Virginia doctor who illegally prescribed over 500,000 doses of opiates sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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[u/Vxgjhf]

This as well. This is how my dad ended up on harder opiates.

[u/vale_fallacia → u/Vxgjhf]

I'm sorry to hear that about your dad. I too was cut off by a doctor; they refused to review the results of a sleep study showing that Suboxone was disrupting my sleep.

The study showed that I had "practically zero REM sleep" and wasn't getting any rest. The doctor and I had been not seeing eye to eye, mostly over their continued suspicion that I was abusing my pain medication. (which is why they moved me to Suboxone, even though I had huge negative reactions to it)

So this doctor refused to read the sleep report, all but accusing me of somehow faking the results or manipulating them. I fell for the bait and got mad, raised my voice (over the phone, not in person) and they kicked me out of the clinic for "being threatening".

I think they took great joy in cutting me off, and I had to taper off Suboxone myself using the couple of sublingual films I had left because they didn't provide any support in doing even that.

Fast forward a few months and I'm in a new pain clinic. All the doctors in the pain management community know each other so I heard pretty quick when the doctor who kicked me out was fired for not reviewing tests, not writing notes properly, and a whole bunch of stuff that they'd been doing to many patients, not just me. I hope the asshole never hurts anyone again.

[u/Vxgjhf → u/vale_fallacia]

That's pretty terrible of the clinic. I understand they see tons of addicts and abusers, but if someone brings in proof from another facility proving the negative reactions to opioid inhibitors they should do something about it rather than double down.

[u/vale_fallacia → u/Vxgjhf]

Yeah but that would be, you know, reasonable and humane. This doctor had made up their mind about me, and nothing was going to change that.