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Methadone and driving

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I have recently been prescribed methadone by my local substance misuse service and was told at the initial assessment that it was my responsibility to inform the DVLA who it seems imposes an automatic ban for 12 months followed by a medical examination to assess your fitness to drive. Im now about to start my 4th week of treatment and so far seem to be tolerating it well - I know the right thing to do is to tell the DVLA but if I dont would they ever be more the wiser? The same advice applies if you use heroin and Ive been using heroin for 10 years without informing the DVLA. Yes I know Im going to get a serious bollocking for driving while using drugs but whether it be smack, methadone, weed, speed, pills or coke Ive been driving for 17 years with no incident (and ill grant anyone that this is more luck than judgement). I know if i get stopped and they find a bottle of meth in my glove box with my name on it (or any other drug for that matter, not that I label all my drugs as belonging to me) then im rightly fucked but If I keep this quiet and try to avoid killing anyone is there any chance of my treatment getting back to the DVLA unless I tell them?

On a completely different note I find that my driving improves while smoking weed - i know it probably lowers my reaction times but I find it makes me drive more slowly, more courteously, that it improves my observations which in my fucked up reasoning offsets whatever effect it has on my reaction to an emergency stop. I know if I ever have an accident and get blood tested ill end up in jail but as I smoke weed at least 2 or 3 days a week I dont believe Ive ever driven with it not in my system which is what they go by regardless of whether or not you're actually stoned

I know drug driving is reckless but as I have lived in a village since getting a driving license Ive never known any different. Its only been 5 or 6 years that Ive stopped driving pissed up.
 
You are right that you are supposed to inform the DVLA if you are on a methadone script but i have never known anybody to actually do it. I haven't ever known or heard of anyone being asked about it by the DVLA. In my experience if you don't tell the DVLA then they won't be notified about it by your DSP or GP.
 
150 if you get te kid as well......fwiw ive had scripts for 20 yers or so and hd insurence claims etc and its never come up
 
funny this thread comes up, my dad recently was contacted by the dvla about his methadone script which he been on 20 years now,

to top it off some smarmy arse doctor is trying to cut him off injectables on to suppositories but doesnt understand the simple thing u need 3x the dose rectal compared to IV :/ (fucking joke some of the doctors in this proffession that know next to nothing about even dosage guidlines)

My dads off the weed, he getting a drug screening from the dvla, surely his methadone will show up, but hopefully the weed is out of his system now! dunno whats gonna happen tbh .. but the doctor things another story (which i believe was the guy who informed the dvla of my dads use)

i know what you mean about the weed, but seriously, it only helps potentiate the opiates.. i hope you get it all sorted man, i defo drive more cautiously lightly stoned, but when im stoned stoned i dont want to be driving, not stoned i do drive a bit too fast and can be a bit of a rage road driver ...
 
funny this thread comes up, my dad recently was contacted by the dvla about his methadone script which he been on 20 years now,

to top it off some smarmy arse doctor is trying to cut him off injectables on to suppositories but doesnt understand the simple thing u need 3x the dose rectal compared to IV :/ (fucking joke some of the doctors in this proffession that know next to nothing about even dosage guidlines)

My dads off the weed, he getting a drug screening from the dvla, surely his methadone will show up, but hopefully the weed is out of his system now! dunno whats gonna happen tbh .. but the doctor things another story (which i believe was the guy who informed the dvla of my dads use)

i know what you mean about the weed, but seriously, it only helps potentiate the opiates.. i hope you get it all sorted man, i defo drive more cautiously lightly stoned, but when im stoned stoned i dont want to be driving, not stoned i do drive a bit too fast and can be a bit of a rage road driver ...
That's a terrible doctor. I agree that methadone suppositories are a stupid idea to begin with [shambles]. As far as driving goes as long as your dose is low enough that you don't nod I don't see what the deal is. I also use marijuana, particularly the CBD rich strains, to potentiate the opiates and benzo's. I can hardly feel the subutex without cannabis.
 
Yeh you would think right, my dad said well what about inhaling it? Haha my dads friends friend gets a diamorphine script but he been known to be a grass and a bit of a twat, why is it cunts always get the good scripts?!?!
 
Right, in addition to some of the lies I told the DSP doc this morning I made out that I was on the case to get the DVLA to look at my methadone situation. She says that this was the right course of action and that I should expect a BAN OF AT LEAST 12 MONTHS AFTER WHICH I HAVE TO TEST CLEAR OF METHADONE AND OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS FOR A FURTHER 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE DVLA WOULD CONSIDER ALLOWING ME TO DRIVE AGAIN!

At least thats my mind made up they can come and catch me before I volunteer for a ban which would be worse than what a drink driver would get.
 
I can imagine methadone suppositories would be less than ideal given how constipating it can be. Surely somewhat self-defeating?

Wouldn't make a difference, turds aren't stored in your rectal passage merely though it when you shit them out.
 
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I gave my licence up not for methadone which I am know free
Off after 20 yr but just drugs be careful alcohol obviously worse 4 driving

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