Any legitimate reason for prescribing the Holy Trinity?
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I had one that would write for Xanax, Percocet, and Adderall to essentially every patient. We started turning away all of his cash patients (pay $100 in cash, name your prescription). Eventually, the DEA raided his office and he was out of his mind drunk. He had nighttime hours. Come in the veil of darkness and get fixed up. He also lived in his clinic; it doubled as his love shack.
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Haha I didn't know others referred to it as the Holy Trinity either. It seemed many patients were on all 3 of those meds, seemed way more frequent than it should be. Everyone had work related injuries resulting in anxiety, muscle spasms and chronic pain at age 35.
This patient called me requesting her diazepam, clonazepam, and trizolam all be refilled at once because her "work was very stressful". Sigh....
I call them the triplets.
I remember hearing about a doctor like that but in Tulsa. It was a her. She lived in her office and saw patients 24/7. Xanax, Norco, and prometh/codeine. Eventually got busted. There is a good story about a doctor in Oklahoma City who was busted as running a fake pain clinic and had his medical license revoked. He blamed it on racism.
I remember hearing about a doctor like that but in Tulsa. It was a her. She lived in her office and saw patients 24/7. Xanax, Norco, and prometh/codeine. Eventually got busted. There is a good story about a doctor in Oklahoma City who was busted as running a fake pain clinic and had his medical license revoked. He blamed it on racism.
No.
"The three drugs include: hydrocodone, a narcotic known by brand names like Vicodin; alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drug known as Xanax; and carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant known as Soma.
Dr. C.M. Schade, past president of the Texas Pain Society, says he knows of no legitimate medical reason for a doctor to prescribe all three together."
How else do you treat "terribly sad life syndrome"? Or, after I put on my flame suit, fibro,migraines, and/or chronic fatigue?
I don't know if I work in an unusual area, or maybe I don't work enough retail, but I have never seen this combination. I could maybe see if for short term use (the person needing pain medicine & a muscle relaxer for a physician condition, and needing Xanax PRN until her SSRI kicked in....) But long-term? I'd want to see it prescribed by some big-shot expert, not by a rank & file FP or internist doctor or NP.
Yes it does. It gets you high as balls.
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I also see this a lot. A psych NP in my town is notorious for questionable prescriptions and she writes for this combination daily, practically...everyone in town has unquestioningly filled her prescriptions forever.
I like taking those with a few shots of scotch after a day of good work.
I imagine it works even better for you after a bad day of work.
NP's.....there are some fantastic NP's, my doctor uses NP, an NP even delivered at least a couple of my children. And I have seen wonky things from MD's, but consistently the craziest stuff I see comes from NP's, while DO/MD training seems more standardized, it really seems NP training is all over the board depending on the program they went through.
