Woman dies after being cut off of pain medication

When her prescriptions were cut off, Davis was advised she needed to go to a pain management clinic, but every one she tried said they couldn’t help her, Grosz said. Davis was then advised to go to a methadone clinic, a facility where people with opioid dependency go to receive medication-based treatment therapy. With no openings at local clinics, Davis traveled to Allentown every day for six months. Eventually, she was able to start going to a clinic in Plains Twp., he said.

Grosz said he would occasionally drive Davis to the clinic and found out some drug dealers were targeting those seeking to stay clean.

“You see drug deals in the parking lot,” Grosz said. “People are asking for rides to take them to their dealers right after getting their treatment.”

In the months before her death, Davis and her husband were taking care of her ill mother at their Wilkes-Barre home.

Davis was thought to be doing well.

Then one day Grosz got a phone call from Davis’ husband, saying “She’s dead. She’s gone.”

He assumed it was his mother.

“No, your sister,” Davis’ husband said.

Family looked through Davis’ text messages and discovered she had been trading prescriptions, including Klonopin, with another man for drugs.

Davis was taking Klonopin — a benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety, panic attacks and seizures — as a replacement for methadone, which was causing her severe heart problems, Grosz said.

Davis’ family believes she took a large dose of methadone, which is an opioid, like heroin, and it proved to be a fatal when mixed with Klonopin.

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