Dropped From 200 Mg Daily Methadone For Pain After 10 Years

I filed a complaint with NY Health Dept and was told a doctor can refuse to treat anyone at anytime as long as they give emergency care. That was a script for a mild narcotic for a month. If I took it as prescribed I would go into a massive withdrawal and would probably result in serious injury. Has this happened to anyone recently?

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Yes, it has happened to quite a few other people recently, because under the new laws, only pain specialists can prescribe such medications long-term for chronic pain treatment.

And the health department was correct, no doctor is obligated to treat you, or to prescribe anything, unless your life is in immediate danger.

Learn more Methadone details here.

The one month prescription of a mild one was supposed to help you, so you'd have time to find a pain management specialist, or seek rehabilitation if necessary.

Have you looked into pain management?

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Verwon; I am unsure whether you presume yourself a lawyer; an M.D. or are simply grandiose and condescending. Your information is most often only partially correct and with your measured self-assured manner of writing You are most certainly making persons scared or suffering or both feel worse than they obviously already do. It is not a law but a recommendation for M.D.'s to follow. A person taking very high doses of narcotics suddenly lowered certainly can have severe withdrawal sx. Severe withdrawal, especially with ETOH has an extremely high morbidity rate. This Dr. did do the appropriate action in prescribing a month of medication so the pt. could hopefully find new tx.-however if what he prescribed as previously stated was significantly lower then this pt. could have severe withdrawal syndrome-please be more careful in your manner and assumptions-they sound quite uncaring and nearly lecturing which again is not helpful to the writer. I may be completely off but if you are a pain pt. with mild pain controlled with low doses good for you. But be more careful speaking/writing to others with severe tolerance or low pain thresholds. Thank You Sue

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