Author: finallyachance
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:18 am
I am really sorry you lost your mother. No matter whether it was the alcohol, the past drug use, drinking on suboxone, Hep C, Cirrhosis etc. The bottom line and real culprit is ADDICTION. When we take in the option to takes suboxone or methadone, the way most of us are looking at it is that the risk of taking one of these is less than the risk of continued abuse.
In my opinion, it is the very fact of why there are doctors and such that will even consider prescribing opiates for opiate abuse or prescribing drugs to get off drugs. And in a way it is like I am taking part in what is called informed consent that instead of getting clean by abstinence (without MMT) I have chosen (by my consent and with the information I have been given and/or researched) a path that may have its complications, side effects, addiction or "dependence" (as we on MMT like to call it). So I knew this ahead of time and I still chose to take the leap rather than to stay in my active addiction which in my case would be riskier.
Given my relapses when I tried the abstinence, meetings, psychiatric help etc…this is my only hope and yes something could happen while I am in MMT and it may appear to be Methadone’s or suboxone’s fault to others that fail to consider all the facts and realize that I could have just as easily or more so even died from actively using as I was prior to MMT. If the doctor’s that prescribe MMT for us appear to society as “pushers� that too is because the person is not informed of all that may and more likely will happen to us addicts that chose to remain in active addiction.
Thank God these doctors take into consideration that abstinence does not always work. And any one of them I have ever talked to has taken my history into thought before prescribing me either of the two MMT choices, have talked to me about my inpatient and/or outpatient failures/successes, relapses etc. and had me rule out those options first before they admitted me into MMT. If society wants to take action against drug pushing doctors they need to look into their local pill mills and/or pain management clinics and take action accordingly. (Not saying all pain management, but these pill mills run under the prefaces of “pain management�) As to me they are worse than the actual drug dealers we drug addicts buy from as at least they never took an oath to protect and serve like these doctor’s did.
Once again, I am so sorry for your loss. My mom can be my biggest pain in my rear, but I cannot imagine life without her and I would feel very cheated if I lost her to addiction etc…. So I do understand your upset with the whole ball of wax here. So please know by me stating what I have, I by no means am in any opposition to your comment/post.
