Methadone And Drug Testing

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My husband has been on methadone for 8 months at 10-15 mg per day. He recently has gotten put on probation and has to come off of it. How long will it take him to show up clean on a drug test?

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Does anyone know how long the withdrawal symptoms and going to last or how to ease them?

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Tell him to keep going, his probation can't make him get off if he has a prescription. He can tell them to lick his nuts. It fills under the disability act

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He kept taking it, failed his drug test and they VIOLATED him! Now he is on his way to jail and his lawyer won't help. The lawyer said he's done with the case. This place doesn't care about law or human rights. It's all about money and how much of it that they can stick you for. My family is doomed without my husband. I hate this place and these stupid "law people".

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That is completely bulls*** and illegal. If he is on a treatment program they cannot violate him. I hope it's not just letting this go. So so so f***in illegal.

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I hate to hear about your situation with your husband. while every state is different, I can say that I know this for a fact that just because you have a prescription does not mean the probation officer has to allow you to take the medication. I have seen this happen to multiple people who have ended up either on probation, parole, or in a drug court program. I have seen people who were on long-term pain medication for issues like back surgeries be denied the ability to take their medicine even though it was prescribed by a doctor and determined medically necessary even if they were on the medicine for years they still were not allowed to take narcotics of any kind. The options given to them were stay on probation or in drug court and stop taking your medicine or finish out your jail time without medication anyway. People yet highly confused over those situations because they think if it is prescribed by a doctor that the court systems have to allow them to take it and this simply is not true. They may allow someone to take a narcotic for a very short time. For a specific issue like a surgery or an injury but only for a very short time.

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Yes if on drug court or something. But regular probation they can't take it if u have a Dr script. Only if they find abuse or evidence of illegal doings with your meds

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I've been on methadone for 8 years and I've been on and off probation the whole entire time and they cannot legally violate you for being on methadone. Even if you were not on it when you started probation and then got on it they cannot legally violate you. You really need to find another attorney. Go to the clinic and get all the paperwork you can because that's where I've gotten all my paperwork. I had a PO try to do the same thing to me. It cannot be done as there are laws and privacy acts that cover you.

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Re: Kiki (# 7) Expand Referenced Message

What state are you in? I'm having the same issue. I had a baby and got hooked on pain meds after being clean for 3 years. So I started the clinic, a year after being on probation already. So I'm scared it's going to show up, but if I tell him I was addicted to my prescription so I got into treatment, would that work? I'm so scared.

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