Help! Conflict of Interest

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Help! I go to a methadone clinic. I went in for my morning dose and BAM! Who do I see?  Another nurse I work with behind the dispensing window. Im afraid she will tell my employer) coworkers that I'm on methadone.

I've been having a terrible week, but this one takes the cake. I'm trying to find out if she's just there for the day through agency or a new hire? I'm really not sure yet. So what do I do? Switch clinics?

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Switch clinics if she didn't see you today 

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Do you take methadone because you're in the monitoring program? If so, can you still work while being on methadone?

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1.  If you are not in a monitoring program and you are taking methadone, then you SHOULD be in a monitoring program.  I don't like corrupt monitoring programs and BON's, but yea, even with my distaste for them, if you are actively in a methadone clinic, you should actually be monitored by the BON for God's sake if you are practicing as a nurse.  

2.  If you are already in a monitoring program and they are somehow letting you take methadone (which I've never heard of in a monitoring program except for 3 or 4 months to bridge off of it) then you should be FAR more worried about you still being on methadone than your worry about "who will find out."  See the difference?  Your worry centers on "who will find out and talk bad about me" and little worry or anxiety or fear or despair is coming your way from "being addicted to a opioid-methadone."  That's a major problem in and of itself right there.

3.   What should you do?  Get into a monitoring program with the BON if you aren't in one.  If you are already in one, share your recovery story with your colleagues and continue to go to the methadone clinic you are going to.  Something tells me.........the BON doesn't know you are going to a methadone clinic and that you aren't in a monitoring program.  Just a guess though.  Could be wrong.

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SheelaDavis said:

1.  If you are not in a monitoring program and you are taking methadone, then you SHOULD be in a monitoring program.  I don't like corrupt monitoring programs and BON's, but yea, even with my distaste for them, if you are actively in a methadone clinic, you should actually be monitored by the BON for God's sake if you are practicing as a nurse.  

2.  If you are already in a monitoring program and they are somehow letting you take methadone (which I've never heard of in a monitoring program except for 3 or 4 months to bridge off of it) then you should be FAR more worried about you still being on methadone than your worry about "who will find out."  See the difference?  Your worry centers on "who will find out and talk bad about me" and little worry or anxiety or fear or despair is coming your way from "being addicted to a opioid-methadone."  That's a major problem in and of itself right there.

3.   What should you do?  Get into a monitoring program with the BON if you aren't in one.  If you are already in one, share your recovery story with your colleagues and continue to go to the methadone clinic you are going to.  Something tells me.........the BON doesn't know you are going to a methadone clinic and that you aren't in a monitoring program.  Just a guess though.  Could be wrong.

I am not going to a methadone clinic and I am not in a monitoring program. I was simply asking OP if they were on methadone while in the monitoring program. 

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RoastedRN12 said:

I am not going to a methadone clinic and I am not in a monitoring program. I was simply asking OP if they were on methadone while in the monitoring program. 

Good for you, but I wasn't responding to you. I was responding to the OP who literally said she went into her Methadone Clinic for her morning dose.

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SheelaDavis said:

Good for you, but I wasn't responding to you. I was responding to the OP who literally said she went into her Methadone Clinic for her morning dose.

My apologies. 
 

 But I did just find out from my BON that you can be on methadone or suboxone while working if prescribed. 

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