I am a drug addict

[Red Squirrel]

That sounds like a pain in the ass. Always store medicine away from kids and pets and take it when they are not in a position to interfere.

Here it seems to be more lenient. My doctor even gave me two prescriptions for the same drug once. Told me to just hang on to the other in case I need it again later, so I don't have to go back.

 

[waggy]

You guys think I'm a moron. I think you all are morons. The internet works! That's a good job by all of us. Let's go get a beer.

fuck yah! lets go. i want some beer! you paying right?

 

[Dirigible]

fuck yah! lets go. i want some beer! you paying right?

I got you covered, waggy. You're ok. These other fucks? Well... I'll buy the first round, but the rest is up to them.



Waitaminit.... drinking beer with waggy would have a high likelihood of the evening ending in anal rape. Deal is off, waggy! Your shitty plan makes you worse than Hitler!

 

[shortylickens]

You guys think I'm a moron. I think you all are morons. The internet works! That's a good job by all of us. Let's go get a beer.

 

[Puppies04]

You forgot to mention Hitler.

and he spelt moran wrong.

 

[xSauronx]

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?

its a huge headache for people who have a legitimate needs of the drugs. my girlfriend has arthrities, bursitis, and fibromyalgia. i dont remember what meds she takes but its a pain in the ass. she cant get a super-early refill, for obvious reasons, but lets say shes going out of town about when the prescription will be empty...if she tries to get a refill and the doctor is busy or they dont get back to her, she cant make calls and act like its urgent to get her meds, the doc may cut her off and treat her like an addict (or the pharmacy might).

she got cut off once because she had an 8am appt, the doc said they had to give her a blood test to see if she had been using her meds. well..she didnt take them that day, if she used them she wouldnt have been in pain and been able to accurately tell the doc how she felt off the meds [which she understood to be the point of the visit], BUT because they werent in her system the nurse said "you are selling these and not taking them and we cannot help you any more".

insane. she has had to take pain meds for years to control her pain so she can function and work, and because assholes sell meds they dont need or abuse what they get she has to deal with headaches and hassles to keep herself from feeling like shit.

 

[JulesMaximus]

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

Yes, why should government try to do anything to curb the use of destructive drugs like meth? :whiste:

 

[waggy]

its a huge headache for people who have a legitimate needs of the drugs. my girlfriend has arthrities, bursitis, and fibromyalgia. i dont remember what meds she takes but its a pain in the ass. she cant get a super-early refill, for obvious reasons, but lets say shes going out of town about when the prescription will be empty...if she tries to get a refill and the doctor is busy or they dont get back to her, she cant make calls and act like its urgent to get her meds, the doc may cut her off and treat her like an addict (or the pharmacy might).

she got cut off once because she had an 8am appt, the doc said they had to give her a blood test to see if she had been using her meds. well..she didnt take them that day, if she used them she wouldnt have been in pain and been able to accurately tell the doc how she felt off the meds [which she understood to be the point of the visit], BUT because they werent in her system the nurse said "you are selling these and not taking them and we cannot help you any more".

insane. she has had to take pain meds for years to control her pain so she can function and work, and because assholes sell meds they dont need or abuse what they get she has to deal with headaches and hassles to keep herself from feeling like shit.

yeah its fucked up. When you go to the pain clinic you HAVE to have them in your system. But you can't have to much either.

Even though you need the pain pills you are considered a addict if you take them and a dealer if you aren't taking a bunch.

ugh

 

[lxskllr]

Yes, why should government try to do anything to curb the use of destructive drugs like meth? :whiste:

Yea, why should they? Educate people, and if they don't accept the education, they can deal with the repercussions of the path they took. Maybe people wouldn't use so much meth if coco were easier to come by...

 

[1sikbITCH]

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?

Ignorance is no excuse for lawbreaking.

 

[Conscript]

Trying to understand how non parents always entitle themselves to be know-it-all dicks about anything with kids.

I've got almost 4 year old twins, thank you. no reason I can fathom a 10 month old would be in proximity of an open bottle of medicine. Perhaps you should review your own parental skills, if you can

 

[SlowSpyder]

Yes, why should government try to do anything to curb the use of destructive drugs like meth? :whiste:

Yea, bang up job they're doing keeping people off meth. At least we're wasting billions fighting drugs, though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.svg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R..._(mean_physical_harm_and_mean_dependence).svg


I'm all for education and steering people away from using drugs. But people who want to use are going to use. Prohibition hasn't stopped things, its just caused an underground black market to emerge. How many people have died in gang wars because of drugs? How about in Mexico.

Not to mention most of the harm caused by street drugs are not because of the drug itself, but because of impurities that exist because they are made illicitly. Imagine if pharmaceutical companies had many of these drugs available, cheap at a CVS or Walgreens. No need for a black market anymore... you don't see too many turf wars over alcohol, do you?

 

[SlitheryDee]

Well to be fair, your situation is one that most people would characterize as "A likely story". That phrase comes across best in a British accent with a suitably derisive tone of voice. Imagine Jeremy Irons saying it and you're 90% of the way there.

 

[Dannar26]

I've got almost 4 year old twins, thank you. no reason I can fathom a 10 month old would be in proximity of an open bottle of medicine. Perhaps you should review your own parental skills, if you can

Congrats to your partner for raising them, because you clearly haven't been involved with the process.

At 10 months kids are crawling around and getting into everything. Or perhaps the OP was holding his daughter to console her because, I dunno, maybe she was crying (you know, that awful noise they're prone to making before you pass 'em back to whom ever is doing the real lifting in your relationship)

The OP said something about being a single dad earlier in the thread. I was sick, just like him. I had some kind of hardcore cough syrup because I was coughing so forcefully and frequently that it was causing me to literally vomit. Luckily my wife was able to look after the kids while I "nursed my wounds. " Medicine bottle and baby never came close to one another.

Did the OP have that luxury? Do these events make him irresponsible? Do babies randomly flail from time to time, especially when they want something?

No, no, yes... Behold! Your answer!

 

[Pulsar]

I know of five 24 hour pharmacies within 10 miles

I've got one 22 miles away. I also have worked extensively with several doctor 'after hours services'. These aren't immediate call backs. It generally take an hour, sometimes more. They're on call, after all. Especially out here in the boonies.

I'm glad so many people are on the side of the government. It seems to me that your primary care provider, the person most qualified to make a decision for you health, should be more than enough to get a prescription. In addition, your health insurance has to approve it (or cover it) and there are records up the wazoo as to what was prescribed.

I was in a similar situationa couple years ago. A critically important medication that I absolutely can not miss went into the lake while we were on a sailing vacation. One of the possible side effects to missing doses is permanent blindness. Because it is a controlled substance, I had to go without it for two days while they got 'approval' for an early refill on a schedule drug, resulting in a total inability to sleep, shaking, and a couple other nasty things.

Generally speaking, people who haven't ever been in a situation like that can't really understand what it's like. These kind of delays are completely unnecessary, and I can't see a single rational reason to support them.

 

[Pulsar]

I've got almost 4 year old twins, thank you. no reason I can fathom a 10 month old would be in proximity of an open bottle of medicine. Perhaps you should review your own parental skills, if you can

There are multiple times when you have to hold a child while doing something else. Holding a bottle of cough syrup and your child at the same time certainly isn't a problem. I've had my kids knock things out of my hand. I've also dropped things when they did the 'back of the head into your mouth' thing, which they all seem to do on occasion. Shit happens.

Calling his parental skills into question is idiotic.

 

[mugs]

I'm glad so many people are on the side of the government. It seems to me that your primary care provider, the person most qualified to make a decision for you health, should be more than enough to get a prescription.

They were questioning the legitimacy of the prescription, not the doctor's diagnosis. They assumed he stole a prescription pad.

 

[Conscript]

There are multiple times when you have to hold a child while doing something else. Holding a bottle of cough syrup and your child at the same time certainly isn't a problem. I've had my kids knock things out of my hand. I've also dropped things when they did the 'back of the head into your mouth' thing, which they all seem to do on occasion. Shit happens.





Calling his parental skills into question is idiotic.

sorry, just don't buy it. It takes 10 seconds for a dose of cough syrup, which generally would require 2 hands (for the cup or a spoon to measure). I guess you can dream up any farfetched scenario, but if I was a pharmacist and heard that story, I'd think someone was looking to get high. Their babies, they don't need to be held at all times, and would certainly think you could find a few seconds to take medicine unencumbered. Use all the insults and names you like, not going to change common sense.

 

[KeithTalent]

The first step is admitting it. Good luck to you. :thumbsup:

KT

 

[BUTCH1]

Dr's office's are all to familiar with the "I lost the script" deal as a ploy by real abusers to get more, they get suspicious real quick..

 

[BUTCH1]

its a huge headache for people who have a legitimate needs of the drugs. my girlfriend has arthrities, bursitis, and fibromyalgia. i dont remember what meds she takes but its a pain in the ass. she cant get a super-early refill, for obvious reasons, but lets say shes going out of town about when the prescription will be empty...if she tries to get a refill and the doctor is busy or they dont get back to her, she cant make calls and act like its urgent to get her meds, the doc may cut her off and treat her like an addict (or the pharmacy might).

she got cut off once because she had an 8am appt, the doc said they had to give her a blood test to see if she had been using her meds. well..she didnt take them that day, if she used them she wouldnt have been in pain and been able to accurately tell the doc how she felt off the meds [which she understood to be the point of the visit], BUT because they werent in her system the nurse said "you are selling these and not taking them and we cannot help you any more".

insane. she has had to take pain meds for years to control her pain so she can function and work, and because assholes sell meds they dont need or abuse what they get she has to deal with headaches and hassles to keep herself from feeling like shit.

Almost all pain management clinics test to make sure your taking the prescribed meds and I've never heard of using blood as this has to go to a lab and cannot be confirmed at a Dr's office, most all will use urine or saliva..

 

[disappoint]

I can't say I agree. Codeine should be OTC, but because of our war on drugs you have to jump through hoops to get it.

If the war on drugs at least kept people off of drugs while having spent and continuing to spend billions, then we could at least say that much. But we can't even say that.

The war on drugs is a business. Like any other business it's primary concern is making money.

If it's primary concern was to really get rid of drugs they would go after the users, not the dealers.

You can put as many dealers behind bars or 6 feet under if you want, but since there is money in it, some new dealers will just take their place.

To really get rid of drugs you have to get rid of the DEMAND. Not the supply.

 

[SlowSpyder]

The war on drugs is a business. Like any other business it's primary concern is making money.

If it's primary concern was to really get rid of drugs they would go after the users, not the dealers.

You can put as many dealers behind bars or 6 feet under if you want, but since there is money in it, some new dealers will just take their place.

To really get rid of drugs you have to get rid of the DEMAND. Not the supply.

Actually, I think doing that is what is costing so much money. Non-violent offenders being locked up because they have a controlled substance. I do agree about it being a business, though. There are a lot of government jobs that need the war on drugs, or they wouldn't exist. I'm not sure you can ever get rid of demand, people who want it will get it, one way or another.

 

[Jeff7]

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

I went to the Giant nearby to get some sudafed. (Another super-dangerous controlled substance :awe:, which is also damn good at doing is job.)

So, I need to provide name and ID.

The plainly-visible label on the drawer for those binders: "Meth books."


Would it make sense to start making meth now so that it's worthwhile? :hmm:

Goddamn gateway drugs.

Yeah, and when she's 14 and trying to sip sizzurp with her friends, you'll be glad the DEA gives a shit about prescription drug abuse.

What about the thousand other creative ways you can use to get high?
(Or just do other stupid things. I remember an article somewhere about a guy who almost died of a salt overdose after chugging a quart of soy sauce. And yet I can still purchase deadly soy sauce without an ID.)

 

[Imp]

What about the thousand other creative ways you can use to get high?
(Or just do other stupid things. I remember an article somewhere about a guy who almost died of a salt overdose after chugging a quart of soy sauce. And yet I can still purchase deadly soy sauce without an ID.)

Bad examples.

Cough syrup, the prescription kinds I've had, all taste wonderful. I'd drink that shit for breakfast if it didn't kill me -- or had to go to work.

Soy sauce tastes like shit unless diluted on food. Sniffing gasoline is weird and might set you on fire. Sniffing glue is weird and all those god damn guberment mandated toxic and flammable labels are a deterrant -- god damn guberment. Same goes for toilet cleaners and bleach.

Alcohol tastes like shit too, but it's legal and doesn't have any threatening warning labels on the bottles.