Methadone Doctors In Nj (Page 2) (Top voted first)

im looking for a doctor that priscribes methadone. i dont want to go the clinics. suboxone does not work for me and i really want to get off of oxycodone. my boyfriend has been clean for 4 months now. and from my car accident and i also have nerve damage, it makes it harder for me to get off, because im in so much pain. i tryed many times to stop, but i cant handle the pain. i lost everyone i loved and i dont want to lose my boyfriend to.

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Where in Bergen County is he located? I am very interested in possibly making an appointment,I am just trying to find the correct doctor. A good one, one who will listen to me talk and understand the difficulties of withdrawl. I do not even enjoy doing/taking anything, I just simply do not want to feel sick - the pain of my injuries I am sure I can handle, I just cannot take the withdrawls - especially when I am at work and I have a very good job. A car accident is what got me addictied and no doctor at that time ever told me how I would suffer coming off of opiates. I just want this stage of my life over with! All help and reccomendations is SO SO GREATLY appreciated! So please anyone with advice, I am all ears!

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my husband had severe back problems and other problems as well he has been any and all medicine it never helps for long, we heard that methadone last several hours and he is willing to try it for some type of relief. He took his self off all other medicines because they were not working that well and he felt he was just doing damage to his liver are there any doctors that presribe this for pain mangement because he is not a addict.

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I think he's in Hackensack now. He's an anesthesiologist and pain management Dr.

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I go to ARS in Mays Landing, NJ. I was on the 2nd highest phase (phase 5) due to be on the highest phase (phase 6) - which alone takes a year to get from 5 to 6. On 5, I only had to go 1x every 2wks & didn't have to do any groups. I came into some major health issues the very beginning of June. Been in & outta 4 different hospitals in 2 states for a total of 13/14 visits. Have been to drs, neurologists, had a butchered spinal tap & 2 days later had to get a blood patch (July 21 & 23). I got a call for a bottle check & explained that I cudnt come in for it & explained everything. Id gotten to the point I cudnt even talk or walk! My eyesight is much worse & my eyes r going lazy. Im in & have been in so much pain. It's terrible. I havent been able to drive since june 4th. They said it was ok & to let my counselor know wat was going on. I had to go in a cpl days later so I was gonna go in & tell her what's up - since I had sat on the phone w nursing for like 20mins explaining what was going on, they knew what was up already. As soon as i go in I have a stop on me. Get pulled into a rm & every phase was taken away... I have a terrible counselor (who not only I but many ppl feel is racist towards white ppl). Every session I have w her I have to talk while she bulls*** w her phone & then when I finished sayin what's going on w me or my life or health kr w.e. She's like is that it? & then tells me to leave. No counseling or any kind what so ever. She's always had a tribe attitude towards me. She doesn't even really look at the paperwork I brought in, twists up things I say, & rather than being my advocate & fighting for me she's done nothing but advocate against me! I haven't failed drug panels for anything I wasn't prescribed (I'm on Adderall xr (& have been since I was 16) & I had gotten Fioricet w caffeine & codeine when I was having the spinal headaches after the tap. & I've been put on Neurontin & Baclofen for what's going on w me. Any new meds they'd give me that I'd tried n didn't work or wud make me feel worse, even if I wasn't on em long, I brought em all in. After the 30 days of my phase loss I met w the "Doctor" there (Dr. Harris).

I spent DAYS getting every piece of medical paper I had organized in a binder. Highlighted dated, diagnosis, meds given, overview of symptoms ect. I had separate folders for every hospital, for drs & specialists, for medications. I even wrote down on a piece of paper every date & hospital/apt/outpatient procedure so he didn't have to go thru every pg looking for dates n s*** (since I had it all organized by hospital & stuff). He literally told me "I don't need to see that" about ALL of it. He just wanted to see the proof of medication for why I failed for barbiturates (Cus of the Fioricet). Then he spent the entire "visit" (after being over an hr late) talking about how he wants to call my dr to get me taken off of the addies & put on a non-stimulant. Which I'm like #1 I've been on this since I wss 16. & #2 why wud u even think about trying 2 get me off of something like that when I'm going thru all of the neurological, nerve, muscle, spinal issues that I am rn!? It's madness! They have no intentions of giving me any of my phases back. He said I cud present my case to the treatment team, but then never allowed me to. So now I have to go everyday, in pain, which makes it all worse. What's going on with me has been debilitating.

They think I have a Demyelinating Disease (which is s*** like MS & ALS). Tho it can't be MS bc the muscle is being eaten from my body to the bone. Rapidly. Which then makes the pain so much worse. Esp in certain areas (like my left hand & arm) where there's already little muscle & a lot of nerves & it's something that's used & moved a lot. I've literally had times where my left arm went completely dead for HOURS! They expect me to do a 1.5hr group every week on top of going everyday. On top of the fact that I still can not drive... I NEED to find a dr that can prescribe me.the methadone pills or a way to get my phases back. Bc I physically can not handed to go there everyday & deal with all of the bulls*** that's constantly being dished out to me from them. Mainly all my counselors doing... I don't care how far I have to drive. I'm only on 25mg bc b4 all of this started happening I was detoxing. Had been for a long time.I was up to 135mg. I was soooo close to being off of this & then I had to stop the detox bc my body cudnt physically handle it anymore... I don't know what to do anymore.

The mental & physical & emotional toll of everything I'm dealing w with just my health alone has brough me to the edge many times already. That's not even including all the bs that I'm dealing w the clinic & people there. It's terrible. Once they moved the location to mays landing they got like 90% new staff & EVERYTHING went down hill rapidly. Not only for me but for MANY patients there that r unfairly having their phases taken away (esp higher phases) to nothing... which then creates lines out of the building that make it harder 4 me to handle bc standing for any prolonged time makes my pain worse. Esp since my butchered spinal tap at shore memorial Hospital (which he did the spinal tap while I was laying on my STOMACH, hit nerves so bad I was screaming, shaking, & hyperventilating & didn't adjust at all, & barely numbed me & didn't even allow the lidocaine to set b4 he went rite in! He had an open IV port & didn't sedate me when I was shaking & hyperventilating (knowing I have asthma), & screaming as my body wud arc to a V when he was jamming my siatic nerves, nothing... so I've had much more pain in the Lower part of my back, esp the silica (I believe that's the name of it) muscle that goes from ur lower back to the top of ur butt, so standing for prolonged periods can be very painful)... this ENTIRE experience has been a nightmare. I was in so much pan having to go to the clinic the day after my blood patch that I was LAYING on the floor in the waiting rm waiting to get called back to get dosed. & anyone who goes to a clinic knows those floors r disgusting. But I was in THAT much pain... I don't know what to do anymore. I can't keep doing this tho. I've been over 7yrs clean off of opiates. I'm not the same person I was almost a decade ago. Yet I'm being treated like a scumbag who just walked in off the streets, noddin out, & decided to stick the place up! So please, if ANYONE can help me; whether thru advocacy or referring me to a dr that prescribes methadone. Please, help me. {edited for privacy}... Thank You.

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It's hard but not impossible. It sounds challenging but in 2016 attending a methadone clinic in NJ doesn't have to be the archaic torture chamber that so many people seem to HAVE HEARD for 250 a month and 2 years of clean time your free to LIVE 27 days a month unchained to qualified clinics. Misconception about modern MM treatment is very unfortunate. I personally see dozens of success stories every time I make my trek to (Asbury Park NJ )the clinic. It takes me less then an hour once a month that's 12 hours a YEAR. Really? How many hours do you waste seeing doctors,waiting at pharmacys not to mention the thousands of $'s and overwhelming stress thinking and wondering if I'll get my meds today?? Seems to me that's HANDCUFFED to the powers that be.

P.s. Most clinics offer reduced ,sliding scale or charity care for those motivated to live drug free. But methadone maintence treatment is the devil drug I hear and read about everyday at nauseam ?? I THINK NOT but that's just my EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE.

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