Is it possible to request your insurance company to redflag you at the drug store?

[bicyclerace]

So after five horrendous months I am losing to my adderall abuse/habit. I am not a dramatic person, but everything good in my life is in jeopardy- job, beautiful wife, a nice apartment by the metro. I tried a crisis line (wanted to ship me to california), reaching out to a friend, and drug counseling. I have failed so far. I am wondering if it is possible to redflag your self in a city in order to ban yourself from getting a drug. Right now I am interested in cutting down the physical harm that I am doing to my body so I can focus on the addiction aspect. Any advice would be very appreciated.

I know a redflag would be enough of a mental deterrent to stop myself from filling. Currently I have 4 scripts from 4 different doctors. They give out this shit like it's nothing around here.

 

[Legerity]

I don't know if there exists any "redflag" system that works. It could be. If you tell your doctors then that will make the decision more certain because they will know that they should not prescribe you anything based on the information you provided.

I totally understand where you're at and I've engaged in similar endeavors just last week for amphetamines. I think the simplest thing is to be upfront and then you don't have to worry about whether or not you are able to come up with a story that convinces your doctor. It's not very hard to convince a doctor to prescribe meds. If they know you are trying to come off of it then they may not buy into whatever you tell them.

 

[Missykins]

Four scripts from four doctors? You are officially doctor-shopping. It's a fast track to jail (and in some states, prescription monitoring systems are
in place).

Don't do it. IMHO, you need to go to rehab before you lose everything. Drugs have a way of doing that.

 

[Snarky91]

I am a fan of amphetamine, although I'm pretty certain I actually have ADD. Anyway, it's obvious that this idea of red-flagging yourself is counter-productive. Not only will it not work, since you can always get prescriptions and fill them on a cash basis, or simply get them through illegitimate channels (e.g. online), but notifying your doctor or insurance company that you have a habit will cause unintended consequences. Your insurance company might get much tougher, even when you need a different medication for a legitimate reason. Additionally, they may try to recoup past costs based on the fact that getting pills for a habit is not covered medically. Your information will be in a file somewhere attached to official documentation that you had/have a drug habit. Your insurance company could notify the relevant authorities about your using various doctors, based on their monetary interest in the whole matter.

My recommendation for you is to evaluate your life circumstances. Surely all isn't swell if you're abusing the hell out of these drugs. Try to pinpoint the underlying problem that your use is substituting for. Tell your wife you have a problem, if she won't flip out (hard to see how she doesn't already know). Take a week or two off from work to get over the primary withdrawal. Afterward, you might want to try modafinil and cannabis if energy levels are still out of whack. The easiest way to adjust afterward is by setting a routine, filled with at least a few things you genuinely enjoy. Take it one day at a time and savor foods that you didn't have the appetite for before. Exercise the way you couldn't before. Hell, just enjoy not having mood swings associated with coming up and down all the time. It might take some time to get reacquainted with ordinary life but it will be worth the effort. Good luck.

 

[cj]

Yea what Missykins said you are breaking the law so you should just stop and not tell anyone. frankly im suprised your insurance paid for the scripts. you should proceed cautiosly they take this shit very seriously.

 

[Legerity]

Everybody who uses "drugs" is breaking the law lol unless it is alcohol which has a free pass somehow. So one person who is prescribed 20mg by one doctor is OK but another person that is prescribed 5mg by 4 doctors is doing something wrong. A lot of doctors are overworked and not particularly informed; the dosage/drug/diagnosis that they provide is often based on incompetence. Many are also good and know what they are doing. Cocaine and opiates used to be prescribed for mental health. Who is to judge what is acceptable or not based on our current level of knowledge.

Not that any sort of dependence is "healthy" but if somebody is engaging in an addiction then better off getting something clean than something off the street that is cut with who knows what and can be pretty much anything. Not to mention the sketchy characters that seem to flock toward the position of drug dealer. I'm not a lawyer but I would personally prefer to deal with being caught with enough of a prescribed substance from several doctors to last several weeks rather than enough of an illegal substance that lasts just as long.

Laws in themselves as a poor source of ethics. They may predict certain consequences for certain behaviours within our society; but law can't dictate what is is "okay" for an individual to experience or not. I don't encourage anybody to specifically break laws but if somebody has the choice of dealing with doctors or taking a greater health risk with sketchy dealers, I wouldn't hesitate to suggest the doctors instead.

That's just my opinion anyways.

 

[zombiesarepeaceful]

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[panic in paradise]

... notifying your doctor or insurance company that you have a habit will cause unintended consequences. Your insurance company might get much tougher, even when you need a different medication for a legitimate reason. Additionally, they may try to recoup past costs based on the fact that getting pills for a habit is not covered medically.

this would be music to their ears, and received in the same tone by the next guys.

my parents went to purchase insurance one time when i was 17. at 16 i was in the hospital for IV drug abuse - right as they were going to sign the papers, the salesman asked about me (loaded Q), my "past" came up, and the cost of their insurance with out me on it almost tripled. sure thats IV use, but thats drug-use, their isnt too much distinction, and even if it were to double other-wise, that is an un-fair cost that could be avoided...it is serious, and should be avoided - but there are many other consequences to avoid with this as-well.


try to spend a portion of each day for the next week breaking down in hand-writing- what 'cause and effect' means to you...sounds adolescent maybe, but, this is the sort of practice that leads to the best of things, the things that take time and make time something more to appreciate. as Snarky91 also suggested - evaluate your life. focus on your current circumstances, weigh your needs and wants, then balance-out what is most needed and challenge yourself by dissolving the most frivolous impulsive wants.



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