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CPA

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Try getting good allergy medicine. It's outright ridiculous.
 

Imp

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Ya, god damn guberment. Booo guberment. Boooooooo.

Seriously... They wanted to verify a god damn prescription. They didn't call the DEA on you and raid your house. They didn't make you spill your entire supply of medicine. Shit happens.

If they never verified prescriptions with controlled substances, no one would need a dealer. Just get your sick friend to "spill" his medicine 50 times in a row.
 
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Dannar26

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

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

Rakehellion

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bingo.

it would be a hell of lot easier if she could change herself, feed herself, and put herself to sleep, but those duties don't stop when you're sick.

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.
 

Imp

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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.

Is anyone actually sure it's DEA policy?

Even if it is, is anyone sure that pharmacies in general wouldn't willfully use a similar verification process just because they don't want to freely hand out potentially addictive and dangerous substances? Ya know, maybe pharmacists know something about drug abusers with decades of experience operating drug dispensaries 24/7/365...
 

lupi

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Both me and the wifey had to get some codeine syrup bottles last year, we were later sent a note from the insurance company that they were limiting the size of some medications and we had been issued one of them, and it listed the cough syrup.
 

Skel

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Most pharmacies are open until around 10, though there are thousands of 24 hour pharmacies all over the country.

The pharmacy didn't want to fill it because they got a "DUR" interaction for duplicate therapy. So, in order to not get reamed in the ass without lube by the DEA, they offered to call your doc to verify it's real. (DEA has cracked down on pharmacies not cockblocking people hard enough for controlled substances)

While very few doctors have office hours going beyond 8pm, most, if not all, have an answering service for emergencies.


You can blame the addicts, or you can blame the federal government. Take your pick.


yeah it sucks.

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


These.. Due to the people abusing medications it's becoming harder and harder to get proper treatment as decided by a doctor. The DEA have really hit the pharmacies hard in recent months and have fined the hell of out a couple of them (Costco and Walgreens) for filling prescriptions and not following the entire process set forth by the DEA, which is becoming ridicules for people with chronic pain. As a result chronic pain suffers are being fucked. As it currently stands (at least in my area) Costco won't touch a prescription for opiate medications over a certain dosage. Walgreen's can't order more than a certain number of pills a month and have to turn away some people if they run out. While it sounds like a good thing for people who only get a 30 count pill filed once in a blue moon, that pain suffer who can't function without medication help is fucked.

For the OP: I get mistakes happen and bottles of meds get dropped on the floor. The pharmacy you went to wasn't wrong to call it in, they'd get fined to hell and back if they didn't. At least you were able to just have a phone call. I have a friend in pain management who's house was broken into. Among the things stolen was his medication. He was unable to get a refill as the pharmacy wasn't able due to DEA rules. This was even with the police report. There were a lot of hoops jumped through before he was able to get help. If he hadn't he would have had a really rough month.
 

MrDudeMan

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He went to the store with money in hand. The store had stock. Who's fault was it he didn't get what he wanted?

What kind of backward-ass logic is this? So, as long as you have legal tender and show up in person, they should have to give you whatever you want? He left before they could even make the phone call, which likely would have ended up with him getting what he wanted. There's no government problem here. There's an OP-is-a-dumbass problem here. Storming out made him look like a drug addict, not having a prescription refilled too soon.
 

Dirigible

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Nobody was being raped for fucks sake.

O noes he would've had to wait a couple minutes while the guy called it in. O no for the love of god anything but that.

But he is got his panties in a twist and left. Only person to blame here is the OP plain and freaking simple.

Not mention all this over a cough and fever LOL! Suck it the fuck up buttercup.

Really, anal rape? You couldn't come up with a Hitler analogy?

Wow, I feel for you if something like this is constitutes anal rape for you...imagine the torture that you have to go through every day.

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.
 

MaxDepth

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Same thing with our twin daughters' prescriptions. Since both are on the same medication, I usually use the same bottle. And when I call in the prescription I have to remember who's prescription is up. Because if I call or email the prescription in, they wait until I'm there to tell me I cannot have it because it is too soon for the refill.

We've since gone to another pharmacy where they know who we are and work with me to get the prescriptions right.
 

lxskllr

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So, as long as you have legal tender and show up in person, they should have to give you whatever you want?

Yes. I'm for the legalization of everything. The FDA's scope should be limited to policing fraudulent claims. Marvin's Miracle Mercury Water, Heals cancer and AIDS! should be disallowed, but anything else is fair game. If someone wants to get fucked up on opiates, speed, or anything else, that's their issue, and not the government's.

This was a direct transaction. If the pharmacy doesn't want to make money, that's their right, but it's an unusual business model.
 

Skel

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Yes. I'm for the legalization of everything. The FDA's scope should be limited to policing fraudulent claims. Marvin's Miracle Mercury Water, Heals cancer and AIDS! should be disallowed, but anything else is fair game. If someone wants to get fucked up on opiates, speed, or anything else, that's their issue, and not the government's.

This was a direct transaction. If the pharmacy doesn't want to make money, that's their right, but it's an unusual business model.

Sadly this wasn't a direct transaction as the pharmacy needs to follow the DEA guidelines or be fined out of existence. Anything that flags the system (which filling another opiate medication would) the DEA requires an override with more paperwork behind it. There's where the direct transaction falls over.
 

lxskllr

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Sadly this wasn't a direct transaction as the pharmacy needs to follow the DEA guidelines or be fined out of existence. Anything that flags the system (which filling another opiate medication would) the DEA requires an override with more paperwork behind it. There's where the direct transaction falls over.

That's what I'm saying. The customer has a need, the store has a product it wants to sell. Where's the wrench here gumming up the works? It's not the customer, and it's not the store...
 

Skel

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That's what I'm saying. The customer has a need, the store has a product it wants to sell. Where's the wrench here gumming up the works? It's not the customer, and it's not the store...

Sorry.. I misunderstood what you were saying. I'm in total agreement. The government has no business being involved in a health matter, which is what's happening. I'm involved with a chronic pain support group where I hear these nightmares unfolding because some jackass wants to outlaw pain medication. As they weren't able to do it straightforward we now have even more stupid things like what happened in this post.

There's a new rule where the prescription needs to start including a diagnostic code for the source health problem the prescription is for. The pharmacists can now look at that code and agree and fill the prescription or worse disagree with the treatment and refuse. The DEA wants that info so they can target doctors who may be abusing the system and over prescribing (which does happen). It's creating a lot of overhead and making a lot of people refuse to deal with it completely. This in turn fucks the guy who's in need of the medication to have a normalish life.
 

Kadarin

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So what is the point of putting codeine in cough medicine in the first place? Cough syrup needs an expectorant and a suppressant; codeine doesn't do either of these.

OP is likely chugging down some purple drank.
 

Skel

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So what is the point of putting codeine in cough medicine in the first place? Cough syrup needs an expectorant and a suppressant; codeine doesn't do either of these.

OP is likely chugging down some purple drank.

opiates are a suppressant, and it works very well as a suppressant. It's been used for hundreds of years as a suppressant, among it's other uses.
 

yhelothar

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A) Too many people abusing the stuff, which is why it started getting so much scrutiny in the first place. People making meth, or kids swallowing entire bottles of syrup to "robotrip" and getting terrible side effects in some cases.
Robotrip is done with OTC cough syrup.

The prescription stuff is still abused though. It's called sizzurp. Codeine/promethazine/sprite
 
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