety meds of ten years, which I NEVER abused in a WEEK and was fed that line about the mix causing life threatening seizures. The benzos were still showing up in my pee tests for TWO MONTHS after detox and it became very clear what their real concern is).

I have never felt so defenseless and dangerously anxious as I did while being accused of taking meds that I wasn't and still needed! I felt like an anvil was going to fall out of the sky and became scared to leave my apt. So yeah, I had enough trouble for a lifetime dealing with all that and was and am not always able to be as proactive as I was on oxy and keep searching out better doctors, let alone methadone clinics.

There is definitely not one in walking distance of my apt. And my anxiety that I am going to travel a bit to one and then be treated as the piece of amusing s*** that Coney Island's out-patient staff treated me as , has really got my anxiety coursing. It would also be really nice to not be the only white girl from the suburbs, as has consistently been the case in all the treatment I have sought in NYC. I can and do easily relate to and get along with most everybody, but I will forever have scars from what I went through at places where that was the case bedside the counselors and doctors seem to single me out and exact some bizarre revenge, no matter how sweet and obedient I am. I do not like my medication to be treated like a weapon. And it was. By people who were keenly aware of how badly we suffer before we crawl to them. So, as f***ed up as this may sound, if I have to go to a Methadone Clinic, I prefer it be one where I see myself represented in numbers. Simply to avoid the twisted punishments enacted upon me at my most vulnerable by people in power.

Does that exist in Brooklyn? Should I try Manhattan? Beth Isreal? Does insurance ever cover clinics? I know mine (Oxford) would not cover the excellent full treatment program I had wanted to go to there. I tend to run into this weird subsystem where I am not allowed the free or cheap payment options at places because I have insurance. But my family scrapes together for that because I have so many health problems. I myself am not working and destitute. I do not receive social services yet, tho I have a host of doctors and psychs on-board to help should I take the leap. I also have my accomplished psych and therapist ready to vouch for me as to why methadone is the better choice for me. The new and useless pain management doc didn't agree because I am not 110 and mostly dead. It falls on deaf ears when I relay just how hard it is to function and be "normal." I was top notch when I had new opiate scripts, but my tolerance eventually became that of an elephant and it took over every cell in my brain. I'm surprised I didn't lose my liver or kidneys to the Tylenol alone. I eventually stepped up to H, but either it wasn't that good or I AM an elephant. It made me noddy more than stimulated. And it was through a friend and just one unreliable dealer. I never slammed. He never answered his phone. My friend stabbed me in the back. I -allegedly- nodded in a bagel with lox in front of my entire family and there were severe consequences. My new relationship with bundles fizzled.

I have not touched it since, but had my boyfriend waiting with percs in hand after my hospitalizations. And i have tried and tried to punch through Suboxone with mid level pain killers, but even after six days, that mother was still bound to the receptors. Or does sub raise your tolerance? Either way, it is a kick ass deterant, as most of us give up trying to override it, or never even do that, and it boggles my brain as to WHYYYY it is SO hard to get a sub doc and why it is so psychotically regulated.

Anyway, any guidance from anyone on here is so very welcome. Please don't tell me horror stories about methadone or not to take it and how I am a weak, evil person if I do.....unless you want me to fed ex you my soles. I know what I am dealing with and if one more pain doctor says, "but your so young!!! I'm applying to med school just to put some compassionate non-paranoid health care out there.

Thank you so much and many blessings~*~*

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there is a methadone clinic in elgin , they just opened and they are realy nice people it is 77 a week here is the address for anyone looking for a place to go the name is mathers clinic and the phone number is 815-701-4231 585 n. tollgate rd ste e elgin il 60125 and if you go can you please tell them janice and scott sent you. hope i can help someone out

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Why are you on this forum. You seem to like trolling people that actually want help. Calling people junkies that just want their next fix is really pathatic. Drug addiction is an illness that is hard to overcome and these people are looking for help which in my view makes them stronger than a loser looking to put people down.

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You are a sick, twisted, evil person to even be able to come up with this ridiculous post. If you were educated at all on methadone you would know that when on a maintenence and strictly only taking mehadone, not any benzos or anything like that you don't get ANY euphoria whatsoever!! So before you post on a site that you have no clue about the material on it, do your yourself a favor and go do some research!!! One more thing for you to talk about addicts and put them in one group of individuals, know that their are some, for that matter a lot of addicts and alcoholics that fight everyday just to get another day clean, its not about getting the next free high or whatever you said! Last but not least, only God can judge and when your time comes for that judgement day I would love to be there and see your wrath! Just one more thing, God Bless you and I hope it don't take something tradgic in your life to make you realize you are wrong! What goes around comes around, Karma is one B**** I don't mess with, and from the looks of it you have yours coming, so good luck and peace out!

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Hey man, im in ny and need methadone. I have allergic reactions to suboxone & thats all they wanna give me. Help me if u can bro

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Smh

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I live in Long Island N.Y. Do You know any private Drs. In long Island

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Where in NY Long Island is there aDr. that perscrijbes Methdone

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