^wait, your doctor will be willing to treat the pain of patients in pain? THE UNCONSCIONABLE MOTHERFUCKER!
Try talking to people on suboxone in actual pain or who undergo painful procedures and are denied adequate relief; I'm sure they'll CERTAINLY agree that your doctor's willingness to treat pain is evidence of corruption!
Your pontification about sub doctors lacking scruples and stealing customers from heroin dealers is simply ludicrous. A sub doctor can only treat about 30 patients with suboxone and doesn't even get paid for the drugs himself... so its like a heroin dealer with SEVERELY limited clientele who only gets paid a finders fee and doesn't actually sell the drugs himself. I'm sure that heroin dealer is rolling in fat stacks struggling to find a way to launder all that cash!
Doctors who want to just make money don't go into suboxone prescribing, they go into plastic surgery (which drastically lacks oversight and regulation, you don't even need additional training or specialization to perform most cosmetic procedures) or they go straight shady and run pill mills in Broward County and the like.
***waves hand*** I live in Broward County.... Thus my quick move from casual hydrocodone use to taking massive amounts of Roxicets. I can't blame the pill mills, though. No one held a gun to my head and MADE me get that MRI and sit in a waiting room for three hours to see a doctor for 2.5 seconds... or long enough for him to write a script for hundreds of Roxi's...
The thing is, and this is fucked up beyond belief, these same doctors advertise in local, alternative magazines "IN PAIN? GET THE HELP YOU NEED TODAY!" Then in smaller print, they all say "Detoxing using Suboxone now available". Now, these doctors are allowed to see as many patients as they please regarding pain management, but are limited to the amount of patients they can treat using Suboxone. Even though the number of patients a doctor is legally allowed to prescribe Suboxone to has jumped from 30 to 100, it's still fucked up.
I could probably find a doctor who didn't give a rat's ass what I smoked or drank or shot or whatever if I were willing to pay the fees. I purposely chose the doctor I'm seeing because she ONLY does detoxing. I did not want to select a pill mill doctor.... er...... pain clinic doctor to go to for my Suboxone because I wanted away from all that bullshit. The long waits in waiting rooms full of a) super high and chatty fuckers... b) super high, falling asleep, can barely walk fuckers and c) fuckers who ran out of pills and have been withdrawing for two days who are fighting for the bathroom to go puke. It's NOT a pretty scene in those places. And you sit there and wonder, "Am I going to be sitting here when they raid this place? Am I going to be hauled off to jail?" Gah! NOT pretty.
Anyway, I'll just be straight up honest with her. I am NOT ready to lower my dose. If she disagrees, then I'll just go find another doctor. Additionally, I've decided that I am going to smoke pot. She has NEVER said "don't smoke pot" but I do know she does give UA's. What she's looking for, I don't know. She could just be checking to see that her patients are taking their Suboxone and not selling it. But, if she does do a UA on me and finds the weed, I'll just be honest and tell her that she never told me I couldn't smoke pot. Period, end of story. If she tells me I have to stop after that, then I'll decide whether or not I want to continue to drive to the fucking Everglades twice a month for cheap, or go around the corner and pay twice the money and sit for hours.
Why can't my regular doctor just give me the Subs? It's STUPID!
