I am a drug addict

[Linux23]

well, as per the DEA and their war on controlled substances.

Short story. I went to the doctor with a bad cough and fever last week. She sent me home from work, with a bottle of cough syrup and anti-biotecs and nasal spray. I think nothing of it, fill the prescription, went home, took some and the coughing finally subsided.

Unfortunately my 10 month old daughter slapped the bottle of cough medicine out of my hand and most of it fell on the floor. So I called the doctor, they make a big deal of it, had to come back in, she wrote me a prescription for something weaker, but it still was a controlled substance. Went to the pharmacy, they tell me sir, this is a controlled substance, we need to call the doctor office **even though the doctor wrote that the original was spilled** on the prescription.

I get upset (it was like 8pm), grabbed the prescription, and leave. I wind up coughing the whole night, and being so exhausted in the morning I had to call out another day from work.

All of this runaround for someone who is already sick (you can visibly see my coughing with pale skin), and being perceived as a drug abuser because the DEA is on some war of theirs. The people that really are sick and need help suffer, while these addicts can easily score a fix on the street, bypassing this whole crackdown on controlled substances.

Is this what America is turning into?

 

[lxskllr]

Is this what America is turning into?

Yes, it's a nanny state. Government are the parents you acquire after you shed your biological parents.

 

[Number1]

Just go "on the street" and get some. You're already labelled a drug addict, should be easy.

 

[waggy]

yeah it sucks.

Now try being a legit Chronic pain patient. Its even worse.

 

[Conscript]

Trying to understand how a 10 month old knocked an open bottle of cough syrup out of you hand.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Trying to understand how a 10 month old knocked an open bottle of cough syrup out of you hand.

The grip of a junkie is a feeble thing, prone to shakes and random spasms.

 

[Number1]

Yes, it's a nanny state. Government are the parents you acquire after you shed your biological parents.

We got it much better here in Canada. COugh syrup is an over the counter medicine.

In Mexico you can buy Tramadol at the airport pharmacy, no prescription required.

 

[JujuFish]

Trying to understand how a 10 month old knocked an open bottle of cough syrup out of you hand.

Sounds like an excuse a junkie would make up.

 

[Rakehellion]

(you can visibly see my coughing with pale skin)

Drug addicts tend to look that way.

 

[Rakehellion]

So I called the doctor, they make a big deal of it, had to come back in, she wrote me a prescription for something weaker, but it still was a controlled substance. Went to the pharmacy, they tell me sir, this is a controlled substance, we need to call the doctor office **even though the doctor wrote that the original was spilled** on the prescription.

No one accused you of being a drug addict, they just wanted to verify the prescription. Was this really worth a whine thread?

 

[Juddog]

well, as per the DEA and their war on controlled substances.

Short story. I went to the doctor with a bad cough and fever last week. She sent me home from work, with a bottle of cough syrup and anti-biotecs and nasal spray. I think nothing of it, fill the prescription, went home, took some and the coughing finally subsided.

Unfortunately my 10 month old daughter slapped the bottle of cough medicine out of my hand and most of it fell on the floor. So I called the doctor, they make a big deal of it, had to come back in, she wrote me a prescription for something weaker, but it still was a controlled substance. Went to the pharmacy, they tell me sir, this is a controlled substance, we need to call the doctor office **even though the doctor wrote that the original was spilled** on the prescription.

I get upset (it was like 8pm), grabbed the prescription, and leave. I wind up coughing the whole night, and being so exhausted in the morning I had to call out another day from work.

All of this runaround for someone who is already sick (you can visibly see my coughing with pale skin), and being perceived as a drug abuser because the DEA is on some war of theirs. The people that really are sick and need help suffer, while these addicts can easily score a fix on the street, bypassing this whole crackdown on controlled substances.

Is this what America is turning into?

Why did you grab the subscription and leave? That sounds like the behavior of a drug addict. You should have hung around and waited, but I guess you preferred coughing all night versus waiting 10 minutes longer?

Logic so bad it hurts...

 

[Rakehellion]

Why did you grab the subscription and leave? That sounds like the behavior of a drug addict. You should have hung around and waited, but I guess you preferred coughing all night versus waiting 10 minutes longer?

Logic so bad it hurts...

It was 8pm, so I'm guessing the office was closed.

 

[Oyeve]

Just buy some OTC cough medicine then. Codeine is not needed. crackhead.

 

[yuchai]

Try not to get the whole bottle spilled by a 10 month old next time? It shouldn't be that hard?

There are a lot of problems with the war on drugs, but this particular instance is just a fail on your end and has nothing to do with that issue.

 

[JM Aggie08]

 

[sourn]

You sound like the problem with America.

Impatient and can't take responsibility for your own failure.

 

[JTsyo]

What are you doing around a 10 month old with a fever and cough?

 

[Aharami]

What are you doing around a 10 month old with a fever and cough?

maybe he is a single dad :hmm:

 

[shortylickens]

this thread has more questions than answers.

 

[Dirigible]

It's easy to be a criminal if you've got a sick family and buy real saudades for all of them. Drug laws are out of control.

 

[SearchMaster]

I tried to buy some Allegra-D over the weekend for my son, but since it has pseudoephedrine I had to give the pharmacist my ID. She played around with the computer for 5 minutes or so and said, "I'm sorry, our computers are down so you can't buy this."

Damn, after giving my kid a dose to clear his sinuses I was going to watch some Breaking Bad on Netflix and make a few million bucks worth of meth (white not blue, bitch!). My plot was foiled by our noble government and its trusty cute henchwoman.

 

[SearchMaster]

Try not to get the whole bottle spilled by a 10 month old next time? It shouldn't be that hard?

There are a lot of problems with the war on drugs, but this particular instance is just a fail on your end and has nothing to do with that issue.

So because of an accident he should suffer unnecessarily and preventably for the next week? Some people live perfect lives, the rest of us live in the real world.

 

[Linux23]

Trying to understand how a 10 month old knocked an open bottle of cough syrup out of you hand.

what's there to understand? shit happens. not everything goes 100% as planned everyday. this is called the real world.

 

[Linux23]

No one accused you of being a drug addict, they just wanted to verify the prescription. Was this really worth a whine thread?

not whining, just trying to understand the obstruction of a law abiding citizen, with a legitimate prescription, when they are clearly sick and coughing up a storm in front of everyone in the pharmacy.

but if i were truly seeking a fix, i could just go out and get it on the streets. how are they truly preventing prescription drug abuse?

 

[Linux23]

Why did you grab the subscription and leave? That sounds like the behavior of a drug addict. You should have hung around and waited, but I guess you preferred coughing all night versus waiting 10 minutes longer?

Logic so bad it hurts...

it was after 8pm you dope.