Author: smithjm
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:50 pm
[quote="Katherine"]Thank you everybody for your kind words. I will say that I did not know much about the Suboxone treatment. "Blue" was taking prescribed percocets for 7 or so years due to an illness. He was in severe pain that only my father (his grandfather) endured with migraine headaches. When he was on the Suboxone program, he would constantly complain about driving sometimes close to 2 hrs to get to the clinic every week. When he was in pain, he did not want to go. He would also complain about the cost of the Suboxone itself even though his insurance helped a great deal. Still, $15-25 dollars every week is expensive when you’re on social security.
I’m in NO way sticking up for Kevin’s decision to quit the program. I’m trying to drive home with a point here. Kevin’s doctor prescribed him several hundred percocets a month, AND would write him 2 post dated scripts to bring home. And each script would cost him $2. If they made Suboxone as easy to get as percocet, Kevin may be alive today.
Thank you all again[/quote]
Such a good point… I know these are older post. But I am just now reading them and they are helping me. You are so right. They hand out the pain killers such as vic’s perk’s ect like it was candy.. But try and find a Dr to treat you with Sub’s to get off the stuff. And because it is a new medication not a lot of insurance is covering it and the cost is very high. I pay $350 a month for the Dr visit and the Rx not to mention the gas to get to my Dr. I drive 1 hr there and an hr back. I am not complaning though because you would not belive the disstance I would travle to get my drugs. It is well worth it. Sub’s has save my life and my relationships with my family.
