With this huge snow storm over a large portion of the east side of our country.. is going to impact deliveries to some pharmacies and could even cause some pharmacies not to be open because of the weather. In some areas there is forecast to have blizzard conditions… which means some roads are going to be so drifted shut that it may take days to get them reopened.
For those pts whose pharmacy will not fill their controlled meds until the pt “takes the last dose”… may find themselves facing cold turkey withdrawal… Even if pharmacies are open, doesn’t mean that prescriber’s office will be open for the pt to get their new signed Rx for their C-II controlled meds.
Statistic suggest that for every ONE MILLION people affected by this huge snow storm… that up to 11,000 chronic pain pts will run out of medication and thrown into cold turkey withdrawal for every day that pharmacy/prescriber services are not available.
At the time of this post ….More than 85 million people in at least 20 states face storm warnings or advisories.
I saw on TV some bureaucrats suggesting that the citizens in their area(s) should have ONE WEEK’S worth of essentials on hand. How many prescribers/pharmacies will allow a chronic pain pt to have that much medication in reserve to help make sure that they can help them “survive” during a national disaster ?
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I know here your only allowed to fill your Meds on the same date as you last script,if you’ve fill a couple days thru the year they subtract to make it impossible to fill any Clls early,,and that’s if you were going out of town and the DR,fought for you to be able to fill early..You all know the drill,,and they wonder why people would go to the streets.