2012 Oxycodone 30mg Shortage In Florida (Page 4)

My spouse, who is in severe, chronic pain, has been a customer of Walgreens for many years. We live in Pinellas County, Florida. Everyday this week we have driven from Walgreen's to Walgreen's trying to fill his prescription for Roxicodone 30mg, to no avail. I cannot get any help from his regular pharmacy. I know that it's dangerous for them to tell a total stranger which store has them in stock, but I don't understand since they know him, why they can't call around or give us any assistance. I am at a total loss as to what to do & would appreciate any information that you could provide. It is so hard to see him in so much pain. Thank you.

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@jerry, Dont know if you are still havinng a problem filling in Naples or found a place? If you still need a place that always have let me know!...... If you found a place in ft.myers let me know! Cuz I live in Naples so places I know in Naples wont fill for me cuz my Dr. is in Ft.Myers! And I cant find them anywhere there, they say if you have not been here in passed 3 mons. cant help you! And I get from Walgreens they dont feel comfortable filling these! Then why do they have them?? Anyway let me know! And I would and am trying to find good dr. in Naples but most I have tried say they are not exepting new patients! And I have just been in 2 serious car accidents, in past 2 mons. neither my fault first my car was totaled then the rental! Its crazy around here!

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Walgreen's has a sign up at all there stores around here that says "It is the Pharmacist choice if they will fill a prescription" or "The Pharmacist has the right to refuse to fill any prescription they choose."

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Any suggestions on where I could go to fill in the Sarasota area????? I've been out for few days and can't find anywhere. Seems as though "Every Pharmacy" is out. Sucks!!! Ridiculously bad pain! Suffering! Can't take another night. If anyone can suggest where to go in Sarasota, I'd be ever grateful!!!

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Yeah they have the same signs in all of the Walgreens here in Bradenton as well. "It is the pharmacists sole discretion as to wethher or not they fill your narcotic prescription" I understand the concern when & 19 year old kid comes skipping in with a script for 240 30 mg tabs & a pocket full of $ wiling to pay any price because he'll just turn around & sell 'em all for $25 a piece. However they are taking it too far. Idk what I'm going to do, switch meds I guess, anyone have any suggestions for a comparative alternative pain medication?

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@Disabled999 I went to every major pharmacy & mom n pop from Palmetto to South Sarasota, probably hit 70 pharmacies total over 3 days & u got the same story everywhere I went, "sorry we don't have those in stock" or "sorry- we no longer carry that medication". My regular pharmacist told me that no matter how much or how often he orders he only gets 3 bottles a week. That's 300 tablets or 2 patients per week. That was what several other pharmacists told me as well. Basically getting your script filled is right up there with winning the lottery these days & for hundreds of legit pain patients life has again became unlivable thanks to the efforts of the DEA & local govt officials who are so out of touch with reality that they don't understand it is they are really hurting....i eventually was able to fill my script at Walgreens, I got lucky because they had just got a shipment in, but while waiting I watched them turn down 2 more people. Idk how long you can go, but thankfully my Dr. sets my appt's a few days early so I don't have to stress to badly. My point is you never know when you'll walk in & they'll say "ok, 30 mins" They are out there, but the DEA is seriously limiting the amount sent to each pharmacy. As for me, I might just switch meds, this is craziness!

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Any chance you are in the Sarasota area??? If you are will u PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE "share" where u got urs filled??? I just can't stand the agonizing pain, then to be sick on top of it. Ridiculous! Can't take it much longer. Please someone help me to fill in or around Sarasota. What good are the scripts and the enormous dr visit charges when the meds aren't even available?!?! Please someone suggest where to fill Oxycodone 30mg in Sarasota !!!! Thank you

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Just boycott freaking Walgreen's they r the worst and most disrespectful pharmacist's I have dealt with! And then u get just the young tech's who are just as rude! It's a joke, how they praise themselves for caring and going out of there way to help customers! I won't step foot in a Walgreen's!

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Telecaster..., please confide in me what CVS in Sarasota. I've been on the hunt for days. I went into my usual cvs and same things. Different Pharm was there and instantly said, no, not in stick! BS! I've been on legitimately for over 1/2 doz years. And yes, I'm a clean-cut white female in my late 30's, and I've been told by other Zpharms the same thing "Font feel comfortable filling". I could see them say that to some of the other people I've come accrossed, because sometimes, I myself wonder if they r just using them for "recreation", or god knows what. Regardless, the people that don't REALLY need them, are hoarding the supply of people like us that can't even function through a day without them, and I've even see "these people" do "deals" in parking lots. BS! THIS is why the supply for people like us, who legitemlly NEED them just to function and try to even maintain a vertical position. Not fair these a**holes are screwing with our lives and the quality of them! In pain.... Miserable.

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Nick, if the "answer" is to Noycott Walgreens, what's another Parmacie that u would recommend??? Please inform. "We", the people who actually can NOT function without this medication, are seriously being affected by this BS. Im getting up bright and early to start my "hunt" once again. (That is if I can manage to get mySelf up and out. Very I'll. :(. Praying for someone on here to be my "savior" and provide good news about who, if anyone in the Darasota area will have received a shipment of the Oxy 30's

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i too like kays,they always seem too have it.but when i first started going there 3 yrs ago the 30s were 1dollar or so,but at the end it was 4dollars,they were very helpful so thats worth alot,didnt treat me like a drug addict like most rx's,i saw the dea is so proud that the sales of oxycodone is down like 80%,they want to take credit 4 winning the war,when all they did is make it unavailable too the rx's,so nobody can buy it and turn away people like myself who has had tramadic injurys,and cancer too have too move out of state just because i dont want too suffer thur what days i have left' but they think thats ok pain so unbearable i pass out.And now tn is on the band wagon,no,no,no,cant have that,but i can have a demerol pump that keeps me so doped i sit and drool,its inhuman to have too choose between my pain relife and my dignity

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Was just at Dr. yest. seems the DEa has shut down the sales of oxycodone by one of the manufacturers here in Fl. So by doing that they have limited the amounts the state has by these 2 manufacturers they audited, and ultimately shut down the manufactering of oxycodone for them.Now the state of Fl. is in a panic to get these in from other states, that limits those states supplies too.My Dr. is in Sarasota and they gave me the scoop. if you have a prob getting this, you must go back to Dr. for a new sript. chnage to a diff med for now. good luck to all of you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH), the second- largest U.S. drug distributor by revenue, agreed to suspend shipments of controlled drugs from a Florida facility for two years in a settlement with the Drug Enforcement Administration."

Source: mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-15/cardinal-dea-settlement-calls-for-two-year-shipping-halt.html

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Hi Alexander....care to share what town u r in?I will run out of methadone in 3 days been out of oxy 30 since June 11.....feel like I am dying but what is even worse is the shame we r all made to feel because we need these meds and have legit illness,dr,and script.Walgreens is absolutely the worst....I couldnt go on the other day after 6 hrs in St Pete cause it just hurt my darn feelings to be treated like this....Being ashamed for being in pain? WTF????

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If u would have drove one more mile north u would have found them.

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Did u get to fill ay lays?

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Did u get to fill at kays... I'm from pasco would they fill it? In so much pain.

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@disabled999
Any luck today?

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no they dont

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I live in Btown, Dr. Is in Bradenton but they filled mine in Srq. If the law is you have to be in your town to fill then how was Sarasota allowed to fill mine.? I think that they are making these rules up as they go along. Whatever is convenient for them at the time. It's total BS. I hate when u don't know what the "policy" is gonna be from one day to the next!!

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I totally understand I have had all same problems as you! I have same story as anyone here! But Walgreens is not helping no more! I was using them for past 7mons. through mail order till two mons. ago they decided to stop unless u had right insurance took them 3 weeks to get my scripts back and they wrote on them filled scratched that out! Of course I could not fill after that! You will have much more luck at CVS now which it was other way around! Do not know why u are attacking me?? They are not the only chain pharmacy in fl.! I maybe if we all did they would start filling them if everyone stopped buying anything from them! you have Publix Cvs Target Walmart sams club costco Riteaid mom and pops! It was a suggestion! But I wish u luck! But u should not take what we are all going through and take it out on me when I have offered to help anyone who lives in Naples even though I cant fill here!

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