Posted by sally green on June 11, 2002, at 7:44:54
In reply to Re: opioid stuff and dealing with doctors » shelliR, posted by Elizabeth on February 15, 2002, at 11:12:37
Hi Liz:
First, Buprenex is approved by the USFD Administration for the use in people with pain related problems. There are many sites offered by the USDA and DEA describing the leagl aspects of Buprenex. I too was addicted to Oxy's. I have a 20 year long history of pain and surgeries. There are doctors using this drug for detox!! ILLEGAL!! Watch them!! make sure if you are going to a clinic or doctor who prescribes this drug for detox that they have an Investigational New Drug Certificate. This certfictae forces these doctors to detox people and makes them acountable for supplying the appropriate agencies with documentations and statistics about detox success. I have friends attending a clinic where these people are lying about their being allowed to use Buprenex for detox. They are getting addicts, addicted to Buprenex, turning all of them into pain management patients and they are on this detox, that was supposed to take a max of 6 weeks, for many years! This is truly a shame!!
Furthermore, Oxycotin is very addictive! Psycologiaclly as well as, physically. There are many topics related this issue on the web!
These addictions need mental counseling. That is the main issue, behavorial modification, which almost every program for detox lacks, including methadone. I know people who spend the rest of their lives on Methadone! What kind of detox is that? A way for the government to keep making big bucks at the expensive of the addict!
Sally
> > Elizabeth, easy for you to say. You seem to continue to find doctors who will prescribe it for you. I have one guy who was prescribing oxycontin who wouldn't let me try bupe and another doctor who thinks all opiates are evil--thinks I'll become just as addicted to bupe as oxy. Maybe she's right. I don't even know any more. Just like to try it.
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> Do you really think you were truly addicted to oxycodone? That wasn't my impression. Anyone who takes oxycodone regularly, as you did, will become pharmacologically dependent on it (it might be that this doesn't always happen to people taking it for depression; I'm not sure). That's a normal reaction, not a pathological one. Addiction is when people start having cravings, doing things to get drugs that they would never do otherwise, and so forth.
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> Anyway, I didn't mean to trivialize your problems finding a doctor, and I'm sorry if that's how it came across. Believe me, I do know how hard it can be, and I'm not sure what to suggest. How did you find the guy who prescribed the OxyContin? I'd expect doctors to be more leery of that (especially with the recent bad publicity) than of buprenorphine.
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> I'll think on it and let you know if I come up with any ideas other than those that have been mentioned. I'm very sorry that you're stuck in this situation; it's quite scary not to know how you can get the medication you need. I really do hope that you can figure out a way to treat your depression.
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> As always, you have my best wishes.
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> -elizabeth
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