A lot of pain specialists think that methadone is the drug of choice for treating chronic pain. Yes, the methadone they give drug addicts. If you get it for pain control, they give it to you in a pill, and you can have the pill bottle with you. If you get it for addiction, by federal law you have to get it from a clinic, one day's dose at a time. I imagine that the FDA scrutinizes these cases carefully, or the local authorities, but I don't know for a fact. But you can work, because it doesn't make you high. I think it's not as "clean" as morphine, but it's not as "dirty" as percoset.
For reasons which I don't understand, a lot of drug addicts get hooked on percocet. I've represented a number of people who got into trouble with the law after getting hooked on percoset for accidents and injuries. And my father gets calls all the time almost every weekend from drug addicts who claim to have a toothache that only percoset will cure, can they please have some until Monday morning?
So you have to consider what kind of "profile" to present when you are negotiating for pain-killers. Not set off their radar unintentionally. |
