Dan Fiscus yes it is their business. It is in fact why they study meds and how they work in the body.

Amen to that CDC also got caught lying about patients labeled as druggies and junkies in the medical records. And the pharmacy was lied about me as a druggies which I'm not one. Judge called CDC MDH lier's as well ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹. 😮😊

Being an addict does NOT make me a bad person. I've been in recovery for 9 years now and I plan to use the degree i'm working on to help addicts. End the stigma and maybe people will start asking for help.

@@katywright8161 Katy its the ignorant and uneducated people who think that. It's a sickness and no it doesn't make anyone "a bad person".

@@dsharise784 I appreciate that. I agree 100%

Addicts are not bad people, they simply have the disease of addiction. And when you have the disease of addiction you will like manipulate steel do anything for your drug of choice. We are very sick but we are not bad people, You just never know you could be in a relationship with or being taught by or driving right behind or being pulled over bye an addict and active addiction or not active addiction. Because addiction does not discriminate. I'm a very good person I'm 6 years and 11 months with no mind altering substances we do recover but we're not bad we're just sick

Pill box is good

Rite Aid is as bad if not worse than Walgreens.

Anyone know a good pharmacy in Arizona. I am a chronic pain patient. From 40 surgeries in my spinal cord & I’m only 23 years old at the moment

Walgreens bought out Rite Aid. They used to be great but not anymore.

@@elizabethvargas1194 wya ?

Surprisingly, the pharmacy staff at the Walgreens I go to like to try and know every customer by name to make them feel more at home. Don't know how they do it, but they're successful for the most part except for brand-new employees. First time they knew me when I walked in totally caught me off guard. I was like, "Uhhh, I obviously come in here WAY TOO MUCH!" That's when they told me their policy. They're all nice too. No problems yet filling my tramadol which I've been on for several years for osteoarthritis. Praying they won't one day suddenly refuse to fill it, cos I can't take anti-inflammatory meds due to kidney disease.

@Jimmy Valentine you're a rude asshole no pain meds for you

@Jimmy Valentine you're still an asshole even if you didn't ask for it

@Jimmy Valentine you're also an even bigger idiot for putting other people down over a simple mistake

@Jimmy Valentine uh huh good day sir

I've had walgreens make me get a new prescription because they didn't like the handwriting on it, said my doctor writes too sloppy, it was the same medication and amount and prescription and doctor I've had for years. Anything to exert their power

The CDC has a lot to do with this anti-pain med hysteria, so does the media. The former head of the CDC allowed PROP, an rabid anti-opioid lobbying group, to run over the civil and human rights of Americans all across the country. There is a new head to the CDC and there will be a new head of the FDA soon too. Hoping to be able to have my doctor treat my chronic pain without being treated like a criminal. Drug abusers did the damage, chronic pain patients pay for what others are doing. This is supposed to be a free country. Only 2% of people get addicted, kids playing with opioids overdose by misusing these meds. That leaves the vast majority of people out there now deprived of pain management.

First off if a doctor prescribes medicine i do not think a sinple pharmacist can say yes or no about a script if a doctor with a legit license wrote it. A.doctor knowd way more about their own patients then a pharmacist does. Do your job fill the script and thats that... Don't play doctor when you are not one or you would be one? In Pennsylvania the director of the opiate abuse control said that they screwed up and made heroin ten times more abundant. Instead of taking a scaple she said they took a hatchet. Exact words. So in other words by taking pain meds away ppl are overdosing on heroin and fentanyl ten time more then pain killers ever did. I had a doctor prescribing me and alot of ppl w.e we.wanted. I was on 210 oxycodone 30mgs and 120 oxycodone 15mgs and 90 2mg xanax and hes in federal prison now for.12yrs. He said he would prescribe me so much so I didn't die off street drugs. Well when he went to jail heroin was never more prevalent or more used by ppl. Before this I've never even heard or seen it. And all those pills I was getting were jot half as strong as street heroin. There making monsters... Everything should be legal. The law is the police control you and your body and can put you in jail for putting something inside your own body.? That sounds like Nazi Germany. So if someone tries to slit their wrist or tries hanging themselves and survives they should be put in jail to??? Makes no sense. We have free will.

Eve. So very true. My Son had Cancer. He was 39 years of age. The Pharmacy told him, he had two days to wait for his small pain meds. He than took to the streets, and found a Dealer that sold him fake heroin, that was pure Car Fentonyl I don't know how to spell that word, it;s enough to take down a Elephant made in America, and China for large animals. He died alone. Even though he was dying from the cancer, I just can't believe how very Cold and Smug people have become towards Cancer Pain. It;s like they are Playing gods.

Absolutely disgusting - you have my deepest sympathies. However, the U.S. is not the only country with such draconian laws. As of tomorrow (1/2/18), the Australian Federal Govt. will implement legislation banning pharmacy's from selling ANY medication containing codeine, unless you have a script from a doctor. Their reasoning - 175 people OD'ed on codeine in 2015/16. As the average waiting time to see a GP in Aust. major cities is 8 working days (28 days in rural areas), 1000's of people will endure pain/congest hospital ED's, etc. all for a $6 packet of 'strong' pain relief, or, consume vast amounts of paracetamol (liver toxicity/failure) and,or, anti-inflammatory tablets (gastro-intestinal disease). As mentioned above, they've carpet bombing/blitzkrieg'd instead of trying a 'precision guided missile'..

Wow you're an absolute La La Land are you why don't you look on KZfaq a little more about where all the stuff started and how they wanted this for humans for depopulation why don't you open up a fucking book could do some reading for change brother and commenting on shit you have no idea nothing absolutely nothing about any of this damn idiot

Mister Freeze If you stay with one pharmacy, one chain every month they will be expecting to see you every four wks and (at my store anyways) this will highly reduce problems receiving your medications.

Here I’m crying and clearly you have much more reason too. My husband died from wegeners granulomatosis. I’ve never witnessed a sicker man and he was only 23, barely. Don’t quit you have life in you and know there are many supporters in your corner. Shame on these paranoid losers and shame on the perception our country has for strong individuals such as you and my husband. I have Psoriatic Arthritis and deal with enough from that but it angers me when others who face far more than me suffer, you are stronger than most and I hope you know it!

I'm sorry you're going through this pain.

rochelle123ist Yep! They sure can! I've never had an issue at CVS but HAVE had issues at Walgreens.

Yes. They can refuse to fill any script. But most will not to keep their jobs. Only problems occur when you pharmacy shop and go to multiple doctors for pain meds. Like why would you need 20 nor of when you just picked up 120 Percocet. Yah that shit won’t fly.

I don't use CVS or Walgreens or walmart.i like small independent pharmacy. Very nice and they try to help you

Agreed

valkor73 I agree with you on that one. I am prescribed Ritalin generic prescription for ADD/ADHD Symptoms and they refuse to refill it or deny that they have it.

valkor73 I look at Walgreens a good pharmacy in my opinion. CVS pharmacy is good, too.

Kerry Goossens I also use CVS and have never had a problem either.

I dislike Walgreens. They’re as bad as Walmart on time and rude.

I also use CVS.

Heroin is broken down into morphine in the body, opiods are isolated or altered chemicals that originate in opium. They're all the same thing just different doses. Heroin is sold in 100mg bags for 10 dollars on the street. Oxycontin was sold in 80mg doses at the pharmacy for 10 dollars. You wouldn't know the difference if someone switched one for the other as long as the heroin was pure straight heroin and not diluted or other drug.

Absolutely, I have stayed with the same Walgreens for 10 yrs and they know me well and are very good about making sure I have my medication. I also never fill early , stay with one dr , I use ONLY one pharmacy.

Why should someone who has real solid evidence clearly explaining the medical diagnostic that gives a valid reason to fill a 30mg oxycodone script??? Keep in mind that all 30+ pharmacies have all been giving this individual the SAME EXACT RUN AROUND OF an answer…which is “Sorry we don’t have these meds & we cannot order these medications either…try the pharmacy down the block, I’m confident that they might be able to” Wtf

Please give your most truthful dedicated and up to date response!! Also Please be specific Thank you very much!!!

@@ariss9241 tomorrow.

I know how it fills to I am to a TI to they get you when you are a kid about the age they got me was 8 years old i know all to much about pain in my live to i have tumors in my spine chord I have had to spinal cord surgery disk Fusion and no fucking help at all you tal the Dr that you don't fill writ they look at you like you a lieing pise of shit they all need to go back to med school and get a new degree fuck . and then you can't work know more so you try to get ssa your ssi and they done want to give you your money it not my fault that I had did it ask to see what had saw so i am going to put up with the gang stalking till the day I die

NAT HOW I don't know if you've ever heard of David Wilkerson who was the founder of Teen Challenge and many many other organizations that helped the worlds most hurting people. I also suffer chronic pain in my back hips and legs but cannot get rid of the pain. I was cut off my pain meds for no reason given at all. but I have been curious to find David wilkerson's Son Gary Wilkerson testimony to how God healed him after a broken back and he no longer had pain and no longer had to take the meds. if anybody finds that specific story before I do please let me know. what caught my attention about your post was you said you prayed or wish that God would take you home so you're suffering would end. I read that in the Bible somewhere that there will be no more pain in heaven with God where Jesus is the light

NAT HOW look into kratom ☺

You have become opioid intolerant and it’s no longer working for your pain. After 8 surgeries myself, I became the same way. My Dr put me on a time released pain patch with my pills, which I break into twos and instead of taking one every 8 hours I take one half every 4 hours. This has been much better for managing my pain. I also manage my diet, my weight, and monitor my blood work closely. Please don’t give up Nicole!!

jamie johnson but they do

I tell everybody to avoid using Walgreens as their pharmacy because there are simply too many consistent stories about their invasive and discriminatory policies when it comes to filling prescriptions. They make it a giant hassle if they don't outright refuse to fill it. I've had experiences in the past trying to fill something like a single no-refill Hydrocodone prescription and was interrogated by the pharmacist in front of other customers like I was doing something wrong. It was wholly embarrassing and like you said, there is no effective means of filing a complaint. I recall this sort of thing happening a few times in my life because Walgreens was the closest and most convenient place to fulfill my prescriptions at the time. Even my own mother was grilled by a Walgreens pharmacist for trying to fill her Xanax prescription when she rarely ever refilled since she only took it as-needed for panic attacks and anxiety. The pharmacist refused to fill it until she insisted she speak to my mother's doctor, and apparently her doctor was extremely displeased and told the pharmacist what time it was to do her job and let the doctor do his job. I can understand if pharmacists have to look out for liability when they come across obviously suspicious prescriptions like OxyContin 80mgs with a number of refills to record a follow-up for their records, but giving people a ton of shit or refusing to fulfill their normal pain medication prescriptions is only hurting people and perpetuating the opioid crisis since people in pain *will* often go to the street to find reprieve if a pharmacist will not dispense their medicine.

Look up HIPPA. When a pharmacist is in the process of filling an RX for a pt, the pharmacist is deemed responsible and therefore has the right to request any information pertaining to the PT and the RX. This is a training professional attempting to attain info for a pt that is relevant to his/her practice. This is not a janitor trying to call and ask why so and so drug is prescribed for Brad Pitt.

1 RomanT it’s HIPAA, not HIPPA.

Hahaha I love the responses to this ridiculous comment.

Absolutely correct.

Tucker1Nonly Very true. They are having success overseas.

People think this idea is somehow extreme and destructive when nowadays, bootleg fentanyl analogues are flowing in the streets and causing way more problems as a consequence of these regressive and dangerous Drug War policies. You can't even find actual heroin on the streets in 2023 and even treating people for opioid dependencies from street fentanyl is much more problematic than treating addictions for heroin for example, because these fentanyl analogues are lipophilic, dangerous, and volatile substances since so little can cause a fatal overdose. That means these substances will stay in your system through your lipid membranes even if you feel severe withdrawal, making Suboxone treatment much harder for those who are suffering as it can initiate precipitated withdrawal and cause someone to immediately seek opioids to counteract it which is an overdose and death risk. It's absolute madness to know that more real heroin on the streets would save lives and yet here we are... it has only become worse than I ever imagined compared to a few years ago. People should have the right to purchase regulated and controlled substances and for government and medicine to treat addiction and dependencies as a public health problem than a criminal one. Places in Europe and elsewhere that are adopting these policies have been finding tremendous success down the board but it'll never happen here in America even as fentanyl analogues cascade over every city and kill people every day.

Especially the younger ones who are the most judgmental and ignorant

Ya I agree it can help but man the taste! Definitely an acquired taste no matter the method lol

What's it like? 10mg Roxy? 30mg roxy?

Where does one get Kratom ?

I have 9 bulging discs, my hips and bones in my butt(sacral bones I think)are degenerating with bone spurs. I have 3 discs pressing on the spine in my neck,ihave spinal and Foraminal stenosis in the lumbar region, Osteoarthritis and degenerative changes in the thoracic spine.. Kratom did not work for me.. it will help when your pharmacy cant fill the perscription.. but it doesn't do much for my pain. But I have a question what is Roxy? Is that a street name for oxycodone? I've heard this a few times but I have never heard a medical professional mentioned this before?

Natalia, i dont think its anywhere near the number one cause of death in america. If im wrong i stand corrected.

Where do you get your info? Alcohol and tobacco kill millions more than prescription pain meds. Heart disease kills more than that.And diabetes. Stupidity and ignorance kill too many and you are contributing to that with your BS statistics..Educate yourself before you try to tell people anything.

Which 'foreign country" are you afraid to name for fear of people learning your ignorance?State representatives must ok prescriptions? Laughable.

That sounds extremely shady... especially if they're recording it into their system as the full amount and billing the insurance for it. I wouldn't be shocked if someone over there was purposely shorting you and others to divert pain pills.

​@@citypopFMI had that happen to me she was taking 2 pills per month. She is no longer there

Most pharmacists nowadays actually are doctors, just not medical doctors, so...

Harper Shaw thats 4 a day whoxh isnt very much for chronic pain

Except there are pharmacists who butt-in and literally refuse to fill pain medication for legitimate patients because they have a personal bias against dispensing those drugs, or they simply don't want to risk any liability, no matter how unreasonable. There is a world of difference between a pharmacist being suspicious at someone receiving 120-count OxyCodone with 10 refills versus someone filling a single order of Hydrocodone. That's why I absolutely refuse to patronize Walgreens or Rite Aid; I've had negative experiences with them when it came to fulfillilng a single no-refill prescription and treated like I'm some sort of criminal. Even my mom was given a bunch of shit from a pharmacist over dispensing a single prescription of Clonazepam that was written by her doctor who taught at Stanford half the week. These stupid policies from the government are not solving or helping the opioid crisis when they punish regular people and patients who are fulfilling a prescription from their doctor.

Len Welch this is what people are not understanding. There are many other treatment options for chronic pain that does not involve opioids. It also only takes a short while to become addicted to pain meds. After surgery or procedures a short amount is fine. Some people spend years on these meds and then come to realize that they just can’t stop taking them.