Klonopin OD?

Question

My mother has a huge problem. She has this doctor who prescribes her tons and tons of medication. Granted, I am not a doctor nor an expert on psychiatric medications, but I am able to tell when they are being abused. What's worse is that the doctor basically supports the addiction by calling in her prescriptions when she's run out of 1 month's supply in a week and 1/2. We've tried to contact him to tell him that she is doing very badly; that she is taking other pills aside from the ones he prescribed and we fear an interaction and an overdose. He refuses to even speak to us, citing patient confidentiality. But is is confidentiality when we are trying to GIVE information rather that receive it? We called him 5 times in one night once because she was so messed up on pills. She looks drunk. She stumbles, falls, slurs, can't focus, passes out. I've called the pharmacies that I know she goes to in order to warn them but there's not much they can do if it's doctor prescribed. We're at a loss

She won't ditch him. She sees him as a saint. Since we are not the patient there is no legal action we can take without her. We've been told by a social worker on her case (she was in the hospital for major depression in which he met with her once a day for 10 minutes for 5 days and just upped her dosage) tell us that there's really nothing we can do.

But I feel like he's going to kill her eventually. He's made this addiction worse and if it weren't for him, my family wouldn't be torn apart. We've begged and pleaded with her for a year to change doctors..

Now she goes to AA, because she used to be an alcoholic and used to be involved with that.. so she is going back for the support. But I feel as if without the therapy she needs, the addiction is never going to pass. She self-medicates and the doctor pays no mind.

We cannot show that it is to support the addiction. He has said in the past that she needs this medication and it is part of her "treatment". Since he refuses to even speak with us (this all goes through his receptionist) we cannot confront him about her addictions. We've told the receptionist on the phone our concerns, to which she relayed to him, and he still said he could not speak with us.

Answer 1

If i were you i would call the police and also contact the department of human services, I cannot believe a doctor would refill klonpin after one week.

THere's nothing you can do once she OD's. I'd call the cops right away and social services.

Answer 2

If a doctor is prescribing a controlled medication, like klonopin, with the sole reason being to support an addiction the prescription is illegal. Pharmacists cannot fill it. Pharmacists are required to investigate every controlled prescription.

Answer 3

Wow. You need to report this doctor to the police. Hopefully he'll have his medical license revoked when what he's done is further investigated. Uh, try and take him to court on the cheap?