I Am Needing A Doctor Who Prescribes Xanax With Methadone (Page 3) (Top voted first)

I have been on methadone and xanax for 3yrs. and i missed my appointment to the doctor who prescribed my xanax 1mg four times a day but i only needed 3 1mg xanax daily and i'm needing a doctor in the middle tennessee area who feels comfortable with prescribing xanax with methadone.i suffer from severe traumatic axiety and panic attacks and i have tried all the benzo family since i was 9yrs old and nothing helped but the xanax 1mg and if anyone has any information about any doctors that will help me in the middle tennessee area please send a reply thanks

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Re: DrJoeyMDPhD (# 1)

I was on 120 x Xanax 2mg, 120 x Methadone 40mg, and 90 x Adderall 30mg. People do prescribe it, but Methadone sucks as a drug and it was made for hitler (Dolophine).

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Re: Tina (# 2)

It took me 6 days cold turkey off methadone at my house 150 mg then I went into detox and got off the methadone seventh day they gave me suboxone 7 days after methadone use and I do not have precipitated withdrawals I've been on it for almost a month now it's working I've been on methadone for in 10 years and I'm glad to finally be off Xanax cold turkey also I'm still going through it but it's safer to take Suboxone and Xanax then methadone and Xanax I'm just looking for a doctor in the Tampa area

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Re: Tina (# 2)

Sending blessings and love to you both- sounds like a really tricky situation where you need a prescriber with enough empathy to listen to your background and actually want to help ????????

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Re: Abby (# 32)

There's a guy named Dr Joey who will help you. I haven't seen him post recently. My docs have been giving me hard time at my clinic , because I was told that no one could take more than 120 mg a day on a med equivalent to morphine,I was taking 7 30 mg of oxycodone that they had put me on, before that I was taking 30 mg of oxycodone 6 times a day. I have serious scoliosis, cervical and spinal stenosis, my legs are burning. Well, that;s it/

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Re: DrJoeyMDPhD (# 3)

You're probably addicted to pain pills yourself. You act like a cocky arrogant a-hole.

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Re: Patrice (# 19)

Where's this Dr at need a Dr ASAP

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Re: DrJoeyMDPhD (# 3)

You love to call everyone junkies???
I pray no one in your family has an addiction problem....

KARMA
YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR PAIN MANAGEMENT.

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Re: Patrice (# 19)

Who is your Dr if u dont mind me asking?

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Re: DrJoeyMDPhD (# 1)

Why do you assume that this person is a junkie because they take methadone? I’m a chronic pain patient from a motorcycle accident I had at 19 years old which altered my entire life and future.. For several years I was given every single type of schedule 2 narcotics and I found I couldn’t function on them. Because of being “Impaired” I told my pain management doctor about my problems with those heavy duty pain pills and he told me that Methadone might be much better for me. Like you at first I was a hypocrite and said “Isn’t Methadone for heroin addicts?” He said yes but it’s different for patients like you that are suffering from severe pain conditions and I agreed to try it out and it was the best decision I’ve ever made. My quality of life came back to me and I didn’t require those very strong pain medications anymore.. that was 25 years ago and I’m still on it with absolutely no problems or complaints whatsoever and Aside from having to have 6 very invasive major surgery’s over the years and I needed to take schedule 2 pain medications for the post-operative pain and as soon as I’d healed enough I didn’t request or require said prescriptions anymore.. You are a horrible doctor and an especially horrible teacher if you are teaching residency doctors to automatically think that people that are on methadone are all no good junkies and too put everyone into a specific category... SHAME ON YOU!!

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Re: Pat (# 53)

Absolutely 100% We’ll Said my friend.. I told a little bit of my story with Methadone and Valium (213 msg) Methadone and 5mg times two a day. And I am prescribed Restoril 15mg sleep pill with Valium inside of it.. That man whoever he is should be reported on to the hospital that he practices medicine in in the hospital over the teachers residence and interns and get this guy fired.. everything he said in raged me.. Shame on him!!

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Re: My nana (# 55)

NaNa should not be on 4 bars a day? Many seniors shouldn't be taking Xanax, and if they do take it, the smallest amount possible is very prudent. It sounds like this physician seems to know what they're doing, however a 75% reduction can be very hard on NaNa. Perhaps NaNa is a candidate for a drug treatment inpatient program. One that can take you off the medicine slowly and safely, And yes, she does face the possibility of a stroke or seizure in the short term

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Re: Patrice (# 19)

What mg I'm on .5 and my doc won't rise mygs because of methadone and I really need the help

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Re: DrJoeyMDPhD (# 1)

This f***ing guy thinks we believe he’s a doctor. He’s on the Megan’s Law website. The f*** outta here pedo.

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Re: Tara (# 15)

He lost his license for rape of a patient.

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Re: Kannr20 (# 13)

I agree I have leukemia in remission copd is killing me fypromiagia blown disc PTSD high anxiety Trump has any doctor scared of losing there license my doc retired I'm in mo and have been treated horrible by 2 docs so far just got my disability approved now this I'm worried

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I'm a little older than you are. Xanax became so popular that methadone clinics immediately were concerned about its being abused my clients seeking to get high. Xanax is a benzodiazepine and Methadone is a lab-made opiate/opioid. initially developed in Germany because of the shortage of raw materials for morphine; it was named after its favorite user: DOLOPHINE (after Hitler). Methadone doesn't block a benzo high. Those docs and researchers who predicted this were absolutely correct. Xanax is the quickest acting ORAL benzo for daytime use. (Versed and Halcyon work faster, I believe, but they're for use at @ h.s only Even Dr. Feelgood couldn't write for too much of these. Most pharmacists are pretty sophisticated). The only people I'm condemning are those "doctors" corrupt enough to write for both at the same for an addict. I'm a Chief of Psychiatry, so I did my time in General Med and Psych EDs a while back, but our staff knows I'm one Chief they CAN call to the ED in an emergency. I get my hands dirty; don't worry about that. I never stated that Xanax, an unrelated drug, could block the effects of opiates/opioids, with or without the accompanying Methadone.

Btw we have a better benzo for Panic Attack Disorder — Klonopin (clonazepam). a C-IV drug (except in states, like NY, where it's treated as a C-II amphetamine or opiate) reasonable, but not "instant" onset," a long half life which makes twice a day doing practical. (Some do once a day; I prefer BID unless QD actually works.) Not a quick high unless an addict is stupid enough to administer it via other means (all of those fillers, binders and excipients were not meant for IV administration or insufflation). As a physician, I do my job. You obviously have read my post too quickly or simply not closely enough.

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I'm board-certified MD. My state knows it and the DEA know it. If there's any hesitation it is because you can't do a Ddx through this medium. If you really are in the medical world, you'd know that. Hesitation is not a fault; it's caution in action. All good docs question themselves. My Administrative Asst. is an NP with the Prescriptive Privilege and an MSN in Nursing. Feeling a little threatened lately and want see what unfounded dirt you can spread around? I qualify the statements because I don't have the records, the tests, the Hx and THE PATIENT in front of me. Assuming you possess any expertise you'd hesitate too before making a hard-and-fast decision online.

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The only way SAFELY to detox from such a large dose of one or even two Controlled Substances is to taper in-hospital. Junkies can't be rate to "do this at home," with the exception of a few Rx opiate/opioid analgesic addicts who REALLY wanted to stop those meds, This is my business. Early on, I assisted a friend who was running a Methadone Clinic and the incense covered both of us. I know Detox Protocols very well. I approved and sign off of them every day and I've treated a few addicts. (I just don't have time to do as much work in this area as I'd like; I'm recovering from a severe parking garage accident and can't run around the way I used to do.) Meanwhile, what's behind your belligerence A shrink refused to prescribe the drugs you TOLD him, too? Or were you bitten by a Master Psychiatric Social Worker. The advice of a using addict isn't quite worthless, but it's not exactly written in stone. A junkie's world is one lie based on a delusional system confused by what could be any number of organic neurological factors.

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That's a CLASSIC methadone clinic abuse cocktail. I don't know anyone that stupid or gullible to write for Xanax for a junkie on Methadone Main. I was a very common way to somewhat edge the opiate blocked andante high. We train our residents in all specialties NOT to do this, except perhaps for in-patient and as our hospitals' executive Director of Psychiatry, I officially have recommended the SANDOZ generic, lorazepam (Ativan). Other specialists send these patients for psych consultants and we get to say "No!" and explain the reasons. I wrote that meal specially so all of my attendings, residents, Nurse Practitioners could point to it and say, "The Chief won't lets do this. (And I DO NOT permit any orders including methadone and Xanax NOT be honored by our pharmacy or methadone clinic. How stupid do these patients think we are?)

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Anyone who treats addicts know that opiates/opoids and Xanax are a bad com. There are other benzos and even. I never believed in asntihng but called a "she a shave. One, the Clinical Director of our of our units was reluctant about riving me something — I forget what — but she said, "That's dope-fiending behavior. This lead to productive conversation and I realize that I had been doing just that" O(wth the added leverage being the boss; we unfair!) Incidentally I do take meds for Affective Disorders, but I always get new Rxs a few days in advance. Why worry abut a withdrawal robbed iff the only way that will ever happen if of the world ends,

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