This showed up on another Face Book page… https://www.facebook.com/PainPatientRightsandAdvocacy
We now have Pharmacists “not comfortable filling” C-V’s ?
I have had to move for my job around the DC metro area, over to the Maryland side instead of the VA side. But I kept my doctor on the VA side because he’s good.
I do not get prescriptions for pain. I do use a medication like Lyrica to treat widespread body pain that is mysterious.
I have been filling this same prescription every month for 5 years with CVS — wherever I was in the country.
Today I went to Store 1416, where the “pharmacist” Trinh Tran, sayid she was uncomfortable filling my prescription. I asked her why and she initially didnt say any thing. I and I again asked “Why on earth can’t you fill it?” SHe said that because I live in Maryland (and she assumed my doctor wsa also in MD), I should get the prescription filled at a place closer to my home.
Once I pulled out my doctor’s business card, showing he is 5 minutes down the street, she held on to her “I don’t feel comfortable filling this”. I can’t be on the ‘list’ of pain medication abusers….I don’t use them. The only other factor is that she was discriminating against me for having a disability. And the ADA covers this”
I am a real doctor. They had no idea. Ms. Tran, and “Manager” (who looked about 21) Ms. Reed, you can prepare to have your licenses revoked.
If you had TOLD ME A REASON, even if I didn’t agree with it, I may not have taken the action I’m taking. But this is no different than Black people being inferior to white people. It’s ludircous, not supported by science, and your not filling my legitimate prescription I fill EVERY MONTH at CVS with NO CAUSE is going to cost you. It’s OK that you wouldn’t give me your employee numbers — I found them. Your company, the DEA, and the state of VA will not hear the end of this.
And I have 400 people ready to go in on a class action lawsuit…that would be even more fun, putting non-doctors out of the way of real doctors.
I went to a CVS 10 minutes from you and they filled it with a smile. What your problem was, is, and will always be, is none of my concern….you could have caused me great harm if I didn’t get my medication before the morning.
Filed under: General Problems
Yes, Dr, I’ve heard about those stories. But what about the story I read this morning about a man being refused #10 Percocet-10s and told that they were prescribed illegally? Maybe we don’t know the entire story here, but everyone must remember that these drugs have a necessary and legitimate use. How that is being totally lost is beyond me.
I would like to hear from one of these refusenik pharmacists as to why he/she is refusing to fill what sound to me to be legitimate prescriptions. I say this judging from the way the poor patients have reacted, which is with quite justifiable disgust and anger and a readiness to fight back.
Olerph:
No fingerprints on this, but the DEA has decided there is an epidemic of OD of prescription narcotics.
They have fined Walgreens and CVS and Cardinal Health(wholesaler) Huge sums.
The fines were kept by the DEA, used to find more DEA activity.
Pain doctors have been aggressively pursued and charged. Pharmacies have responded by refusing to fill narcotic Rx fir thousands of pain patients.
I’ve been a pharmacist for nearly 40 years. Granted, the last 20 have been in hospital pharmacy. But I cannot understand the reluctance on the part of community pharmacists to dispense controlled substances for legitimate medical purposes for established patients. Has some new, tyrannical fear been placed in today’s pharmacists to refuse, at the slightest sniffle, to fill ANY controlled substance presciption? And, despite its on-paper abuse potential as a Schedule V, Lyrica seems to be to be an unlikely candidate for a forged or pill-mill prescription. Somebody, please tell me what’s going on.
I dont believe this at all. If you do get legal help please post the updates but if they wont do it forbpain prescription discrimination then why would they do it for this lyrica drug?
Yeah – someone willing to stand up and actually do something about this ridiculous situation. I bet if you posted some contact information your 400 people would go to several thousand people wanting to join a class action lawsuit!