Cannot Get My Methadone Script Filled In Jacksonville Florida (Page 2)
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Because the DEA is Treating pharmacies like drug Dealers and blocking their supply chain, I cannot find any Pharmacy in Jacksonville FL. That has it in stock. My Doctor has Be practicing medicine for over 30 years & I've been under his care for 8 years. And never used to have any problem getting my medication, but now the DEA is Treating big pharmacies like CVS just like Drug Dealers. So the sick disabled People living in Chronic pain are suffering. This will never Change. Made if Enough People call their Senators and Congress People and complain every day it might work. I've been doing it I Wish more People would do the same. Something has got to Change. If you are not having a problem. Get ready the DEA is more powerful now than Ever before. PLEASE help

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Who should I write? What is the address. I would like to join in the effort. It isn't right the way the DEA has gone about this. They shouldn't be making health care decissions for for us. Tell me where to call / write & I will gladly go forth. I am about to loose my job because I am unable to function with the day in & day out pain. Which will put me on Government Aid or Services (Food Stamps / Welfare / Medicade ect...) That is ridiculous. As it is I take care of my self & family with no help from the government. That will change simply because the DEA has decided to restrict the distribution of medication my doctor has given me for over 5 years.

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I've been prescribed methadone for chronic pain for over 5 years. Suddenly no one will fill my prescription. My Doctor has practiced for over 20 years.He's still one of the few to make house calls to the poor & elderly. I've never done anything illegal with my medication. I follow the rules. One Doctor & one pharmacy. Recently the pharmacy I have used put new regulations in place so I am forced to locate a new pharmacy. They did this because of the pressure from the DEA who kept cutting back on the amount of medicine they were allowed to order & or receive. For 18 days & countless pharmacies later I still cannot get my medication. With a broken back & several other auto accident injuries I am almost to a point where I may loose my job because I am unable to function. The DEA should not have the power to take away the judgement of a Doctor to treat his patience in the way he deems necessary.

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do u have the numbers we can call to complain??? ive been searching for almost 3 wks now and been on this medication since 2003 and same dose at that and same doctor which is a shands dr and ofcourse legit.. cvs has been filling this one for past 5mths now all sudden telling me they cant to call 1800shopcvs but then all they tell me is its up to the pharmacist..WTH...

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I am also having the same problems as all of you but I am also running for City Council in Jacksonville. I think it is very messed up with the DEA is doing to people that need pain medications for legitimate reasons. just a few bad eggs made it horrible for everybody that needs payment so everybody vote for SCOTT POWERS

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I am having the same problem as all of you! I have had 3knee reconstructions and need my pain meds for a good quality of life. I know how you feel and that's why I am going to run for Congress or senate here! I am a Jacksonville native and my name is Scott powers So vote for me on the ballot. tell all of your friends as well.

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Have u made any process with this problem. I have been taking methadone for 13 years and now I'm in fla and can't get my script filled by anyone. Please help! I am a legitimate patient who has had 3 back surgeries and have been taking the same low dose of methadone, which helps with the pain without any side effects. I don't know what to do?

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Hello found this site by trying to find out where else to go myself, Ive been on methodone for about 10 years now, to top matters off my Dr. of 13 years had to let me go due to the new laws, He isnt in pain mgmt any longer, Found a new Dr but 30 miles away, he cut me down no biggie, but went in 2 weeks ago to find out he had been fired! New Dr treated me like a drug addict off the street, Didnt care about my pain, had the nerve to show me his mri and tell me he ist taking any thing and why i needed it! talking about a melt down i had, Dr started bad mouthing my proir Dr,, I had a panic attack right in his office he didnt care, he has cut me back now to hardly nothing! Wants me to take a blood pressure pill for withdrawls, I was like is this guy for real? yes he is!!! now i cant even get the script filled here, it started getting bad for me about 5 months ago but now no one even knows the new Dr, which im trying to get back in to the group where my arriginal Dr was at but it all takes money which is why im so Livid, We now have a methodone clinic here in Naples and as long as you take them 16 dollars a day you get up to 250 dose per dose but yet every one can go there but yet some one whos trying to work and carry on a great productive life can no longer get a legit prescription filled here!! THIS IS CRAZY

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Yes Smart pharmacy is one of the few pharms now taking ADVANTAGE of this medication 'shortage, unavailability' whatever you want t call it, yet act as if they really are here for us the ppl the customers. But heres their real motive /scheme. I also found them a few monts ago. I was in the same situation as many of you here. They agreed to fill methadone for me if I transferred 2 non narcotic prescriptions to them. I of course agreed and even transfered my most expensive ones. (Well I have ins so I didnt know at that time just how much they charge for medication compared to other pharmacies.....

Anyway....yes they required me to split my prescription into two prescriptions and come every 2 weeks or every 15-17 days to fill. BECAUSE.... the pharmacist explained the DEA ONLY ALLOWED THEM TO DISPENSE A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TABLETS AT 1 TIME. For me that # is 140. Ill just bet that number is different for that other poster above since I think I read he gets 160 each time. And heres why. Its NOT what the DEA allows them to do, its what MY INSURANCE COMPANY WILL PAY FOR. You see, prior to going to Smart I was paying cash, my ins didnt cover my medication. But I wasnt complaining because compared to other meds $53 a month was a great deal to me. I was happy to have my meds and go without cable.
Well Smart looked over my info, and discovered just what amount of tablets my ins WOULD cover, and gave me that BS story and sent me back to my Dr to circumvent the system, to have me ask/require him to rewrite the prescription so they could get paid MORE MONEY. They now charge my ins company twice a month $120 or more per presciption. When I was making tese changes I never knew ins was involved though. Not until I filled and WASNT CHARGED!! That is when I started putting it all together. My ins wont pay for all the tabs together in 30 days but they will pay for half that amout every 17 days!!!
AND......THIS WEEK They informed me they could no longer fill my methadone UNLESS I transfer ALL OF MY MEDICATIONS TO THEM!! Because the DEA requires them to do this. Oh, btw they dont want me to transfer my Percocet prescription to them.She didnt say why. She just said "you can just leave that at such and such but you must transfer all of your others to us in order to fill here.

I heard through the grapevine they CANT, NOT WONT, fill Oxy or Roxycodone containing medication because theve been santioned for selling Compounded Roxycodone caps and Manufactured Roxycodone tabs. As a Pharmacy, you are only allowed to do one or the other so now they can do NONE. SO if you go to Smart, prepare for THAT, and to at some point be forced/blackmailed/threatened into sending all of your business to them. They are in no way convenient for me. I already beg a ride twice a month. Id have to go every week almost for all other meds! They deliver but it $3 per med. Im interested if anyone else has this experience with Smart Pharmacy in Jacksonville Fl ans what THEIR amount of tabs is they get filled.
Id like to file a complaint with the Fl Board of Pharmacy im soo sick of these schiesters messing with us.

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i was on methadone for 13 years, lived in pa then moved to tenn. the pain dr. in tenn discharged me b/c i didnt want anymore back injections so i was on my own. couldnt find a dr. anywhere to help me. finally had to go to a suboxone clinic, pay $200 a week cash for 2 months, I tapered myself off.unfortunately i am still in severe pain. wtf is going on in this country with pain management?

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Same problem no drs if you find a dr willing to help no pharmacies will fill. If by chance they do as I found 3 months ago theyll come up with latest scam of requiring yo to transfer All meds to them. But they only fill certain narcotic meds not all kinds. Methadone Not any oxy containing medication or roxy. Theyve been disciplined. Smart Pharm. They are th most expensive and farthest from me. Plus they make you come twice a month to fill pain meds. Stating DEA wont allow them to fill onl certain amount at one time when actually they discover what the max is your ins will pay then have you go back o dr and have him write prescription that way .
Now they say they wont fill my pain meds unless I transfer ALl meds to them after first requiring me to transfer 2. And I did....gladly at first and high dollor prescriptions at THAT.
IM FILING A COMPLAINT WITH FLORIDA BOARD OF PHARMACY

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My pain management doctor has advised me to write to state reps and anyone pertain to human suffering. Sad very sad and what sucks is if we were animals they'd put us down. They knew that the baby boomers were aging. Change is needed , I pray I really pray every day in hopes that enough people will pick up the pen because it's my sword and fight for our rights this is the first time in the history of America and Americans did not go up against the government when the government was wrong

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can you give me the information to contact these offices?

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This thread is over a year old. It's now July 2014.
What is the current status of filling Cii prescriptions (methadone, etc.) in north east Florida? Is there still a problem?
Also, I have recently moved back to the Duval area, and need the names of some pain mgmt doctors. Findley dismissed me as a patient suddenly for no reason, and Garg is just ridiculously expensive.
The methadone clinic is now $16 a day! Again, ridiculously expensive, for a medication that is very affordable to fill at a pharmacy. If you can fill it.
Please let me know what's up in Jax...!

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Hello Everyone,

Chronic Pain Patients have severe, ongoing pain, that won't go away, with no chance of relief, except for strong medications. But, now, "The War on Drugs," doesn't just go after the drug cartels and illegal drug smugglers and abusers, they are focusing on real patients, with chronic pain, suffering terribly, yet are now thought as drug abusers.

We are all losing our doctors and/or our strong medications, which makes our lives more bearable from the intense pain we are suffering. I read so many posts of people who have lost their doctors and medications, I've decided to start a petition, which will not only go to the politicians, in my state, but going to the DEA, the FDA and to all the politicians and President of the US, to make aware of our sufferings. There are 100 million chronic pain patients, in this country and we are being treated less humanely than animals. We are being treated like drug addicts, or junkies!

I am mad and you should be too. Our human rights are being taken away from us, they are using the excuse that we are overdosing ourselves, but the reality is, many of us are committing suicide, to get away from our pain. Those numbers will go up, if they don't turn things around and let us have our doctors, our medications, we all badly need. Please, sign this petition, help me get the word out, we need to make everyone away of the challenges we are faced with.

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-judgement-of?source=c.em.cp&r_by=10582339

Thanks!

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The FDA has been in meetings as far back as 2012 probably further. Calling chronic pain patients an epidemic of abuse of opiates and the like so much so it is over taking even street drugs. What they want or have already accomplished is to diminish our pain as simply nothing more than a mild headache. We are all screwed.

They are trying or may have already succeeded. To ONLY ISSUE OPIATES TO CANCER PATIENTS.

what the FDA and DEA do not understand or care! Is the human body can only endure so much pain for so long before we reach a breaking point. That breaking point will only send the chronic severe pain suffering patient to do one of two things as we reach that break point. Either take our own lives to get out of the pain or seek help on the streets.

The FDA AND DEA, do not see the future as fact. These people sitting behind a desk, having meetings should actually only include those who are severe pain sufferers themselves in order to make any sort of a decision on something these healthy body individuals can't understand, if they did they would not be doing and making decisions for us the patient Dr.s who have taken an oath to care for a patient or tell a pharmacy your ordering too many opiades.

I say in all my posts. President Kennedy was a chronic pain sufferer, he had a dr by his side for pain inj's. and such. If he were alive I believe he would not allow this. In my eyes the FDA n DEA is in essence calling our beloved president Kennedy a drug abuser. He was a person first, he was no different than we are.

The true pain patient does not abuse the prescriptions given, we are subject to drug panels, to verify what is prescribed is in our system at the levels prescribed. With all safe guards in place, there is NO valid reason to shut us out.

Unfortunately by doing so lives will be lost by our own hands, or we will take to the streets for help and trust a stranger hoping what is being bought is not going to kill us but elevate the horrible pain we suffer daily, some will die from doing such a desperate act.

The FDA AND DEA do not understand that desperate breaking point and could really care less. We have NO quality of life without these medications. These medications from schedule 3 to schedule 2 let us have some sort of quality of life. We are able to get out of bed, some are able to work, play with our children sit in a car for more than 10 minutes at a time.

I know the desperation I speak of through experience, I never wanted to take a pill. I believed anyone and everyone. I put my life in the hands of a dr who said he would have me 90% better in 6 months. Holistic way. I did it, often throughout I would have to go to the emergency, very often because I reached the breaking point. 6 months, this dr lied, refused to prescribe I could not keep going to emergency as funds are short. I finally found myself in my car in front of a telephone pole. I could not take the pain, the human body can only handle so much, it's physical becomes emotional leads to despair and I just needed to have the pain STOP. on the phone crying, I was talked out of driving into That pole and was promised a dr would help me. If not for him, I would not be typing this. He saved my life, that was 8 years ago. I would not have met my granddaughter, or be able to take my disabled veteran husband to the va for help. My children would have been left without a mother.

Now, he is running scared, I am afraid, I will soon be in front of the telephone poll once again to rid the pain.

We are human beings, not a statistic, not a fool on the street who's robbed a pharmacy from the inside. This is how the pills are in the streets. Robbery, raids, out of the country smuggling. We are not the problem.

If I die. The blame will fall on the heads of the FDA AND DEA for there lack of putting a face a medical history a human beings suffering. I am not a number. I am in pain. I have a name a family. Who can only handle endure so much pain before breaking point.

My headstone will read loving mother wife, taken before her time by the hands of the FDA and DEA who refused her the proper medical care she desperately needed. The FDA & DEA took her from us as a statistic.

Lisa

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I got the same mess from WInn Dixie, but not for methadone. I am on another class 2 drug and they refused to fill. If you live in Jacksonville, FL, go to Duval Pharmacy. They have 2 locations. They are part of the Good Neighbor Pharmacies and they do go out of their way to help customers. I've had no problems since I switched all my meds to them.

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Winn Dixie has found some stupid reason not to fill my prescription now for the past two years. I filled my prescriptions there for 8 years before this recent trend. I went in this past monday and they said they would have my Methadone on Wed the 3rd? I showed up on thursday morning, they had it and then refused saying that"We do not fill this dr.s' prescriptions" They allways find a way!

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Hi everybody. I started my own thread earlier today, but maybe I'll have better luck getting a response in an already established thread such as this. Located in Jacksonville, Fl. I was on oxys for about 2 years and 8 months ago voluntarily got myself into a suboxone program. Couldn't deal with the suboxone because of the headaches so I was immediuately switched to subutex. Great for withdrawls and does make the pain more manageable, but because my insurance only agreed to cover the subutex / suboxone for one year, I've been considering MMT. My current subs doc and his nurse are great, but based on previous conversations I've had with the nurse, it doesn't seem that the doc is big on scripting methadone. I know that if/when I have to get off subs, I will go back to painkillers because I do have legit bulging and degenerative disc back issues. Any recommendations on a good methadone doc in Jax that someone could recommend? I would GREATLY appreciate it. thanks.

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yes the elderly and disabled, like my brother, whose body is torn up and he is in constant pain, why does everyone have to pay the price, the withdraws can kill you when u have been on these kind of meds so long and they just take it away, it's genecide, get rid of the poor elderly and disabled save this country will solve a lot of financial problems, makes me sick

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yes its not just Jacksonville its as far south as MIAMI. No one has Methadone its impossible to get any schedule 2 narcotics for pain. Its due to the quack Dr.s who abused the system and Oxycodone was the predicessor of Oxycontin which caused so many overdoses then the addicts went to 30mg Oxycodone and the DEA went nutso stopped the quantity of what pharmacys could get. Now its everything else and when will it stop. My Doctor who requires me to have drug checks and regulates my timing not a day too soon for a refill. Now I am holding the rx script of methadone no where in the market to get it filled. I am on pain meds dilaudid and methadone for a severe cervical and lumbar back injury. He want to switch me to subuxone this scares me he said I will be sick for a day with withdraw etc....for all you who knows what this is like. It makes you want to shoot yourself the pain is too much.

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