I’m a chronic pain patient I’m 23 years old & I’ve had 40 surgeries in my spinal cord. Been on pain medication for 4 years now & Walgreens has done this to me 2 times already since the laws changed. Some of us are really in pain & we don’t abuse it.
"Why is this patient taking this medication?" Ummm because the doctor prescribed it. Pharmacists need to stay on the pharmacy side of healthcare and the FDA and DEA need to stay out of me and my doctor's decisions about my care.
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 ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹. 😮😊
Don't go to Walgreens or CVS. They are the WORST. If you CAN, go to a "mom and pop" pharmacy. If you don't have any of those close enough for you, consider Rite Aid. People rarely have problems with them.
The CDC just took some major steps to make the lives or chronic pain sufferers more miserable than it already is. Google up some of the headlines with the CDC & opioids in the past couple of weeks and you will see. But back to the topic, Walgreens has made my day worse on many an occasion. They seems to change their guidelines as often as the time comes in and out. And yes, when there is an issue, they question you in front of all to see & hear.....with NO RESPECT TO YOUR PRIVACY. So much for HIPAA protecting our rights. At times, I wish those who made these decisions could spend a day or so dealing with chronic pain. I bet things would change, but.....we know that is just a dream that will never happen. So, bend over.....here it comes again.
I have considerd suicide at times due to this. Never abused pills. Have legitimate spinal disease, titanium neck plate, spinal cord stimulator and have cried so many time I can't count due to pain. These bastards are killing people under medicating them. I have fought through the sefl harm thoughts but I pity others worse than me who are not as mentally strong.
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!
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.
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
I think the doctor towards the end of the post said it best when describing the problems the government has created by forcing extra scrutiny back upon the pharmacy....he commented that as a doctor, "....for us, it's an inconvenience, for the patient - it's suffering."
Walmart tried to call my doctor and began to tell the doctor what he can or can't prescribe. My doctor told the pharmacist," if you want to give out medical advice go to medical school and get a degree, you are pharmacist, all you need to know how to do is count to 100 and make change for a dollar". So Walmart will not fill any prescriptions from my Dr. The only reason the pharmacist would give "I cannot fill your prescription" When I asked him why he replied "I cannot tell you why, it is just against my professional judgement" Boycott: Walmart, Walgreens,and CVS. They all have been caught fraudulently filling prescriptions in Florida, and we're fined millions along with the distributor for the region.
A lot of people don't know that a heroin overdose is counted as a opioid overdose they started doing this a few years back and when they did it made the numbers of opioid deaths Spike.
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.
This really sucks for people that need it. Not only are they going to be in pain, but on top of it they have to unfairly go through horrendous withdrawals.
This happens to me every month. I’m so sick of it. They give me the run around about my medicine, why do I have to go through this? I’m not sure what the problem is when I’m taking my medicine EXACTLY LIKE ITS PRESCRIBED. My blood work is done every three months and looks beautiful, I’m waiting on my next back surgery and I don’t need to get punished for the addicts! I should not have to complain and argue with the pharmacist who nit picks apart my script every month looking for a reason to reject it. It’s some who really cause problems for all!
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
i have one of the most severe cases of chrons disease that my GI doctor has ever seen. i go to pain management tomorrow. It's gotten so severe that Im usually in a ball in my bed. An ambulance brought me to the ER two weeks ago. after houre of agonizing pain and vomiting the hospital gave me hydration and morphine. he told me that my medication needs to be changed because it is no longer working. All I want is pain relief and steroids for flare ups. im a widow raising a small child, when Im headed back to the hospital he says "Not this again!". I've had this disease since I was 7 years old and Im now 53. Something's goota give!
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.
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 RUclips 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
I've been going to a Walgreens down the street for over 10 years. I known the pharmacist that works in the morning very well. I have always been very polite to her, even when a situation happened, where the pharmacy was at fault. A few years ago I had to get a pain script filled because, I had just went to the dentist and got a root canal. She just so happen to be covering the register because, it was lunch and the assistants were not there at the time. She was all smiles until she looked down and read my script. I was shocked because I've never seen someone's smile disappear so fast, and I've never even seen her with a straight face. She said hold on, I have to go check in the back if we have any. They keep the pain meds under lock and key, which I do not blame them. However, even if they have just checked for someone a few minutes before you, they play dumb, and still say the same thing. Anyway, when she came back, she rudely told me sorry we're all out. I asked her if she could call any Walgreens, and ask them if they have a supply. What she has done in the past for me. She said sorry we're not allowed to do that, and a bunch of other B.S. it took months for her to forget about it, and treat me the way she used to in the past. In my opinion, people love to judge other people. LOL
Same shit here in Fla. with Wallgreens, they actually have a sign in the drive thru that says,,, Pain medication will be filled or denied at their discretion! In other words, if they simply don't like the way you look, they can refuse you. I am a male with long hair and have been turned down and lied to so many times, I took my business elsewhere. I don't have time for games, I need my medication to be able to work and provide for my family. Disgusting people should be treated in such a way, especially with all the things we must go through to simply prove to the Dr. That we have a ligament illness or injury we suffer from,, and still, they don't want to prescribe a decent painkiller! Just insane and very wrong,, :(
I feel lucky that Walgreens filled my Norco script today. Last month they couldn't because they said it was on back order. I had to drive 30 miles to another Walgreens to get it filled last month. The government is making the problem worse.
Walgreens is the worst. They try and do the doctor's job. I have had the same doctor and meds and diagnosis for 10 years, nothing never changed. My doctor lit into a walgreens pharmacist. Once the pharm felt embarrassed they refused to fill any medication for any member of my family. There were supplements, antibiotics, inhalers... also my daughters seizure meds.This was in CA. I now live in Muncie IN. I will never use Walgreens because the discrimination. Its one thing to be that way to an adult. But to a childs much needed med because a doctor lit into a unprofessional pharmacist. Walgreens is the worst. There is no customer service to report a pharmacist. Im sure, if you do the pharmacist will take revenge and put a red flag in your records. Some pharmacist are really unprofessional. I have had walgreens give me someone elses meds also talk about other peoples issues and meds against hippa rules (pharmacists not an aid). If you need to make a complaint about the pharmacy you talk to the boss which is the pharmacist. If the complaint is about the boss. Your 💩 out of luck. Avoid walgreens.
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.
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
This is Walgreens, the do good pharmacy. Yes it is legal for them to contact your doctor but they cannot disclose your medical information - such as a pharmacy tech. They also cannot discuss your medical history while you are in line with other customers around - they can ask to go to a side location & speak to you in private. They cannot announce the name of your medications to other cus
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.
So should my surgical oncologist be arrested for writing me a prescription for OxyContin? I had cancer 2 years ago and surgery that could not be done minimally invasively? Fuck Walgreens I will never get another prescription there again!
As a pain patient due to medical malpractice,I left Walgreen after 7 years. I was treated as a keeper by a person I consider a person who understood my way of life(100% disabled ,will get worse with age) I left with no warning ,i just to my doctor I was changing pharmcey to better fill all my meds.
I’m a RN, now disabled. I have chronic pain. I’ve been on Oxy for years. Walgreens won’t fill my RX, even though I have MD RX. You can’t just stop Oxy without horrible symptoms. Do not rely on Walgreens if you need medications.
I just want to pass over to heaven, and let our creator take care of my pain that I endure so much. My pain meds are not working. This is a total nightmare. When I go to the ER, they yell at me and abuse me. And they refuse to take me out of pain. I was born with chronic pancreatitis, and they just don't get how much pain I really am in. I can't take how I am treated by the ER staff. I noticed the change in 2007. How can pain meds get worse? They are so weak. How do doctors become dumb? I am so fucked up in the head now, because they won't help my horrible pain. I feel like it is being done to me un-purpose. Help me God!!!!! I have researched what I know. and it is gang stalking. Google it...It is so sad that I have fallen in this trap. I am suffering physically, but they think it is mental. So they haul me off to the mental ward, and there I get no treatment for my pain. So I suffer! It is so disgusting how we are being treated as drug seekers. And that is far from the truth.
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
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!!
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.
Pharmacies calling to confirm that a prescription is not forged or altered is fine, if the pharmacist has a legitimate reason to suspect prescription fraud. More and more often, though, pharmacists seek to play medical doctor by asking prescribing doctors detailed questions about the patient's treated conditions. Not to put too fine of a point on it, but pharmacists are not MDs or DOs, and their actual training regarding the pathophysiology and treatment of disease and injury is minuscule. Doctors spend four years of pre-med, four years of med school, and, in the case of my wife (neurologist) and many other specialists, four or more years after medical school in a relentless residency training. Pharmacists have one or two classes that don't even scratch the surface of the rigorous training that doctors receive. For pharmacists to pretend to have the ability to question a medical doctor's best judgment of treatment is pure arrogance and hubris, unless a prescription is outrageously inappropriate and excessive, prima facie. The vast majority of calls that my wife receives from pharmacists regarding the appropriateness of medications that she has prescribed are plain ridiculous (and it's not just a painkiller issue, since my wife very rarely prescribes opioids, but still is frequently interrupted by silly calls from pharmacies), and the calls just add to the onerous work demands already heaped on physicians through ridiculously excessive documentation and paperwork requirements. My wife already barely sees our son and myself, working 75 to 90 hours per week for a 40 hour salary. There are pharmacists in our extended families, so I have personal familiarity with the vast gulf that exists between what a pharmacist thinks that he or she knows about medical conditions and what he or she actually does know. We are talking about a profession where a majority of its practitioners believe in and recommend homeopathic treatments, which science has long ago completely debunked. Pharmacists should just work their tidy little eight or ten hour shifts, count pills, alert prescribers to possible dangerous or rare drug interactions (of which the MD is typically aware anyway), watch out for forged or altered prescriptions, dispense information about the medications and side effects to patients, and collect their insanely lucrative pay. And please, please stop pretending to be medical doctors.
you are actually wrong.. Pharmacist receive a lot of training in disease states, guidelines for appropriate treatments, and appropriate dosing. What pharmacist lack is training in diagnosing pts, which is why the prescriber is contacted.
+dragonboyjohnny. You micro-pricked stack of shit. Who in the fucking hell do you think you are to determine what meds are outside of an MD's scope of practice? Hell, a psychiatrist can perform heart surgery if he or she wishes. MDs can practice any type of medicine that they wish and prescribe, on or off label, whichever meds they wish. Dentists, vets, podiatrists, and optometrists are strictly limited in their prescribing. My god, you really show your ignorance. Most PharmD programs are three years long, and your so called residencies are motherfucking cakewalks. You are not dealing with a simpleton here. My WAIS-R IQ is 168. Stop lying and exaggerating. You represent the absolute nadir of pharmacists, which is saying something.
ewtubewatcher Loved your comment !!! Very quick and smart and gave me a good giggle !! Yes, this person must have been told " oh, sorry, we are all out of chill pills ( knowing damn well that they are stocked with their allotted amount ) But, they can make these judgements without even calling your doctor. Hmmmmmmmmm, sounds fishy to me I have NO problem with them calling so they can save their license.... absolutely ! That seems legit. BUT.... I am legit too. So I smile and introduce myself to the pharmacist, because we're going to have to get along aren't we ? Because in the end, your just going to have to fill my script 😂
voitdive , I am definitely not "above question or review". Part of fair review is my right to rebut my critic's assertions. One reason for the length of my posts is that, in my PhD training, I learned that thorough statements can often preempt potential arguments from others, provided that people actually read and process the content of my argument. The fact that you have not asked me anything pertinent to what I have established in my "screeds" is, I believe, revealing. You have no data or experience sufficient to contradict my assertions. Once you have a cogent and relevant question or criticism of anything I wrote, by all means present your argument. I promise to limit the length of my response and limit myself to one and two syllable words, so my reply does not exhaust or confuse you.
this drug game has gotten out of linr..just legalize everything and sell it to people so they dknt have to break the law to get it..cause no matter the risk there gonna get it!
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.
so, the pharmacy (Walgreen's) can ask a boatload of questions about a patient filling a prescription (gotta be a HIPPA violation in there, somewhere) . however, they're not at liberty to speak to a reporter on the matter. how free is this country getting? free enough to do what you're told, and obey!
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.
My local Walgreens tell me they're "out", whether its a controlled medication or insulin, others as well, when a friend of mine who works with the chain that they're actually not.
AND WHEN SOME ONE DIE'S FROM NOT GETTING THERE MEDS DO TO HEART PROBLEMS OR OTHER PROBLEMS 2ND TO THE PAIN MEDS GUESS WHO'S GETTING SUED EVEN KNOW THAT DOE'S NOT BRING BACK A LOVE ONE
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?
why does my gut tell me this isn't about the welfare of the american ppl.It is about control by fear ..but why?...Any man or women who can stand by and watch a patient bedridden in horrible pain that rots the mind and body and do nothing g will eventually lose his soul..his compassion and become bankrupt morally.
Benzos are completely fine and extremely helpful if you take them as needed. If you shovel them into your mouth every single day for a long-enough time, yeah, you will build a dependency because you're taking them irresponsibly. That shouldn't mean everyone else should be punished and denied having them. I have epilepsy and since moving back to Los Angeles from the Bay Area, I cannot find one doctor who will write me a prescription for Clonazepam which I was receiving up North from an extremely credible and decorated physician who taught at Stanford half of his week. It's absolutely ridiculous and affects my quality of life. My mom used to receive Xanax and she cannot find a doctor who will do it these days, and she only refilled a bottle maybe twice a year at the most. Most people are not going to become drug addicts or develop dependencies on these drugs especially if they're prescribed for legitimate reasons.
Go to your mom and pop pharmacy's are better chains of stores CVS is the worst. If the pharmacist knows toy I go to the same Walgreens every month but know switched to Kroger. If you have Giant Eagle or Kroger their pharmacists know what they are doing. That's why go to a creditable physician that can fax your Schedule II substances in to the pharmacy with a special DEA number. This electronic Script system helps keep these meds out of the wrong hands. Build a relationship with you pharmacists get to know them by name deal with the same people every month no problems. If they want diagnosis history give them the doctors report when you get you meds filled if at Walgreens 8600 stores they will have it on file and you won't be harassed they will document that in the computers insist on a printout and make sure your drug allergies are up to date. This is called building a relationship with the pharmacist and the pharmacy. To keep phony scripts down the doctors shouldn't hand write or call in the script should be electorally submitted tot the pharmacy to insure the pharmacy isn't getting ripped off by scammers or pill pushing doctors. Thanks OBAMA CARE
I’m not sticking up for Walgreens. But bottom line The decision ends at the discretion of the pharmacist. If he or she doesn’t want to refill your prescription without more information pertaining to your diagnosis and chronic condition then they have the right to refuse you. Trust me I’ve been through the ringer since the wtc collapse when I fractured my hip. Just answer the questions honestly and get your meds. Or act stupid and drive to another pharmacy over and over again.
While I don't like that the woman felt ashamed, I'm glad that the mentality is finally changing. If you're taking a narcotic then the pharmacist has the medically ethical obligation to periodically check in with the doctor before dispensing the #1 cause for death in America. I live in a foreign country and here you need a state representative to authorize all high-level narcotics except for methylphenidate. It's a pain but it keeps doctor's in check.
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.
Every month Walgreens & Walfart tells my husband they don't have his full amout of pills which means hes 2 day's short now, forcing him to forfeit 2 days or they won't fill it. Then to turn around tell him he has to wait 2 more extra days just to fill his script, knowing they shorted him 2 day's(10 pill's) every month. What's even worse they still bill the insurance for the full amount. If the bill for the full amout why don't they reimburse him the 10 they claim they don't have?
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.
Well it is not up to the pharmacist to determine if the patient has the need for the medication because they cannot prescribe or deny a patient medication unless there is a problem with it. 85% of those who abused opiate never even got a prescription from a doctor so this is such a waste.
When this new law went into effect in 2017 making Norco/vicoden a schedule 2 drug within that first week the pharmacist that I known for 10 years at CVS told me he had three of his chronic pain patients OD in the drive-through due to their pain meds being cut off and they had to go to street drugs. He was so angry and upset but his hands are tied and he can’t do anything. I’m not giving a pharmacy any of my fucking information. My prescriptions come in via an automated system from my doctors office to the pharmacy so there should be no question about the legitimacy of it and if people are doing that instead of writing hand held prescriptions are having the patients take them in and just using a special system in place there shouldn’t be any need for questions because it comes right from the doctors office.
The pharmacists are not evil people that don’t want you to get your pain meds. They’re passionate about healing and don’t want the medications to be abused because they can cause serious harm if abused. I see no problem with taking the extra precautions to ensure the Controlled substance and C2 level drugs end up in the right hands.
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.
Thanks for giving my personal information up there doctors. And Walgreens did it to themselves, I hope these people get a civil suit filed against they
The crack down on opioids here in America increases the use of heroin thus making our government and places like Afghanistan, which grows opium in thousands of acres in fields, very wealthy. They're in cahoots.
My first year in high school I got a root canal and got 16 hydrocodone . Went to a mom and pops pharmacy. I think they read the label will the number wrong because they literally gave me 61 instead of 16. I didn’t find out until I got home and I wasn’t complaining about it really didn’t know what they were. This was probably in the late 90s or early 2000
it’s not the pharmacy it’s the insurance company owned by the state or government that request the information ℹ️ they want to know why a patient is taking the medication and for how long because they’re paying for it. Stop blaming the frontline when it’s the top ppl sitting on the high chair. The pharmacy has taken backlash for drug abuse and good ppl have paid the price for it. These same ppl that abused these drug have sued for being overdosed and so on.
This video has me paranoid about Walgreens. Been using them for years for everything rather than a Mom & Pop drugstore -- which are quickly disappearing in my area. Unfortunately, none of the Mom & Pop places will take my Medicare Part D insurance. Maybe it's because the only pain med I take is tramadol for migraines and bad osteoarthritis, but SO FAR I've never had any issues getting it filled ... and my GP has been prescribing it for several years. Due to kidney disease (which progressed to end stage earlier this year), anti-inflammatory meds can't be used, and Tylenol doesn't help with inflammation. However, unless the DEA is suddenly overcome with common sense and changes its ways, I expect it to end any time. And like millions of others, I don't know what I'll do then.
I dont think these pharmacies should be able to get your personal medical information. Thats an intrusion into my privacy. Sue them If Walgreens wants to pick and choose what prescriptions the fill, then they should get out of the pill business. End of story
If you have a legit script then you don’t have anything to worry about . Allow your doctor to discuss your situation with the pharmacist . To many people are dying from addiction . I’m a dentist and in Ohio I have to write a code on the script indicating the procedure that the prescription is needed for and I write for only 3-4 days worth . This protects me , the patient , and the pharmacy . It’s important , narcotic pain pills are very very strong drugs that are great for short term pain but if abused or even used as directed for weeks or months at a time will ruin people . A life on narcotics is not a life worth living because after the honeymoon period the drug comes back asking for your life - no Joke .
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.
its none of there business the prescriptions like a check okay you write a check to someone they go to the bank and cash it when you take a prescription to the drugstore you are asking them to fill the doctor's order it is the doctor's order he's just a pharmacist his job is to fill the doctor's orders.
innocent people who just need their pain medication and we have to go through hell every month and sometimes don't even get their medicine, we shouldn't have to pay for the people who abuse it, we go through Enough! I've had to Go to 7 different Walgreens, yes GO to 7, because if u call like I just did and they can't even tell me over the phone if they have it in Stock and most of the time they don't even have it, so being disabled and in Exstrem chronic pain, I have to personally go in Every single store until I find one instead of just giving me a yes or no answer! Also they say they can't even call other branches from their pharmacy to see which one has it or not so I don't have to go to each one just to be turned down because they don't have it in Stock, it puts sooooo much stress every month, rarely when we do find a place that just so happens we are stressed about how when or IF we will be lucky enough to find one that fills it after that month is up, it's so so so wrong and sad, we go through enough WAYYYY more than Enough and have so many heath problems, we certainly don't need the Added stress by pharmacies that claim to care about the patient, on the corner of happy and wellness My Ass!!!! This feels like abuse, of we have a script and our Id plus have went to them and been a customer for a good while, why r we being treated like criminals for wanting our much need PRESCRIBED BY A DOCTOR, It's so wrong to make us pay for other people's abuse, this makes us powerless when we r trying not to give up, trying to live in a little less painful so at least we can try to live as normal as possible with at Least Some Little bit of Pain Relief!
Wood Stock Rx tech.cvs. I understand what your going through but I work there. So do this: Stick to one pharmacy!! One chain. Because after a couple months of seeing you, you'll have much better shot at getting your meds filled. Jumping around never looks good especially with all the new tracking & technology. Hope this helps someone.
Pharmacies get robbed daily. We will not tell you over the phone for this reason. My store learned this after 2 armed robberies both included pain meds...methadone,Xanax. For the safety of employees really.
@@kellykel4854 Walgreens IS one chain of pharmacies, just different locations. That's the primary reason I use them. If I'm on vacation out of town and need something, I can usually find a Walgreens somewhere and I -- including all my records -- are in their system. So @Wood Stock isn't pharmacy shopping. You'd think you'd know this, cos CVS is the exact same way. One chain, thousands of locations across the U.S. for customer convenience.
I used to go to 4 doctors and get 4 different meds xanax klonopin and valium etc..they are basically the same meds..when they implemented new system they stopped allowing it unless it's okay by the doctors says
This is fucked up. It’s no ones goddamn business why anyone takes anything! One guilty person does not define an entire group of chronic pain patients. If a legitimate doctor writes a script, the pharmacy and insurance companies need to honor that. Not doing so breaks state and federal laws. This needs to change!!!!!
I’m a chronic pain patient I’m 23 years old & I’ve had 40 surgeries in my spinal cord. Been on pain medication for 4 years now & Walgreens has done this to me 2 times already since the laws changed. Some of us are really in pain & we don’t abuse it.
"Why is this patient taking this medication?"
Ummm because the doctor prescribed it. Pharmacists need to stay on the pharmacy side of healthcare and the FDA and DEA need to stay out of me and my doctor's decisions about my care.
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 ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹. 😮😊
That's none of there business if a doctor gives u a scrip or calls one in they should have to fill it
Dan Fiscus yes it is their business. It is in fact why they study meds and how they work in the body.
Don't go to Walgreens or CVS. They are the WORST. If you CAN, go to a "mom and pop" pharmacy. If you don't have any of those close enough for you, consider Rite Aid. People rarely have problems with them.
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 ?
The CDC just took some major steps to make the lives or chronic pain sufferers more miserable than it already is. Google up some of the headlines with the CDC & opioids in the past couple of weeks and you will see. But back to the topic, Walgreens has made my day worse on many an occasion. They seems to change their guidelines as often as the time comes in and out. And yes, when there is an issue, they question you in front of all to see & hear.....with NO RESPECT TO YOUR PRIVACY. So much for HIPAA protecting our rights. At times, I wish those who made these decisions could spend a day or so dealing with chronic pain. I bet things would change, but.....we know that is just a dream that will never happen. So, bend over.....here it comes again.
I have considerd suicide at times due to this. Never abused pills. Have legitimate spinal disease, titanium neck plate, spinal cord stimulator and have cried so many time I can't count due to pain. These bastards are killing people under medicating them. I have fought through the sefl harm thoughts but I pity others worse than me who are not as mentally strong.
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.
Exactly innocent people in pain have to go through heck for bad people
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
I think the doctor towards the end of the post said it best when describing the problems the government has created by forcing extra scrutiny back upon the pharmacy....he commented that as a doctor,
"....for us, it's an inconvenience, for the patient - it's suffering."
Walmart tried to call my doctor and began to tell the doctor what he can or can't prescribe. My doctor told the pharmacist," if you want to give out medical advice go to medical school and get a degree, you are pharmacist, all you need to know how to do is count to 100 and make change for a dollar".
So Walmart will not fill any prescriptions from my Dr.
The only reason the pharmacist would give "I cannot fill your prescription" When I asked him why he replied "I cannot tell you why, it is just against my professional judgement"
Boycott: Walmart, Walgreens,and CVS. They all have been caught fraudulently filling prescriptions in Florida, and we're fined millions along with the distributor for the region.
A lot of people don't know that a heroin overdose is counted as a opioid overdose they started doing this a few years back and when they did it made the numbers of opioid deaths Spike.
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.
This really sucks for people that need it. Not only are they going to be in pain, but on top of it they have to unfairly go through horrendous withdrawals.
Did exactly the right thing. And yes, try to use independent/ mom&pop pharmacies. And be responsible.
This happens to me every month. I’m so sick of it. They give me the run around about my medicine, why do I have to go through this? I’m not sure what the problem is when I’m taking my medicine EXACTLY LIKE ITS PRESCRIBED. My blood work is done every three months and looks beautiful, I’m waiting on my next back surgery and I don’t need to get punished for the addicts! I should not have to complain and argue with the pharmacist who nit picks apart my script every month looking for a reason to reject it. It’s some who really cause problems for all!
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
It should be the doctors fighting back for us !! The patient shouldn't have to fight all the time because we are called addicts when we do !!!
Our politicians have too much power concerning pain patients and their pain
The DEA needs to be totally dissolved.
Agreed
This happened to me at Walgreens twice and I am a retired war vet and I was just like wow.
i have one of the most severe cases of chrons disease that my GI doctor has ever seen. i go to pain management tomorrow. It's gotten so severe that Im usually in a ball in my bed. An ambulance brought me to the ER two weeks ago. after houre of agonizing pain and vomiting the hospital gave me hydration and morphine. he told me that my medication needs to be changed because it is no longer working. All I want is pain relief and steroids for flare ups. im a widow raising a small child, when Im headed back to the hospital he says "Not this again!". I've had this disease since I was 7 years old and Im now 53. Something's goota give!
This is why I like my mom and pop pharmacy. They know me by name and they don't treat me like trash like the large pharmacies do.
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
We can blame the FDA & the DEA for our "war on drugs"
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 RUclips 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
This is ridiculous!
Awwwwwwwwwwwww I've gone through that too... gods bless and godspeed! May your pain meds be with you!
I've been going to a Walgreens down the street for over 10 years. I known the pharmacist that works in the morning very well. I have always been very polite to her, even when a situation happened, where the pharmacy was at fault. A few years ago I had to get a pain script filled because, I had just went to the dentist and got a root canal. She just so happen to be covering the register because, it was lunch and the assistants were not there at the time. She was all smiles until she looked down and read my script. I was shocked because I've never seen someone's smile disappear so fast, and I've never even seen her with a straight face. She said hold on, I have to go check in the back if we have any. They keep the pain meds under lock and key, which I do not blame them. However, even if they have just checked for someone a few minutes before you, they play dumb, and still say the same thing. Anyway, when she came back, she rudely told me sorry we're all out. I asked her if she could call any Walgreens, and ask them if they have a supply. What she has done in the past for me. She said sorry we're not allowed to do that, and a bunch of other B.S. it took months for her to forget about it, and treat me the way she used to in the past. In my opinion, people love to judge other people. LOL
I was super worried when clicking on this that it might be one-sided. I was pleasantly surprised that a good variety of sides was shown! Thank you!
Same shit here in Fla. with Wallgreens, they actually have a sign in the drive thru that says,,, Pain medication will be filled or denied at their discretion! In other words, if they simply don't like the way you look, they can refuse you. I am a male with long hair and have been turned down and lied to so many times, I took my business elsewhere. I don't have time for games, I need my medication to be able to work and provide for my family. Disgusting people should be treated in such a way, especially with all the things we must go through to simply prove to the Dr. That we have a ligament illness or injury we suffer from,, and still, they don't want to prescribe a decent painkiller! Just insane and very wrong,, :(
Yet Another reason to Stay Out of WalGreens!! In my town they are Rude & try to Cheat you on your prescription!!
I feel lucky that Walgreens filled my Norco script today. Last month they couldn't because they said it was on back order. I had to drive 30 miles to another Walgreens to get it filled last month. The government is making the problem worse.
Walgreens is the worst. They try and do the doctor's job. I have had the same doctor and meds and diagnosis for 10 years, nothing never changed. My doctor lit into a walgreens pharmacist. Once the pharm felt embarrassed they refused to fill any medication for any member of my family. There were supplements, antibiotics, inhalers... also my daughters seizure meds.This was in CA. I now live in Muncie IN. I will never use Walgreens because the discrimination. Its one thing to be that way to an adult. But to a childs much needed med because a doctor lit into a unprofessional pharmacist. Walgreens is the worst. There is no customer service to report a pharmacist. Im sure, if you do the pharmacist will take revenge and put a red flag in your records. Some pharmacist are really unprofessional. I have had walgreens give me someone elses meds also talk about other peoples issues and meds against hippa rules (pharmacists not an aid). If you need to make a complaint about the pharmacy you talk to the boss which is the pharmacist. If the complaint is about the boss. Your 💩 out of luck. Avoid walgreens.
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.
Didn’t realize the pharmacist was my doctor. Another 24 hours of pain,, no sleep and nausea. Thanks Walgreens 😡🤬
I use one pharmacy, have for years. They know me and my health issues ,and that's a big part of the battle.
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.
This is Walgreens, the do good pharmacy. Yes it is legal for them to contact your doctor but they cannot disclose your medical information - such as a pharmacy tech. They also cannot discuss your medical history while you are in line with other customers around - they can ask to go to a side location & speak to you in private. They cannot announce the name of your medications to other cus
jamie johnson but they do
Still happening. Just happened to me at Walgreens 2 weeks ago. I walked away and went to CVS. No problems!
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.
So if I come in to a 24 hour pharmacy and have a prescription for 20 Norco after a broken hand the pharmacist could refuse to fill it.
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
So should my surgical oncologist be arrested for writing me a prescription for OxyContin? I had cancer 2 years ago and surgery that could not be done minimally invasively? Fuck Walgreens I will never get another prescription there again!
As a pain patient due to medical malpractice,I left Walgreen after 7 years. I was treated as a keeper by a person I consider a person who understood my way of life(100% disabled ,will get worse with age) I left with no warning ,i just to my doctor I was changing pharmcey to better fill all my meds.
I deal with Walgreens and they're starting to treat me like crap!
I’m a RN, now disabled. I have chronic pain. I’ve been on Oxy for years. Walgreens won’t fill my RX, even though I have MD RX. You can’t just stop Oxy without horrible symptoms. Do not rely on Walgreens if you need medications.
I just want to pass over to heaven, and let our creator take care of my pain that I endure so much. My pain meds are not working. This is a total nightmare. When I go to the ER, they yell at me and abuse me. And they refuse to take me out of pain. I was born with chronic pancreatitis, and they just don't get how much pain I really am in. I can't take how I am treated by the ER staff. I noticed the change in 2007. How can pain meds get worse? They are so weak. How do doctors become dumb? I am so fucked up in the head now, because they won't help my horrible pain. I feel like it is being done to me un-purpose. Help me God!!!!! I have researched what I know. and it is gang stalking. Google it...It is so sad that I have fallen in this trap. I am suffering physically, but they think it is mental. So they haul me off to the mental ward, and there I get no treatment for my pain. So I suffer! It is so disgusting how we are being treated as drug seekers. And that is far from the truth.
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!!
I think this is absurd, give MD S the right to exercise what his authority by what his education call's for!!
walmart sucks too
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.
Pharmacies calling to confirm that a prescription is not forged or altered is fine, if the pharmacist has a legitimate reason to suspect prescription fraud. More and more often, though, pharmacists seek to play medical doctor by asking prescribing doctors detailed questions about the patient's treated conditions. Not to put too fine of a point on it, but pharmacists are not MDs or DOs, and their actual training regarding the pathophysiology and treatment of disease and injury is minuscule. Doctors spend four years of pre-med, four years of med school, and, in the case of my wife (neurologist) and many other specialists, four or more years after medical school in a relentless residency training. Pharmacists have one or two classes that don't even scratch the surface of the rigorous training that doctors receive. For pharmacists to pretend to have the ability to question a medical doctor's best judgment of treatment is pure arrogance and hubris, unless a prescription is outrageously inappropriate and excessive, prima facie. The vast majority of calls that my wife receives from pharmacists regarding the appropriateness of medications that she has prescribed are plain ridiculous (and it's not just a painkiller issue, since my wife very rarely prescribes opioids, but still is frequently interrupted by silly calls from pharmacies), and the calls just add to the onerous work demands already heaped on physicians through ridiculously excessive documentation and paperwork requirements. My wife already barely sees our son and myself, working 75 to 90 hours per week for a 40 hour salary. There are pharmacists in our extended families, so I have personal familiarity with the vast gulf that exists between what a pharmacist thinks that he or she knows about medical conditions and what he or she actually does know. We are talking about a profession where a majority of its practitioners believe in and recommend homeopathic treatments, which science has long ago completely debunked. Pharmacists should just work their tidy little eight or ten hour shifts, count pills, alert prescribers to possible dangerous or rare drug interactions (of which the MD is typically aware anyway), watch out for forged or altered prescriptions, dispense information about the medications and side effects to patients, and collect their insanely lucrative pay. And please, please stop pretending to be medical doctors.
you are actually wrong.. Pharmacist receive a lot of training in disease states, guidelines for appropriate treatments, and appropriate dosing. What pharmacist lack is training in diagnosing pts, which is why the prescriber is contacted.
+dragonboyjohnny. You micro-pricked stack of shit. Who in the fucking hell do you think you are to determine what meds are outside of an MD's scope of practice? Hell, a psychiatrist can perform heart surgery if he or she wishes. MDs can practice any type of medicine that they wish and prescribe, on or off label, whichever meds they wish. Dentists, vets, podiatrists, and optometrists are strictly limited in their prescribing. My god, you really show your ignorance. Most PharmD programs are three years long, and your so called residencies are motherfucking cakewalks. You are not dealing with a simpleton here. My WAIS-R IQ is 168. Stop lying and exaggerating. You represent the absolute nadir of pharmacists, which is saying something.
damn some one is mad, take a chill pill, or did your local pharmacist refused to fill that for you lol
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Loved your comment !!! Very quick and smart and gave me a good giggle !!
Yes, this person must have been told
" oh, sorry, we are all out of chill pills ( knowing damn well that they are stocked with their allotted amount )
But, they can make these judgements without even calling your doctor. Hmmmmmmmmm, sounds fishy to me
I have NO problem with them calling so they can save their license.... absolutely ! That seems legit. BUT.... I am legit too. So I smile and introduce myself to the pharmacist, because we're going to have to get along aren't we ? Because in the end, your just going to have to fill my script 😂
voitdive , I am definitely not "above question or review". Part of fair review is my right to rebut my critic's assertions. One reason for the length of my posts is that, in my PhD training, I learned that thorough statements can often preempt potential arguments from others, provided that people actually read and process the content of my argument. The fact that you have not asked me anything pertinent to what I have established in my "screeds" is, I believe, revealing. You have no data or experience sufficient to contradict my assertions. Once you have a cogent and relevant question or criticism of anything I wrote, by all means present your argument. I promise to limit the length of my response and limit myself to one and two syllable words, so my reply does not exhaust or confuse you.
Wallgreens is the absolute worse pharmacy ever. I will never go there.
That xan girl is lucky she didn’t go through crazy withdrawals
this drug game has gotten out of linr..just legalize everything and sell it to people so they dknt have to break the law to get it..cause no matter the risk there gonna get it!
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.
so, the pharmacy (Walgreen's) can ask a boatload of questions about a patient filling a prescription (gotta be a HIPPA violation in there, somewhere) . however, they're not at liberty to speak to a reporter on the matter. how free is this country getting? free enough to do what you're told, and obey!
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.
The few ruin it for the many, this sucks👎
Don't go to Walgreens!!!!! Some of their little workers (pharmacist and techs) get off on these little power trips!!!!!
Especially the younger ones who are the most judgmental and ignorant
My local Walgreens tell me they're "out", whether its a controlled medication or insulin, others as well, when a friend of mine who works with the chain that they're actually not.
I had cancer of my kidney and a pharmacist refused to fill a pain med..to make a long story short..he was fired. Of course that was 40 years ago
AND WHEN SOME ONE DIE'S FROM NOT GETTING THERE MEDS DO TO HEART PROBLEMS OR OTHER PROBLEMS 2ND TO THE PAIN MEDS GUESS WHO'S GETTING SUED EVEN KNOW THAT DOE'S NOT BRING BACK A LOVE ONE
Use kratom. No more prescription pain meds. F.... Walgreens.
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?
Good idea. I am an ex junkie and this needs to stop.
why does my gut tell me this isn't about the welfare of the american ppl.It is about control by fear ..but why?...Any man or women who can stand by and watch a patient bedridden in horrible pain that rots the mind and body and do nothing g will eventually lose his soul..his compassion and become bankrupt morally.
I don't go to Walgreens for mine. I know better. CVS is a better choice. I use a grocery store pharmacy. No problems.
I understand that a pharmacist needs to keep fake prescriptions out but a patients diagnosis is not their job.
news pill epidemic is over
DO NOT DO DRUGS...especially benzodiazepines, if you want to know what it's like to go crazy.
Benzos are completely fine and extremely helpful if you take them as needed. If you shovel them into your mouth every single day for a long-enough time, yeah, you will build a dependency because you're taking them irresponsibly. That shouldn't mean everyone else should be punished and denied having them. I have epilepsy and since moving back to Los Angeles from the Bay Area, I cannot find one doctor who will write me a prescription for Clonazepam which I was receiving up North from an extremely credible and decorated physician who taught at Stanford half of his week. It's absolutely ridiculous and affects my quality of life. My mom used to receive Xanax and she cannot find a doctor who will do it these days, and she only refilled a bottle maybe twice a year at the most. Most people are not going to become drug addicts or develop dependencies on these drugs especially if they're prescribed for legitimate reasons.
Go to your mom and pop pharmacy's are better chains of stores CVS is the worst. If the pharmacist knows toy I go to the same Walgreens every month but know switched to Kroger. If you have Giant Eagle or Kroger their pharmacists know what they are doing. That's why go to a creditable physician that can fax your Schedule II substances in to the pharmacy with a special DEA number. This electronic Script system helps keep these meds out of the wrong hands. Build a relationship with you pharmacists get to know them by name deal with the same people every month no problems. If they want diagnosis history give them the doctors report when you get you meds filled if at Walgreens 8600 stores they will have it on file and you won't be harassed they will document that in the computers insist on a printout and make sure your drug allergies are up to date. This is called building a relationship with the pharmacist and the pharmacy. To keep phony scripts down the doctors shouldn't hand write or call in the script should be electorally submitted tot the pharmacy to insure the pharmacy isn't getting ripped off by scammers or pill pushing doctors. Thanks OBAMA CARE
dont buy from chain stores stick to your locals
I guess Walgreens is not longer the "corner of healthy & happy". I am working on a NEW catch phrase for them now!
They ask for diagnosis code??? Its crazy here in Houston, Tx.
I think a DEA agent should be denied any pain meds when taking the job. Lets see if anything changes then when they cant be treated.
I’m not sticking up for Walgreens. But bottom line The decision ends at the discretion of the pharmacist. If he or she doesn’t want to refill your prescription without more information pertaining to your diagnosis and chronic condition then they have the right to refuse you. Trust me I’ve been through the ringer since the wtc collapse when I fractured my hip. Just answer the questions honestly and get your meds. Or act stupid and drive to another pharmacy over and over again.
While I don't like that the woman felt ashamed, I'm glad that the mentality is finally changing. If you're taking a narcotic then the pharmacist has the medically ethical obligation to periodically check in with the doctor before dispensing the #1 cause for death in America. I live in a foreign country and here you need a state representative to authorize all high-level narcotics except for methylphenidate. It's a pain but it keeps doctor's in check.
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.
It says it on the window. Online pharms are doing the same!
Walgreens is notorious for this behavior.
Every month Walgreens & Walfart tells my husband they don't have his full amout of pills which means hes 2 day's short now, forcing him to forfeit 2 days or they won't fill it. Then to turn around tell him he has to wait 2 more extra days just to fill his script, knowing they shorted him 2 day's(10 pill's) every month. What's even worse they still bill the insurance for the full amount. If the bill for the full amout why don't they reimburse him the 10 they claim they don't have?
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
every time I used Walgreens pharmacy I left feeling like I wanted to beat my head against the cement that's why I changed pharmacies
Well it is not up to the pharmacist to determine if the patient has the need for the medication because they cannot prescribe or deny a patient medication unless there is a problem with it. 85% of those who abused opiate never even got a prescription from a doctor so this is such a waste.
When this new law went into effect in 2017 making Norco/vicoden a schedule 2 drug within that first week the pharmacist that I known for 10 years at CVS told me he had three of his chronic pain patients OD in the drive-through due to their pain meds being cut off and they had to go to street drugs. He was so angry and upset but his hands are tied and he can’t do anything.
I’m not giving a pharmacy any of my fucking information. My prescriptions come in via an automated system from my doctors office to the pharmacy so there should be no question about the legitimacy of it and if people are doing that instead of writing hand held prescriptions are having the patients take them in and just using a special system in place there shouldn’t be any need for questions because it comes right from the doctors office.
Same thing happened to me! Omg! What business is it to the pharmacy! What happened to privacy laws?
Walmart just did this to us!
The pharmacists are not evil people that don’t want you to get your pain meds. They’re passionate about healing and don’t want the medications to be abused because they can cause serious harm if abused. I see no problem with taking the extra precautions to ensure the Controlled substance and C2 level drugs end up in the right hands.
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.
Thanks for giving my personal information up there doctors. And Walgreens did it to themselves, I hope these people get a civil suit filed against they
The crack down on opioids here in America increases the use of heroin thus making our government and places like Afghanistan, which grows opium in thousands of acres in fields, very wealthy. They're in cahoots.
It's not the pharmacy damn business!!!!
I tell you what when the public finally gets fed up and just starts cracking f****** heads for this type of s*** it'll stop
Don't wait until that day, they know when you come back month after month.
Train your pharmacist, not to humiliate customers.
I go to rite aid
I’ve never had a problem
Especially after I was diagnosed with cancer
I know both the pharmacist by name
She’s the reason why chronic pain patients are having a problem getting their pain medication
My first year in high school I got a root canal and got 16 hydrocodone . Went to a mom and pops pharmacy. I think they read the label will the number wrong because they literally gave me 61 instead of 16. I didn’t find out until I got home and I wasn’t complaining about it really didn’t know what they were. This was probably in the late 90s or early 2000
it’s not the pharmacy it’s the insurance company owned by the state or government that request the information ℹ️ they want to know why a patient is taking the medication and for how long because they’re paying for it. Stop blaming the frontline when it’s the top ppl sitting on the high chair. The pharmacy has taken backlash for drug abuse and good ppl have paid the price for it. These same ppl that abused these drug have sued for being overdosed and so on.
Happened to me at Walmart in front of everyone
I don't have a a issue with Walgreens Pharmacy.
So Much For HIPPA!
This video has me paranoid about Walgreens. Been using them for years for everything rather than a Mom & Pop drugstore -- which are quickly disappearing in my area. Unfortunately, none of the Mom & Pop places will take my Medicare Part D insurance. Maybe it's because the only pain med I take is tramadol for migraines and bad osteoarthritis, but SO FAR I've never had any issues getting it filled ... and my GP has been prescribing it for several years. Due to kidney disease (which progressed to end stage earlier this year), anti-inflammatory meds can't be used, and Tylenol doesn't help with inflammation.
However, unless the DEA is suddenly overcome with common sense and changes its ways, I expect it to end any time. And like millions of others, I don't know what I'll do then.
I dont think these pharmacies should be able to get your personal medical information. Thats an intrusion into my privacy. Sue them
If Walgreens wants to pick and choose what prescriptions the fill, then they should get out of the pill business. End of story
Stopping an epidemic after taking it for years. Absolutely legitimate prescription
If you have a legit script then you don’t have anything to worry about . Allow your doctor to discuss your situation with the pharmacist . To many people are dying from addiction . I’m a dentist and in Ohio I have to write a code on the script indicating the procedure that the prescription is needed for and I write for only 3-4 days worth . This protects me , the patient , and the pharmacy . It’s important , narcotic pain pills are very very strong drugs that are great for short term pain but if abused or even used as directed for weeks or months at a time will ruin people . A life on narcotics is not a life worth living because after the honeymoon period the drug comes back asking for your life - no Joke .
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.
its none of there business the prescriptions like a check okay you write a check to someone they go to the bank and cash it when you take a prescription to the drugstore you are asking them to fill the doctor's order it is the doctor's order he's just a pharmacist his job is to fill the doctor's orders.
innocent people who just need their pain medication and we have to go through hell every month and sometimes don't even get their medicine, we shouldn't have to pay for the people who abuse it, we go through Enough! I've had to Go to 7 different Walgreens, yes GO to 7, because if u call like I just did and they can't even tell me over the phone if they have it in Stock and most of the time they don't even have it, so being disabled and in Exstrem chronic pain, I have to personally go in Every single store until I find one instead of just giving me a yes or no answer! Also they say they can't even call other branches from their pharmacy to see which one has it or not so I don't have to go to each one just to be turned down because they don't have it in Stock, it puts sooooo much stress every month, rarely when we do find a place that just so happens we are stressed about how when or IF we will be lucky enough to find one that fills it after that month is up, it's so so so wrong and sad, we go through enough WAYYYY more than Enough and have so many heath problems, we certainly don't need the Added stress by pharmacies that claim to care about the patient, on the corner of happy and wellness My Ass!!!! This feels like abuse, of we have a script and our Id plus have went to them and been a customer for a good while, why r we being treated like criminals for wanting our much need PRESCRIBED BY A DOCTOR, It's so wrong to make us pay for other people's abuse, this makes us powerless when we r trying not to give up, trying to live in a little less painful so at least we can try to live as normal as possible with at Least Some Little bit of Pain Relief!
Wood Stock
Rx tech.cvs. I understand what your going through but I work there. So do this: Stick to one pharmacy!! One chain. Because after a couple months of seeing you, you'll have much better shot at getting your meds filled. Jumping around never looks good especially with all the new tracking & technology. Hope this helps someone.
Pharmacies get robbed daily. We will not tell you over the phone for this reason. My store learned this after 2 armed robberies both included pain meds...methadone,Xanax. For the safety of employees really.
Why don't you go somewhere else????!!!
@@kellykel4854 Walgreens IS one chain of pharmacies, just different locations. That's the primary reason I use them. If I'm on vacation out of town and need something, I can usually find a Walgreens somewhere and I -- including all my records -- are in their system. So @Wood Stock isn't pharmacy shopping.
You'd think you'd know this, cos CVS is the exact same way. One chain, thousands of locations across the U.S. for customer convenience.
Why is it a pharmacy's business??
exactly what I said pharmacist should stay out of it ,leave it to the drs
I used to go to 4 doctors and get 4 different meds xanax klonopin and valium etc..they are basically the same meds..when they implemented new system they stopped allowing it unless it's okay by the doctors says
in the state Washington has a state law that the Dr has to put a icdc code on all RX they writ you for pain
Yes they can, continuum of care
If u ask me it's none of the gov business what someone puts in their bodies I used to be a pain pill addict but I e been clean for 8yrs in march
The Pharmacists ARE NOT DOCTORS but just pharmacist DOING a job by filling prescriptions.
Most pharmacists nowadays actually are doctors, just not medical doctors, so...
This is fucked up. It’s no ones goddamn business why anyone takes anything! One guilty person does not define an entire group of chronic pain patients. If a legitimate doctor writes a script, the pharmacy and insurance companies need to honor that. Not doing so breaks state and federal laws. This needs to change!!!!!