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Re: ANGRY
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Sep 2, 2011 10:59 PM
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He took suboxone for the last 2 years. He said it was for Percocet withdraw. He adamantly denied to everyone that he had ever or would ever use heroin. With the suboxone, he took paxil and up to 15 Klonopin a day. They were all prescribed. They were all sedating, so it seemed like he slept all the time. He drove a truck over the road and always ran out of his medicine early because he took more than the ordered doses, so he was having withdraw symptoms frequently. The suboxone alone was $600 a month and the doctor visit (a 5 minute check mark questionnaire followed by hand-off of prescription) was $120. He had to struggle to come up with the money every month. In February, he ran out of suboxone and went through withdraw symptoms for 2 weeks. After that, he said that he didn't have any more withdraw symptoms. When he came back home, I drove him to his doctor appointment. On the way, he told me that he didn't know what he should do about the suboxone since he felt like he was completely withdrawn from it. I told him that I didn't think he should start taking it again because he had been addicted to it and using it for 2 years when it had been started as a temporary (less than 1 year) treatment. I argued that since he had already gone through the withdraws, couldn't really afford it, and seemed to be doing ok, there was no reason why he should start taking it again. Three months later, he was dead of a heroin and klonopin overdose. The one time I was finally able to tell him how I felt about the drug use, he agreed, followed my advice, and then died. From the autopsy report, we found out that he had early stage kidney cancer, which can cause fatigue and could have been the real reason why he was sleeping so many hours of the day.
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