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Re: BUPRENEX/Pain management?DETOX? ANYONE? » Elizabeth

Posted by Sally green on June 14, 2002, at 7:37:40

In reply to Re: BUPRENEX/Pain management?DETOX? ANYONE? » Sally Green, posted by Elizabeth on June 14, 2002, at 0:26:09

Hi Elizabeth:

Some of the questions I answered in the last letter. However, how can you say that a clinic that offers 3 detox programs with scheduled protocals of 1 week, 3-4 week and 6 weeks that has these people in the detox program for years is not doing anything unethical? It is illegal to use Buprenex to detox without an Investigational New Drug Certificate, which is not offered in my state. The clinic is only opened 1 day a week, so there is not any type of other services etc. However, their website says that they offer psycological counseling and other services. No WAY! One day a week. Walk in, 3 minute appointment, walk out, bag full of Buprenex, Serex and Restorils. There are people leaving this clinic with 160 bottles of Bup, 100 Serex and 100 Restorils. If you are not familiar with the other 2 drugs. Serex is similar to Valium, anti-anxiety and Restorils are for sleep. Any doctor who would prescribe these drugs on a normal basis would never prescribe more than one Restoril per evening at bedtime and maybe 2 Serex to be used during the day for anxiety. Maximum of Restorils is 30 day supply, one per night!

There were several of us who went to this clinic together and so we discuss our programs. My closest friend started there with one document, slight muscle strain/sprain, that if taken to his family dr, would not have been given a couple of vicodin and prescribed rest and hot compresses. He is leaving that clinic with all of the amounts of drugs I stated above! He has gone from doing 2 amps of Buprenex, when we started to 7.25 per day in just 12 weeks! This doctor even offered him a slip of paper that if he got stuck out of town etc and needed more, just call and he will fed ex it anywhere in the US to him. My friend is a millionaire!! A detox, with a pricing structure quoting the maximum detox costs as $2000, has cost him over $5000 to date and the decreasing of his meds has not even begun! At the very least, these folks offer 3 different detox programs that include cutting the amounts of drugs being received, in half, after the second week and then a "minimal, regulated amount of Buprenex" given for the remainder of the program. This doctor has literally double and tripled the amounts of these drugs.

I don't need to just concentrate on my situation. I have a master's degree and have been around the medical profession all of my life. Love to research and learn, plenty of Sally to go around. I know one thing. When I see my friends getting this addicted to anything, especially something that was supposed to detox them, I must get involved. I can not just sit back and watch these things happen. If these folks aren't doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about, right? Once this drug is approved for detox there will be alot of sincere medical professionals who will want to open detox clinics using Buprenex and clinics like this may hold up things many years! I inquired about opening a detox clinic, in my area, to use Buprenex, and was told all of the things I am telling you today. I received all of this information from the FDA and the DEA! Fortunately, I am at my sharpest and most capable to do this. Trust me, had these people been practicing their promised protocals etc I would have nothing but praise for their organization! I am all for helping anyone overcome what ails them and make the most of their lives. These folks are blatantly breaking the law and like you said getting away with it because of some legal loop hole! They won't be getting away with it much longer. As I stated, people in authority find them suspious, to say the least. The clinic lies, when asked by those who regulate these type facilities, as to what they are doing with Buprenex. They claim they are not detoxing anyone. AND really that is true. I have yet to meet one person who has successfully detoxed through this program and when you seek out this information about success rates etc. it can not be found because they are not allowed to be doing it!!! Therefore no research or information is being kept on these folks who started the program for detox. Patients have all been conveniently converted to pain management or depression patients, charge a $1250 first time detox rate and forced into a long term program, based on that one document that they had to provide upon their first visit! If they were going to "call" us pain management patients, why weren't we charged their first time pain management rate of $200? How prosperous for the clinic!!

Sally


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