I am friends with an ex heroin addict, who is still on a methadone prescription. Her prescriptions are all sent to a pharmacy in town A. She lived there until last year, then after temporary homelessness moved in with family in city B. Her drugs worker and prescription remain in city A, as it's apparently rather hard to switch and they were in a depressive bout at the time.
She's been trying to contact both the drugs worker and gp before today, with no success. Hopefully she can get through to the drugs worker (GP won't deal with methadone) and get it moved to town B soon, but she says it could take weeks. Methadone is a mucher harder prescription to shift to a different place (I'm told anyway, this really isn't a 'friend' that's me!) and the chemist in city A has several months worth of prescriptions.
This is not a short journey, about 50 odd miles each way, but weekly, rather than daily, collection.
What does she do now? I said that I thought this would come under medical necessity and be ok, if far from ideal. She is a hysterical mess and thinks she will be forced through a horrific withdrawal, on her own, with no medical attention. Surely I'm right?
From experience with my addict mother, there is every chance that she's correct, and it will take quite a few weeks to get this moved. She also doesn't have an actual home (sofa at a brothers), to be registered at for a new drugs project thing in the city 
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How the fuck does this work?