TL:DR (July 2022 update included) he wanted to control my methadone which isn't legal for him to…read morecontrol in this setting. He ripped me off Prozac(antidepressant) and Valium (anti-anxiety benzo) after he had given them to me for 4 years. It was over something his very spiteful nurse told him. The same nurse that treats everyone like garbage mentioned to him that I was shooting methadone in the waiting room with the other patients. SERIOUSLY?!?!? Thankfully I didn't let him control the methadone, in fact, it messed up my treatment at my clinic.
THE MAIN ISSUE IS you have to beat everyone there, meaning you have to be there at 715-730am(yes, that early),because it's first come, first serve, period. If you have a 745, but the 8, 815, and 9 got there first, too bad. Thats many of his bad reviews but it goes deeper, I've seen it. He has dark/evil side. The biggest smile I ever saw on the mans face was when he yelled, at others or at me. Last he said to me was "get out, bye bye". The look said it all, he enjoyed it. He enjoys torturing/watching reactions! Thankfully I can live without the meds he gave me, just hope I don't die from the blood clot and not having the blood thinners.
I've suffered severe social anxiety, depression, and addiction for years. I'm getting help at a methadone clinic. 1st appt, he asked what I have been on during treatments and I told him they tried 3 different classes of antidepressants(there are 5 main ones I wanted a different one). The one that I had tried with the least side effects was Prozac so he immediately put me on that. My severe social anxiety(sweating profusely around new people, not able to talk to someone unknown without issues), he said Xanax or Kolonopin. I said no, bad combo with opiates, so Valium. He looked with surprise like "a junkie doesn't want a high?" Xanax/kolonopin mess you up with a stronger high which I didn't want, IVE WATCHED PEOPLE DIE because of these combos. I left with Prozac and Valium that day, but with an offer for methadone. I did once ask for methadone because I wasn't able to get to my clinic for 2 days. So I asked for 2 days worth... He gave 7 which screwed me badly**.
I did well for 3 years with that combination and thought I found the answer, methadone, Prozac, Valium. I got down from the massive dose of methadone, 170mg down to 80mg willingly and while clean, then I was forced to switch clinics. **The clinic that got me clean found out about the 5 extra days of methadone I did not want/ask for(and they took them from me) and they kicked me out but THEY HAD TO DETOX ME. Thankfully, I started a new clinic within days but it was never the same. This clinic's methadone is sub-standard, not blocking opiates (like it should) or holding (keeping me from being sick) like the original that got me clean. I told him this too and again, he wanted to prescribe it but I turned it down again with the fear of losing another clinic and my gut saying no. There is a reason they don't allow it, I am an addict. They don't want me to have 150 pills/wk. I got tired of being sick every night and relapsed around Christmas, thankfully not for long (3 months) and only once a week.
Trouble started the first week of this March. He did a yearly physical, ears, nose, throat, heart, lungs, and checked me physically, even did an echo cardiogram (methadone can mess with the heart). Mid March I had an infection from a missed shot that I didn't realize at my appointment a couple weeks prior. I went to the ER and I'm lucky I did. They found a large blood clot in my right lung 3 weeks after my physical. A clot that would have killed me within a month if not treated. I stopped using too.
Finally saw him 5/12/21, the first time since my clot, he didn't mention my relapse or the hospital or the blood clot. Why? Because I spoke to the nurse about my relapse and the methadone I'm on. She twisted it to me shooting up my methadone. He wanted me to admit to it. I refused to say something that didn't happen. The nurse came in and lied again and that was it. No blood thinner, no Valium no Prozac. What about withdrawals? He doesn't care, THANK GOD I didn't give him the power over my methadone or I don't know where I'd be. I don't know how he gets away with having his dads MD diploma on the wall, his came from Mexico)
As a quick update in July 2022, I was able to buy Valium from someone illegally. I thankfully am now stable enough again to start coming off the methadone... The scariest part is this "doctor" wanting to control my methadone and he would have cut me off EVERYTHING that day in May last year, which I was severely messed up from the blood clot and couldn't think straight to properly say what was going on.