Oh, I totally agree that taking prescribed medicine properly is not the same as shooting up around the kids! It’s just that the one line from the article that I quoted seemed strange to me.
Anecdotally, I knew a woman in Maryland who used to doctor-shop for Dilaudid, then crush them and shoot them. I don’t think she ever actually shot up, literally, in front of her kids, but she would scream at them for moving her needles!:eek: Then, she moved from Dilaudid to Fentanyl patches; Fentanyl patches are supposed to be worn on the skin and changed every three days. Not her, though. She cuts them open and sucks the gel out of them! She eats about three of them a day! Now, eating the Fentanyl, not only will she do that in front of her kids, she’ll do it while she’s driving, with them in the back seat! :eek::smack:
I don’t know how she can even do that without dropping dead. I don’t know how she could purchase that much considering they track purchases of those patches on the federal level.
I assume she’s using the weaker patches, or she’d probably be dead by now. I’ve seen case reports on this, too, including one of a moron who died after SMOKING a Fentanyl patch, and a mortician’s assistant who stole a patch off a cancer victim’s body that came through his morgue, and a guy released from the hospital after his second or third OD on Fentanyl patches who went straight out and got another patch, and was found dead with the patch in his mouth.
On a serious note, can someone alert Child Protective Services about this woman? Or if she does it while driving, tip off the highway patrol? They will surely want to know about this.
She has several different doctors under different names. She has a couple of doctors convinced that, while the patches are prescribed for every third day, she needs one every day because her skin is oily and they fall off (you truly are not supposed to re-apply one that has fallen off). :rolleyes: She has been charged with insurance fraud. Not sure whatever happened to that. She also has a 'script for Oxycontin, in her son’s name, that she fills, then sells to get money to pay for the Fentanyl patches her insurance won’t pay for!
I don’t know what strength patches she eats. I do know that when she was crushing and shooting Dilaudid, she was shooting about 80mg a day! She has had CPS called on her any number of times due to the fact that, not only does she do drugs right in front of her kids (only one of which is still a minor; they were both young when I met her), they live in what one would describe as squalor. The house is not only a mess, but their German Shepherd does his thing anywhere and everywhere. Now, her son (17) is a father, and her grandson sometimes experiences this atmosphere!:eek:
I’ve tried calling the cops when I knew she was setting off for one of her journeys to doctor-shop, knowing she would be using along the way, and was sort of brushed off; “yes, ma’am, what kind of vehicle? Headed in which direction? What was her license plate, again?” But the fact she’s not in jail means they’ve never followed up on it. Because I cannot imagine they’ve stopped her/pulled her over and not found her impaired/found cut-open Fentanyl patches in her purse, etc.
I have no idea why she is still alive, and still not in jail! (Though she has done jail time, and has even been through a notoriously tough rehab to escape jail time! She proudly wears her rehab jacket while she’s out doctor shopping!!)
My dog ate his Fentanyl patch. It was a few days after surgery. He was in his kennel and ate it. When I let him out the next morning he was DEFINATELY stoned. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a dog “say” DUUUUUDE! before, but I swear my dog did.
He was fine. The vet said if he didn’t have a heart attack soon after eating it (and he’d probably eaten it a few hours before), he’d be ok.
He also broke into his Rimydal and ate a months worth. I think my dog might have an addiction issue with painkillers.