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pinkpapaver

pinkpapaver

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Me and my mates are sick of not being trusted with our medication. Now because we are meant to hang our heads in shame i dont suppose many of us want to get into campaigning and all that but weve all got to kick up fuss about this supervised medication shit. Its degrading and insulting. Theresshake ups or rather cut backs in drug treatment at the moment. Lets start doing something together. I dunno what yet. And the pointless questioning. Who needs family support when theres dsps? Or are they dtps?
 
Hi PinkP,are you meaning about supervised methadone pick ups? The ones where you have to go into a little room, if the pharmacy even has one, and then take your methadone dose there & then in front of the pharmacist.
Or do you mean something entirely different?
This is the area where we could have used some wise words from Charlie Clean as he was all into getting respect for addicts and being treated just the same as other members of society.
 
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Used to bug the shit outta me having to hang around the chemist for up to half an hour while my Subbiez dose slowly, oh so very slowly, dissolved. Reckon I knew what was on their shelves better than the staff by the time they finally let me start takehome. Even then only daily takehome which is a massive pain in the arse sometimes - can't go anywhere without mucho faff and rearranging of scripts and stuff and that's just not possible sometimes. Then there's missing opening hours (more a problem out here in the stciks where they still have half-day closing on some days I suspect). Combine all this with ultrastrict rules on not missing scripts on pain of being cut off dead with no warning nor right of appeal and it's no wonder some people choose to stay away from maintenance. You'd think they'd want to make it the easy option to bring in people not make it as difficult, humiliating and frankly downright degrading at times.
 
Aye that was one of my reasons for deciding to come off my script, i had been on daily/supervised pickup for months & months, having to wait with those disgusting tasting subbies that make me gip and take 40 minutes to dissolve, its daft. Whats the logic behind becoming stricter on this? They must know it wont impact illicit use
 
Common sense tells you that it's a necessary control. I'm lucky in that none of my regular pharmacists made me sit and wait for all my bupe to dissolve.

It's annoying but it has to be done really, play the game with the services and you'll get on twice weekly or weekly relatively quickly which aint too bad.
 
Six months with no sign of being moved onto more practical pickup is not relatively quickly. You'd think a bit of discretion could be used too. I was the one and only person on a Subbiez script (and years ago the same applied for my methadone script - the pharamacist actually refused to have methadone on his premises initially) so would be extrememely easy to tell if I was selling my script. Plus I can't really see how anybody would want to buy half-dissolved sodden gunk - is the full half hour really necessary? Especially after weeks on end of supervised use where the person is physically dependent on the stuff so hardly likely to want to do anything other than continue taking their script anyway.

It never used to be so strict and it surely does put people off. This is counterproductive unless the aim is to produce figures which suggest less people require maintenance scripts... which is precisely what the government has been pushing DSPs to produce for some time now. Nevermind any such figures would be grossly distorted and utterly meaningless - it sounds good when announced and that's all that matters.
 
And presumably from pharmacist to pharmacist a bit depending on how they view those receiving support from drug addiction.
 
Actually the pharmacist thought it was ridiculous and phoned the DSP and prescribing consultant to ask if he could use a bit of leeway after the first few months and was told not on his nelly. Nor on mine presumably. They were never like this last time around but since they've had bloody stupid targets to meet they're resorting to more or less anything to make life difficult enough you'll either catch yourself out through not quite managing to jump through every single hoop every single time or you just give up cos it's more hassle than it's worth. Even the black market is less of a faff these days which is surely precisely the wrong way around :\
 
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