My Prescription Was Stolen Now What? (Page 3)
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Me and my wife recently had a birthday party for my son. After the party I went into the bathroom to take one of my suboxone and i noticed the perscription was stolen. I have not reported it to the police or my doctor yet. I am not sure what to do. I dont want to ask my doctor for a replacement script because I dont know if I can get kicked out of the program. This program is the last chance for me to get my life straight and it is working so far but I am scared if I dont replace them that I run a risk of relapsing. My next appointment to get my regular refill is three weeks away. Has anybody ever delt with a situation like this or have any real advise on what to do?

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Suboxone makes you high also I know I've been on it all best thing to do is tamper off and get your life straightened out and turn your life over to God that's what I done I've been clean for two years now

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Actually... (First -have you personally taken suboxone?) Now.. Suboxone in no way "makes you feel high". I personally know this, it just pretty much keeps you from going through withdrawal (and not relapsing). Methadone on the other hand I believe should not be given as a "recovery" medication. Since people still feel high.. And taking suboxone for years actually has its reasons. After someone has taken pain killers of any kind for a time period of being addictive, then talking to your doctor to get help with taking suboxone instead to recover and block the receptors in your brain from thinking they "need" whichever type of narcotic pain killers they were addicted to. After taking any pain killers for a period longer than say after a surgery or injury... Even after switching to suboxone and weaning off of that your body never feels like it did before being addicted to pain killers. Yes there are people out there who put a bad name on pretty much all suboxone patients and it really is not fair to the people who take it correctly and for its purpose and don't even think about taking any pain killers or relapsing in general. I have been taking suboxone for... At least 4 years maybe almost 5, and I have went from taking a quarter (2mg) to taking a full 8mg tablet or film a day, and to taking a half of one ((4mg) while I have been on it. I also have some spine/ back and nerve problems/injuries and because I don't want to be prescribed pain killers I have stayed on suboxone to at least try and cover up some of the daily pain. My doctor knows that's why I am still taking it. I am also sorry to the original writer, I am actually in the stolen prescription issue at the moment... I can't get my refill yet and I don't know if I should go in and wait to see my doctor tomorrow, because I am pretty sure if I just call to try and make an apt with him they won't give me an appt. And my local police station said they can't really help me at all because they get people all the time asking for reports and whatnot to just get another prescription. I just thought if my doctor changed my next refill with the missing amount added onto my normal amount per day/month I could then fill it early. I also thought about talking to my pharmacist to see if he could help me at all with filling my refill 5-6 days early this month... He knows about the person who stole the rest of my prescription, and how I have to hide 2 of my prescriptions all the time because of this person and them being an addict and also stealing from me in the past (couple years ago that was) now its happened again and I thought I was protecting them the best way I could by holding onto my purse all the time and them in a small make up bag and at night putting the make up bag with them in it literally in my pillow case each night. But this person literally cut a hole in my pillow case to pull the small bag out, take the pills and put the bottles back into the bag and into my pillowcase. I feel like I am living in a nightmare right now. I am just worried to tell my doctor or pharmacist and them possibly think I am lying that this happened. I feel like its crazy even saying or thinking about it honestly. I can't kick the person out yet.. They have 30 days from the eviction notice now. So I am going to check into lock boxes tomorrow but I don't know if those can be easily broken into, or how well they can keep my prescriptions safe. Because I feel like I have done everything I can, plus having to worry that my purse is in my eyesight/same room as me all day every day. Has anyone been where they had like 6 days until they can fill next and what do i do? Or talk to? I am honestly very worried about having a seizure or something like that trying to go 6 days without my prescription. I am a patient who is always honest with my doctor, but I mean I don't know if he knows I am being honest or not or if he will believe me and try and help with a upped prescription amount for this next month so I can fill it tomorrow. I just am panicking, I have never not taken my medications... Let alone for 6 days. I am honestly just really scared.

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I had told him that I was abusing my oxycodone. So he put me on Suboxone, 3 films a day. 10 days later he went to 4 films a day. I took about 5 days worth then stopped to see what happens, and no withdrawal symptoms at all. It's been a week now and I'm good to go. I've OD'd 4 times and was a sick bastard but I'm clean now.

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And THAT'S THE TRUTH RIGHT THERE!!! You've traded one vice for another. No excuses or tear jerking stories etc... Get off the s*** and STOP justifying your addiction!

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Jackie call your local police department so you can get a police report to take to your doctor. You also might want a copy of it too and a note from your doctor to show the pharmacy.
This day and time you want to dot all i's and cross your t's.

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I need the phone number to report a stolen medication who do I call to report a stolen medication

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I so sick of pain docs scared of their shadow now and cutting our meds--I went from 120mg oxy plus fentanyl to now just 40mg oxy! They're trying to kill us! I'm thinking bout going on suboxone..as long as it gives energy, which suboxone has in the past...Ill be okay...

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You are the kind of person that I have a huge issue with. If you haven't been there you don't know what you're talking about. Suboxone is a great medicine for those of us who don't want to die shooting up. It is supposed to be a program that eventually tapers you off. But addiction is a lifelong battle and a disease and for a lot of us suboxone is taken for much longer than first intended simply because we use it for pain management or just to no that if we have it in our system we won't be tempted to do dope. The person that's been on them for 10 years could very well have a pain problem and instead of getting hooked on pain meds that will eventually lead to heroin again is using suboxone under his physicians care legally. Some are on it for life for that very reason. So please stop judging and give some credit to those who are not putting a needle in their arm anymore. You don't know how hard that is to do!!!

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Soo,I told my dr and she wont be able to help until my appointment Tuesday

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Someone stole my suboxone( only 6) at work and im out and starting to feel sick,I dont know if I should tell my dr or not. I dont want her to take me off my meds completely because she thinks im lying or something

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To Jane's response number nine, I would say to you Jane some people because of being in pain clinics and using pain medicine for so long are so dopamine deficient that they need some substitute to even give them a chance for recovery. I was so depressed after five years in the clinic when they stopped me that I couldn't even dress myself. for me it has been a lifesaver so I have been hard-core NA for 20 years and I had to get a humble to get open-minded so I would ask you to stop judging others work your own fourth step take your own inventory and let others do what they need to to get themselves in the ball game so they can be in recovery. I just ask you to keep your judgments to yourself because your opinion may end up killing somebody and God bless you because I hope you don't have to get humbled the hard way.

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U can ask your dr for another script but I would show some credibility by filing a police report so u don't look like you're abusing them or selling them and if they are making such a big difference in your life like they are in mine I've learned to be responsible for something so important by locking them in a safe lock box or keeping the room door locked. Addicts have a nose for finding them. U having young people over for a party, are u kidding me. I would have had them glued to my forehead. I know when I was active I was sneaky manipulative and creative. They're giving u a chance for recovery. Be pro active in saving your life. Now if they didn't get stolen and your looking for some good ideas to get over then your disease is getting worse and u need more than just a new script. God bless u and it will work out. Be responsible and do what's right. You'll be ok. My prayers are with you. I'm recovering and have been through it all.

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Suboxone does not make you feel high, its like a nicotine patch and if you could come sit in on one of our weekly groups where we discuss how much the suboxone had helped us that it brings us all to tears, well then maybe you'd shut up. You clearly do not understand.

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Hey #74. It's ill informed not I'll. It's nalaxone not nation. So who's rambling now

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Methadone in my opinion is not a maintenance drug. I was feeling high everyday while on it, worse than before I started treatment. Suboxone actually doesn't make you feel high at all!!

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I never post on these sites, but this is one of the most I'll informed, selfish, garbage statements I have ever read. Why don't you research what the relapse rate is for opiates? It is above 90%. Would you tell a diabetic they shouldn't take insulin? Properly taken Methadone does not get you high. And suboxone specifically contains Nation so that it CAN NOT get you high. Take your self righteous ramblings somewhere else.

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I'll bet your judgement is SUPER helpful.

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Vero, a dr still has to be contacted for an Emergency Prescriptin for a Schedule II. Under Federal Law, a dr can call issue the prescription orally, but it must be followed up with in seven days written and signed prescription from the dr. There are also other requirements. State Laws can have stricter guidelines than federal.

"An “emergency prescription” in this context, is defined to mean that the immediate administration of the drug is necessary for proper treatment of the intended ultimate user, that no alternative treatment is available (including a drug which is not a schedule II controlled substance), and it is not possible for the prescribing practitioner to provide a written prescription for the drug at that time. In a bona fide emergency, a practitioner may telephone a schedule II prescription to the pharmacist who may then dispense the prescription. The prescribing practitioner must provide a written and signed prescription to the pharmacy within seven days and meet the below requirements:

The drug prescribed and dispensed must be limited to the amount needed to treat the patient during the emergency period. Prescribing or dispensing beyond the emergency period must be pursuant to a written prescription order.

The prescription order must be immediately reduced to writing by the pharmacist and must contain all information, except for the prescribing practitioner’s signature.

If the prescribing individual practitioner is not known to the pharmacist, he/she must make a reasonable effort to determine that the oral authorization came from a registered individual practitioner, which may include a call back to the prescribing individual practitioner using his or her telephone number as listed in the telephone directory and/or other good faith efforts to insure his or her identity.

Within seven days after authorizing an emergency telephone prescription, the prescribing practitioner must furnish the pharmacist a written, signed prescription for the controlled substance prescribed. The prescription must have written on its face “Authorization for Emergency Dispensing” and the date of the oral order. The written prescription may be delivered to the pharmacist in person or by mail, but if delivered by mail, it must be postmarked within the seven day period. Upon receipt, the dispensing pharmacist must attach this written prescription to the oral emergency prescription which had earlier been reduced to writing by the pharmacist. By regulation, the pharmacist must notify the local DEA Diversion Field Office (Appendix K) if the prescriber fails to provide a written prescription within seven days. Failure of the pharmacist to do so will void the authority conferred on the pharmacy to dispense the controlled substance without a written prescription of a prescribing practitioner.

For electronic prescriptions, the pharmacist must annotate the record of the electronic prescription with the original authorization and date of the oral order."

SECTION IX – VALID PRESCRIPTION REQUIREMENTS-
deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/manuals/pharm2/pharm_content.htm#10

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LOL I count my pills every time I take one; before and after. I also count them during commercials, before and after meals or a shower, before I go to bed and after I get dressed in the morning AND upon returning after I've gone out. Did I forget to mention that I suffer from a bit of OCD? LOL

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Im not really sure if u ou should report it or not. I'm not sure about LA but in Indiana you are allowed to get a 3 day supply early for emergancy. I had to once. This was from walgreens. Ask the pharm rep. They may tell u no, but ask again and make sure ur talkin a an experienced rep becuz they told me the first time that I couldnt then when I talked to the 2nd person I was able to.

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