Anyone Heard Of Methadone Clinics Watering Down Methadose? (Page 3)

Anyone heard of methadone clinics "watering down" the methadose? There have been people at my clinic complaining of getting sick in the evening all of a sudden.

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Don't let people tell you it's in your head. It's one thing if you are becoming tolerant but if one day your dose holds and the next it doesn't and others on your clinic are experiencing this someone in the staff could be diverting. Where there is smoke there is usually fire. Health professionals can be addicts too and even though methadone is cheap to buy for a nurse or anyone on staff selling it on the street it's liquid gold....Be careful bring your concerns to the director without other patients to back you up because the first thing that will happen is you will be accused of selling/diverting your methadone.

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I'm wondering how to ptove it and what we can do about it can we ger the chemist charged I think I can prove it

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I been on methadone 12 years n I assure u it does not take long at all for u to get so used to our dose that u need to go up... even10 mg helps but it don't take long at all I can assure u n that's not just my experience its several people I've spoke to at tube clinic I go to experience also

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I am originally from SF but recently got a house up in Redding. I get 27 takehomes a month but dread driving 5 hrs just so they can count the medicine I pay them for out of my own private pocket. I would have transfered to Aegis Chico but they refuse to give more than 6 takehomes at a time, plus they make you see a counselor every week for an hour even if you are private pay. Is there any way to get exempted from bottle count, ie because of employment or ill health? Finally, I have Blue Cross and would really like to find a private dr to handle my dosing needs anywhere between SF and Shasta

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Have you had any help my clinic has been shorting our doses for at least 4-6 years and I still can't figure out how to catch them or get around it in the mean time I'm sick and just want to get right.

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Do you really think addicts will waste their time complaining when their fine not most and not there get your head out of your ass and see humans for what they are

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Have you had any luck I need help cannot continue sick like this

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When I went to bio Med in flint mi I had this problem I could go to one window get my dose and b sick by afternoon then next day get same dose diff window and worked all day my gf is having this problem with them right now

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Apparently Nick you got a medicating nurse taking some you and your girlfriends dose.

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I know how you feel. I've been on methadone 38 years so I know a little about medicating nurses taking part of your daily does. If you can't get anywhere with telling your conselor my suggestion is to go to another clinic, because it's not going to stop.Or you could always have someone put the fear of God in the medicating nurse away from the clinic. I did that once and I started getting my full dose immediately from the same medicating nurse.

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have you considered going to a different clinic,ora facility not affiliated with the one your currently having these issues with??

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Hi Melissa
I get take homes in little clear bottles and I asked why do they put water in the dosage and they said it's the CA law that they have to put a certain amount of water in.
I got home with my TAKE homes and initially the liquid was dark pink and now 4 days later it's light pink?????
Does anyone know what that's all about and what the minimal amount of water they can put

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I get two weeks take homes and on a 100 milg they switched to bottles twice the size of the old bottles ordered by accident in in eight years I've never felt withdrawal until they changed the bottles I no it's nit in my head it don't even taste luke methadone I have all the withdrawal symptoms I was embarrassed to tell the nurse so to make me feel they r gonna make my take homes n front of me cause they pre pour them before I get there I don't like that I was approved for a months with of take homes three years ago in I refuse to take the month worth because there r some days I don't feel good n other days I do but we have a shade nurse that had to resign five years ago for being caught messing wit the medicine now there is all new staff n she is back I finally told someone she said she had fun pouring my doses they said it was unprofessional so I guess I'll c what happens next...

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Wow that opinion is bulls*** and arrogant. Can u explain why 2 different clinics in my state were caught watering the s*** down and the other ones director was caught stealing it? And furthermore, i dosed one day with a nurse FRANCIS poured up my dose with those crappy tubes, she thought i hadn't noticed but apparently she hadn't noticed she didn't have enough to dose me. All it pulled was air and bubbles and looked nowhere near my usual dose. SHE ACTUALLY PASSED IT TO ME THROUGH THE WINDOW. IS THAT PARANOIA OR WHAT? If you can please enlighten me. In Birmingham, Alabama. MANAGED BY COLONIAL GROUP MANAGEMENT. BIRMINGHAM METRO TREATMENT CENTER.

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@Jeff C.,

As I've said before you have no sense. Of course it's cheap for a clinic to buy the methadone but not for a dirty nurse or tech to buy, taking it and shorting clients. (just like is done with pain pills) many employees of clinics have been fired for this. It is often kept quiet so not to discredit the clinic. And please don't call people who are working hard in treatment junkies or other derogatory names. I have not touched another drug besides my methadone for 16 hrs and have the u/a's to back it up. The stigma and misinformation about mmt is getting tired. People that have turned their life around and working, paying taxes and are a productive member of society deserve the benefit of the doubt. We've worked hard to get where we are so don't disrespect us like that. It makes you look very small minded.

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Yeah same thing with consecrated care in Jonesboro Georgia; they are watering that s*** down. I left imy at new day now and I can tell the difference.

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Same thing is happening at my clinic. Who do you report the suspicion of medication tampering to?... There has to be someone who is watching what there doing and checking and testing all of there stock??!!.. I just need the name of who to report it to. Thnks

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Some people say water don't lessen the strength methadone I say it does.

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I've been at the same clinic for 9 months and have had weekend take home for about 6 months now. I just noticed today while the nurse was filling my little take home bottles (this clinic uses the little clear bottles and clear methadone and is dispensed from a little tube) that the bottles had a little bit of clear liquid already in the bottles before the medicine was dispensed. I've never noticed this before and I didn't say anything or ask her anything so as to not call her out in fear of some kind of retaliation or something. Has anyone else ever seen this happen before? She has a little box kind of to the side and out of view from the window. You can see it from our side of the window if you really look but this little box had all the empty bottles that she uses to put the take homes in and every one of those little bottles had a little liquid in them already. Next week I will go to the other window (there are 2) with the other nurse and pay attention to see if she does the same thing. I had a cousin who went to the same clinic and he used to say quite often that he thinks they are watering down their medicine. He ended up getting locked up in the middle of his methadone treatments. He had been getting medicated for months before he was locked up and said he experienced no withdrawal symptoms for the entire 4 and a half weeks he was in jail aside from some minor aches in his legs for the first couple of days but nothing unbearable. That's kind of unusual if you ask me. For a while a couple months back, some nights I would experience minor withdrawal symptoms real late at night like restless legs and other nights I would be fine. I have been on 70 mg. since a week after I started the program.

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How are you going to judge ANYONE, when YOU are just the same as the rest of these so-called "addicts" (that just was want more meds)? Hate to say it and God forgive me for being judgmental, myself. But we should all never forget where we came from.

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