BUPRENORPHINE vs METHADONE

Hi! I am currently spending a lot of time at a store where a large number of patients request white buprenorphine tabs. At my home store we give what we have and have never messed around with special ordering for this request. This store has people driving from all over to get the white tablets. Whe

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59M, 79.1kg, Caucasian, very active and healthy, no medical issues whatsoever. My husband had a seizure this morning and we have no idea what caused it. Today started out normal. We woke up, ate breakfast and took the dog for a walk like every morning. We got home and within about an hour he starte

I've been to the emergency clinic twice now as directed by my doctor because she doesn't know what to do. I'm awaiting a surgery on my ovary and bowel, I have been taking oxycodone for about a year while waiting. On Wednesday, the doctors decided to change my oxy to buprenorphine patches that the em

Assuming that someone on MMT or ORT (buprenorphine or methadone) is not taking anything unprescribed and is having regular urine tests, do you think they should be allowed to be a Pharmacist in a role handling strong opioids and other controlled substances?

does nobody have that shit nowadays? *nurse calls down and tells me she can't give this guy his meds thru NG because they took it out. "yes he's taking oral meds, but these are ordered NG, how do I give them?".* **put them in his mouth holy shit.** *coworker spends an hour working up pk on a vanco,

I posted the pictures in the comments below. Hello, 41f with lifelong malaise and fatigue. About 10 years ago my hands started swelling and turning red. The red never goes away and now my knees and ankles are also red and mottled. Dermatologist #1 said it was contact irritant dermititis. 2nd derm

This article from the NYC Times talks about how Acadia (largest for-profit psych provider in US) has been billing for fake counseling sessions and improperly enrolling patients. The business puports 1.3 billion in revenue for 2022 for the clinics alone. My question is why don't states require a mini

I am an inpatient staffer, and I received these orders today. They were entered on a trauma patient with no correct birthdate or merging chart to get any PMH. Urine tox negative for methadone. Trauma service blindly entered these orders without knowing why patient takes these meds, if patient actual

I am beyond furious and would like some perspective. I was notified by my patient that Walmart would no longer fill Rx from me. So naturally I called that Walmart. (I am a NP in pain management group)... the pharmacist I spoke with was quite rude and blunt, telling me I am a high prescriber and that

So, this is my first post here, and I would really appreciate your opinion comrades- I am a newly registered pharmacist in Canada (March 2020) that started working as a floater as soon as I was registered. After few months of being all over the place, one day I ended up in methadone pharmacy, in whi

I work as an inpatient pharmacist. We have a local PCP who I often find will prescribe meds that are inappropriate for his patients for various reasons (e.g. elderly patient on 3 anticholinergics admitted for what ended up being anticholinergic side effects) or will prescribe high risk meds and no

It's been awhile since I have managed a methadone conversion patient, so I wanted to get some input as well as tips and tricks from those in pain management. Here's the situation: Female, 30's, palliative care cancer patient. She is stage 4 and currently getting palliative radiation. She is using th