We spent a whole hour talking, went over a lot, my history, which includes no drug abuse outside of smoking nicotine, some weed, and drinking alcohol.
She ended by saying we’d need to form a longer relationship, and, that I’d need to submit to regular drug tests.
Considering my history, the only thing I can come to, is that she’s irrational about weed, or, she’s making assumptions about my addiction risk thanks to autism.
She lied to me, and told me regular drug tests were standard for Vyvanse, having looked this up, I knew that wasn’t true, I turned her down and asked to work with someone else. I don’t care to submit to this sort of control. I’m upset that someone like her was in a position of power, now I have to wait for the VA to assign me another doc… Great, cool, I guess my life will remain on hold because someone with conservative views about drugs and autism is in a position they shouldn’t be.
Don’t tell me I should just do it, I have standards, and I looked this up.
Find somewhere to report this person. Lying to a patient about the requirements for being prescribed a particular drug is reprehensible.
It’s probably not a lie as this is a common drug of abuse. This might be a policy of their employer.
According to OP, this is a VA doctor. I will defer to OP for knowing what the active military standards are here (… having looked this up, I knew that wasn’t true …). If OP is no longer active military, then whatever drug testing a private employer requires are utterly outside the bounds of what a VA doctor would even know about, let alone have the authority to enforce.
My son, also on the spectrum, but not associated with any branch of the military, takes Vyvance. There was never any mention of any kind of required drug testing.
Sorry, when I said their employer, I meant the employer of the provider. I didn’t catch the VA part. It’s likely to be much more stringent in a government program.
Fair enough - I’ll still defer to OP for the “looking up” part of it, and take them at their word. Worth a deeper investigation, though, I bet.