Benzos, policies, and other stuff

I saw this coming from a mile away. About a week and a half ago, my MMT client I.D. number was posted on the U.A. sheet, so I had to pee. I knew I was going to be dirty for benzos which is a big huge no-no at my clinic. Such a no-no that they lower your dose by 10%, and then 5MG every week until you can provide a benzo-negative UA. I knew before I pissed that it would be dirty. The whole previous week I was eating the yellow 5MG diazepam tabs like they were candy and stumbling about Seattle like a drunken retard.

Here's the weird part. After talking/debating/pleading with my counselor - basically telling him it was not a productive way to treat opiate addiction while on methadone; to punish people by lowering their dose.......nothing happened....my dose never went down.....it didn't change.....I'm thinking that he forgot to tell the dispensary to alter my dose. There's no way what I said to him would have convinced him to side-step clinic policy, even though I was 100% in the right and they (my clinic) in the wrong. I just think the whole situation is really weird. But I'm not complaining one bit. If some clerical error occured and my dose stays where it is; that is FINE WITH ME!!! Probably more than fine....that is kickass awesome!

So that's what has been going on with me lately.

From what I understand, Bluelight is keeping the Blogs around, but getting rid of the galleries and the vJournals. I'll be sad to see the galleries go, because I do browse them often. The Journals and the Blogs are basically the same thing so whatever on that....

So yeah; Spring has sprung here in Seattle as well, which is a nice change from the constantly wet gray dullness of a winter season we get...

that's all for now..peace....

 

Glad to hear they didn't lower your MMT dose. It is kind of ass backwards to not let recovering opiate addicts use benzos.

God knows buprenorphine is way too stimulating and I'd never get a restful night's sleep without benzos.

Just be careful combining benzos and methadone. Peace!

 

Benzodiazepine use with methadone can be dangerous and usually is reckless. You're getting high still, and even thelung stated that he walked around Seattle like a 'drunken retard.' If you're taking low doses via a prescription that's a different story... majority of the people who take benzos on MMT take benzos to get inebriated (and as thelung demonstrated, that was the point of taking them.)

How were you 100% in the right and how was the clinic in the wrong? Just wondering.

Peace.

 

benzos rock!