PHARMACIST STEVE

Reporter with The NEW YORK TIMES -looking for pts having trouble getting their meds

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   June cutright, on July 8, 2025 at 1:13 pm said:

   MS patients are routinely given stimulants. The dod, the fed employees, va all recommend Ritalin.

   If you ever want to a story on why someyw progressive MS CANNOT get Ritalin ex but an emotional issue like anxiety can or why w 5 cranial neuralgias w occasional breakthrough acute pain, plus falls, burns, countless injuries from trying to stay active I get 0 pain med but fibro patient has morphine pump (when post herpatic pain; trigeminal, pudendal, occipital neuralgias are treated w pump). Honestly I also have issues w dislocations from eds.

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   CHERI Harkness, on June 28, 2025 at 9:16 pm said:

   I am having a hard time this month. I was on a med for seven years had to be switched because pharmacy can’t get it anymore. So I switched last month. Went into the pharmacy for my script this month and was told that met there quota for the month and can’t get anymore for a month. They gave me the twenty pills they had. Now I need to find a pharmacy that has the rest and get a new script called in.

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     Pharmaciststeve, on June 28, 2025 at 10:10 pm said:

     The three major drugs wholesalers were sued by 46+/- state AGs and they agreed to sell fewer controls to community pharmacies. Here is a hyperlink to a synopsis of the nearly 600 page agreement, but if you want to read the entire 600 page agreement I can share https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kaiser.pdf

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     Pharmaciststeve, on July 1, 2025 at 6:50 pm said:

     From what I understand, some pharmacies – mostly independents – are not taking on any new pts wanting controlled meds filled, because the pharmacy is trying to take care of their regular/loyal- pts who have helped them pay their bills. Others, as I understand it, it is first come… first serve and – IMO – those stores are going to have an increasing number of pts who are going to be thrown into cold turkey withdrawal, because getting $$$ in the registers is more important than taking care of their loyal pts.

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   maryw M, on May 19, 2025 at 11:14 am said:

   Good for this reporter,,,we need allll the help we can get,,,for the medically ill to get there meds,,,mw

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   Alpha Wolf, on May 18, 2025 at 12:17 am said:

   The only thing we have heard from pharmacies in my area is there must be a valid prescription on file in order to get them as they’re not able to order them unless they have one. So, if a patient has somehow gotten pain meds anew, they may not have them in stock. One of my family members was forced to “try” other preferred medications by insurance last year and one of the medications they were supposed to try couldn’t be ordered in to any of the pharmacies in this area. We called every pharmacy within a 70 mile radius. They all said the same thing. Can’t even order them in with an Rx on file.

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