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    Default Re: Problems at a Privately Owned Methadone Clinic

    If you've recently detoxed from about 20 years of opiate/opioid medication, I would hope that your counselor would have warned you of the probability that you would experience a prolonged period of depression or dysthymia. Your opiate receptors have been constantly stimulated for decades, and it's anything but unusual to experience a period of being "down" that last for months (or longer). Some people bounce back after a period of adjustment, while others find that they need some level of safe, doctor-prescribed opioid medication to stay safe (not seek street drugs or relapse) and to be functional. You can talk to your doctor about a medication other than methadone, such as Suboxone, that will allow you to be on a long-term low "blocking" dose of medication without having to go to a methadone clinic.

    Methadone clinics can, and should, test and monitor their clients for the use and abuse of other drugs.

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    Default Re: Problems at a Privately Owned Methadone Clinic

    Hello Mr Knowitall, I appreciate your concern, but I am not in a detox situation now. I am in the same serious depression (amongst other problems) that put me on the clinic to begin with. The thing I'm asking about here, is that by ignoring my legal disabilty for which I am getting a monthly check, and making me report to the clinic 7 days a week, even after being warned by my personal psychiatrist that I was in "crisis", they have pushed me into a severe state of panic, stress, and depression that has me in a dangerous predicament. I've had these emotional issues all of my life, and the clinic was well aware of them and my disability. My trouble with agoraphobia is now 10 times worse than it was before and I am seriously housebound unless heavily medicated. I feel as though I have been injured permanently. Can anything be done legally to teach these places that people are individuals and should not be treated like garbage because we have problems that society wants to ignore. Animal shelters treat their animals with more dignity, caring and respect than this place treated it's human clients. I actually kept a running diary of the situation, and it accurately describes the mishandling of power and abuse they inflicted upon me...and I was a stellar and well-liked client. I am grateful for your opinion.

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