Methadone Collection Issue (Error?)

[Pharmanaut]

Mine often seem to have no credit available.

There's always a cascading excuse with some folk.
If you demolish one excuse they find another.

[hibernia]

but surely if they are working, then how is the partner/parent going to get it to them. surely they can get it on their way home from work..

Often if a patient is stable on methadone and manage to get a job they want to stay with the same pharmacy, even if it isn't near where they work, and the last thing they want is for somebody they work with to see them going to a pharmacy every day. It would not take people long to figure it out and there is still a lot of prejudice out there, so they get it picked up for them.

[imaginegenerous]

I am amazed that methadone patients are allowed to pick up each other's medications! I would think this would cause a lot of problems. I would think if person A was on supervised doses then they should definately not be given any take out medication at all.

I have to agree here. We only deal with a handful of methadone patients but I'd never dream of giving one of them another patient's methadone. We have one who's mother comes to collect on his behalf but another addict...I'd be very unhappy about doing that and it's something I'd make very clear to the patients' key worker(s). And although I understand the issues surrounding those patients that are working from my experience they're usually trusted enough to collect on a weekly basis but then as I said I don't really deal with that many so other places might be different.