Hi BKR:
Crap. I just wrote a huge long post and lost it. Sorry. I'm not in NY.
My advice was this: You CAN get your life back. You CAN get off opiates. No matter whether you find a doc to wean you or not, you are going to feel like crap when you withdraw.
The best thing would be to postpone the job a couple of weeks to detox. At home or otherwise. No matter where you do it, you'll feel really sick for a week with extreme lethargy, stomach upset, hot and cold sweats, crazy racing thoughts, insomnia, body aches, body restlessness, just bad stuff.
Hey, detox is necessary to get off opiates. Either cold turkey, weaning, or substituting another drug for the opiates. I couldn't wean, and I didn't want another drug to get off later, so I did CT 9 months ago.
Good luck. I feel so sorry for your situation. Why not just get this overwith. A lot of success in detox depends on your willingness to do the "work" of recovery. If you aren't ready to get sick and have no energy for awhile, it isn't going to work.
FT