Nation Wide Methadone Shortage Mystery? (Page 2)

Yes there is a shortage and not just Methadone, and it is being kept very quiet but this month every day more and more people are finding out. In Oregon South Coast there is not one pharmacy within 100 miles that has any. They were substituting 5mg but that is now gone also. The suppliers are not getting it or any answers as to why or when they will. Also, other narcotics as Vicadan and Norco, and some Attention Deficiet Disorders (Concerta) also are not there to reorder.

Someone needs to get this out ASAP to the public. Call any phamancy in Brookings Oregon, Golds Beach, to Coo's Bay and find its not a rumour.

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Your only hope is mail order pharm. Im in jax an getting methadone here is a life threatening adventure not kidding. Ive given up and asked my dr this month for an early appt so I can get my prescriptions filled fairly on time through the mail. The first time it takes approx 2 wks so u have to overnight it to them and have them overnight it to you the first tie but ive heard after that it becomes faster. Good luck neighbor

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Does any one know what the dea is gonna do to help with withdrawels?been taking methadone for 8yrs. When you cant miss work from being sick because with out warningdoctors to wean you down is the least they could have done.i have a family to provide for.does any one know a pharmacy that will fill or have them in stock in jax.fla area

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So now after many months of research and lots of detective work at mom and pop pharmacies, im convinced thats its not a shortage. Just like the DEA says. There is more than enough medication , to go around. But contrary to what your pharmacy is telling you they can get the products they just prefer not to. And here is why in a nutshell.
Prior to the DEA closing down all the PILL MILLS the pharmacies were filling stacks and stacks of controlled substance and or narcotic prescriptions and a majority of the patients were paying CASH to get those prescriptions filled. At a pretty penny I might add. If my memory serves me correctly, approximately 120 tabs of 80 mg Oxycontin would be about $700 OR MORE easy.
So multiply that one prescription numerous times daily and the pharmacies were really making a good little profit. That kind of money made it worth the trouble of dealing with the problems of filling those medications. And we all know all too well the certain sketchy patients AND their families AND their friends AND aquaintances that often come along to the dr.visit and subsequent pharmacy fill.
Well, now that there arnt so many drs writing so many.prescriptions, all thats left are the critically ill, and bonifide injured and or ill, pain management patients and most of them carry prescription insurance by the way, not cash. So theres another down side, its a case of economics. Its just not worth the trouble to carry and fill these medications. For example. A bottle of 300 tablets of 10 mg methadone costs about $50. Considering all the other medications out there, and the hazards involved in dispensing them its really obvious why the pharmacies are doing what their doing. I mean why keep them in stock when all were going to make is maybe $400 but the possibility of getting robbed and or killed is very real?
I dont agree with it, and I think its wrong, but I honestly cant think of anything to do about it especially when you add dea quotas to the mix. Each pharmacies is only allowed so many tablets of each controlled substance medication each month. And its not a huge amount. Its about a bottle of 500 I think. And it changes frequently. If one customer gets 300 pills, he can run out after 2 customers!!!!! Now you CAN BLAME THE DEA FOR THAT CRAP!!!
All I can suggest is try to form a relationship with a pharmacist prior to the day you get your prescription. Go in and explain your situation 2 wks in advance. So they can get to know you. Unfortunately this medication has created a scary environment for many pharmacies. Many have lost their lives over these pills. And....fill more than just your pain meds there also to make it worth their while. Good luck

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I have the exact same problem. In January, they told me to call around, but now, in February, they won't tell me anything by phone - they say it's against their store policy.

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I have sad news to report,IT IS THE DEA who has thrown a wrench into any company (be it manufacturing or distribution) I live in the state of Florida,where the DEA has shut down WALGREENS distribution center (the largest distribution center they have) for a period of 2 years. Dea claimed that WGs kept improper paperwork on sales of OXYCONTIN. I have been on methadone for over a decade now,and the DEA has made my life + the lives of chronic pain patients statewide a living hell.During this decade i've been most fortunate to become friends with my pharmacist,who inturn has kept me in the loop of what DEA is upto and what i hear is pure hell is coming to all pain patients.The DEA has lost the war on illict drugs,so to keep earning their paychecks they've gone after pharmacies. The new rule here is you must not travel more than 30 miles to see your MD or the law will not allow your prescription to be filled,or DEA will shutter the store, now i've never used OXY-anything (due to the damage agent orange did to my body true opoid drug do nothing for me ,but methadone (which was developed by the NAZI's during WW2 to keep their soldier fighting with no side affects -unlike morphine which is all about side affects) but methadone (even tho you can't feel high on it), has been thrown in with the heavy hitters of pain relief, leaving millions in indescribable pain because the DEA deemed it a narcotic w/ abuse potential. DEA COULD CARE LESS ABOUT YOU. WE ALL NEED TO WRITE OUR CONGRESSMEN (when they're not infighting about where there next payola will come from. DO NOT DEPEND ON SOMEONE ELSE TO WRITE WASHINGTON... WE ALL NEED TO GET BEHIND THIS OR OUR DOCTORS HANDS WILL BE TIED,LEAVING ONLY SUICIDE TO ESCAPE THE UNRELENTING PAIN. THIS IS NOT AN OPINION, THIS IS FACT PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT TO ALL REAL PAIN SUFFERERS, THAT THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE YESTERDAY. I wrote this 5 minutes after my pharmacist called me to report methadone shortages, and to advise me to split my last doses because when my refill is due in 8 days, they will not have anything to give me.

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I'm In Hastings Florida and I been over three county's looking to get my prescriptions filled and I get 15 mg morphine and methadone and it's been really hard to find wal-mart where I normally go said it was getting to hard to find so we did away with it all together I'm not a abuser or anything like that I just have terrible arthritis in my legs do to a major accident and it's the only thing I can take to ease the pain

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I also have not been able to find methadone anywhere in Jax. Called my Insurance pharmacy and they said there is a manufacturing problem, I won't be able to get any from them until at least May 2016. I too will be in Withdrawal.

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