Oxycodone Shortage In Florida 2012 (Top voted first)

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Can a pharmacist just be quite and fill the script the doctor ordered for his patient.They lie to us and then fill freds script for the same thing and smile while they do it.We are tax paying citizens in pain and the DEA has made a real mess of everything. Real patients cant even get their meds.

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get this..last month the cvs pharmacist wouldnt fill my rx(after taking it and saying 2 hours) until i called and got him a diagnose code. which i did and im thinking...when is it the pharmacist job to do anything except fill the rx written by a DOCTOR. now they question you, and let everyone around you here what your there for, etc..i would think cvs may even be violating my hippa law-privacy. bunch of bs man

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Wake up america. It is called problem reaction solution.THIS is a criminal gov. they flood the population with opiates, wait until everyone is addicted, and then crack down. IT is a way to control populations. These criminals must be stopped. I am a legitimate pain patient but I warned everyone that the data base is only the beginning.It is going to get worse unless we ban together. I say anyone who cannot fill their script should call in sick. Im sure there are millions of us. This has got to stop. If we keep letting these power hungry bastards get away with this, we will be doomed.

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@tom: you are being ageist. You say "young kids" up to age 35 dont need strong pain meds. That's a complete generalization and totally untrue. There are millions of "kids" in that age range that have bone pain from cancer, have been mangled in horrible car accidents, and conditions like lupus that affect more than just the elderly. I'm 30 and was hit by a car 3 years ago, which brought in very painful knee degeneration. I don't take strong painkillers but i certainly could use them much of the time. I'm also a medical student who sees many, many kids come into the ER with debilitating diseases and having been in accidents causing horrific injuries and they need the strongest pain meds available more than most of the elderly patients they are prescribed to. Don't blame everyone under 35 with painful conditions- blame the junkies who simply want to get high, so they go from doctor to doctor with concocted stories of fictitious pain! Don't group us all together- that's just as bad as pharmacists that assume everyone walking up with an oxycodone prescription is a drug abuser.

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"Shortages of pharmaceutical drugs pose a serious and growing threat to public health. While a very small number of drugs in the United States experience a shortage in any given year, the number of prescription drug shortages in the United States nearly tripled between 2005 and 2010, and shortages are becoming more severe as well as more frequent. The affected medicines include cancer treatments, anesthesia drugs, and other drugs that are critical to the treatment and prevention of serious diseases and life threatening conditions."

Read more here:
whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/31/executive-order-reducing-prescription-drug-shortages

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Plz let me no how i can go about signing this petition causebim 39 & have had major issues with my bk 4 some time & do what I'm supposed to & shouldnt have his kinda problem..

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its a catch 22. if you dont give them your id, they will just tell you they dont have it. if you do give them your id, they usually write all over your rx and give it back and say we dont have it. i got mad when they did this and told them straight up dont write on my rx's if your not going to fill them...it looks bad and makes it harder to go to the next pharmacy.
as far as hippa, lol what privacy/ good one never again if your on pain meds. dam dea and govt

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The whole country seems to be in a sort of bind in so far as normal patients being depicted as addicts and many who are unable to get their scripts filled no matter who they are or what they do.

I think petitions such as this one do significantly help; but the real question is, are they even going to do something about these complaints even with all the petitions floating around the net?

We should hope so, but knowing our government, that's all we can do at this point.

Your efforts are appreciated and I went ahead and signed the petition. Even though I'm not a patient, I support the legitimate ones. Good luck to you and everyone else out there fighting against this unfortunate situation.

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the dea sux and them and the government is a fail. this is america but legit pain and cancer patients cant get their meds...what a bunch of crap. i fought for this country and now i spit on it. pathetic. im really thinking of moving to uk, or canada where these problems arent problems as it should not be any problem here but it is.

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cindy-absolutely correct. i dont have the slightest idea how to fix this problem. one thing would be to ease up for legit patients. the days of pill mills are gone and people in pain clinics nowadays have valid mri's with real pain issues. so i dont understand why the pharmacies cant all just fill the rx. they are playing doctor and its just plain rude and not right.
LAST MONTH, the cvs filled for me and when i went back this month the pharmacist was gone to either another store or got fired. he filled my rx for me. so corporate now just seems to move these pharmacists around to different close by stores to avoid same dispenser each month as their so worried about their own buts and could care less about us people in pain.

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Working isn't the only thing that "messes your back up". Ever hear of a car accident or a fall??

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Also, "kids" aren't the bulk of the Abusers, so I don't know why you keep using that word. The average abuser is in their 30s. You are judging people based on their ages. Period.

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Flatom you think because your TWO kids used, that changes the FACT that the bulk of users are in their 30s?? Seriously?? Your logic is completely ridiculous. Look it up. Your kids aren't everyone.

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Were not all "Junkies"..If you had any real medical training you would know that there are VERy painful conditions that can affect the human body. Dont moralize to us.Few of us like the idea of having to resort to narcotic meds for relief. I hope your body and health remain in a painfree condition,so that you dont have to deal with this. Good day.

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Flatom, you are, quite frankly, too ignorant to understand. The age of the average pill abuser is NOT an opinion, it's a sociological fact. I can't really understand the rest of what you said. And I'm not going on MY experience, because that would be irrelevant, get it?? Just like you saying the average abuser is a kid based on YOUR experience is ridiculous and irrelevant. You don't get it. And I'm done trying to explain it to you. Bye!

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State of Florida now checks ID for prescriptions of narcotic medication..Since when is anyone but police officer allowed to demand ID from you? And. Just where are they sending my DL number,and why? Does the data leave the strore? How does HIPA laws stand on this? Its nobody but me,and my doctors business how he trets my chronic pain. i dont ike the idea of how everyone who is prescied a narcotic med,is seen as a dealer,abuser or addict.It isnt true. Ive een on it for 11 years for spinal problems,aand dont sell it,dont like taking it,but dont like chronic pain any better.I dont wish it on anyone,but only til the pain becomes their own,do they get a etter perspective of the whole issue of addiction,dependance,and being kept up night after night with severe pain .

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I agree this is so wong to make the people that really need this SUFFER. What needs to be done to correct this nightmare. Please help. Another thing is that no matter what the doctor writes for the pharm decides what they are going to fill. Since when does the pharmacy decide what u need. They dont even know what problems who may have.

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Well first of all about your I. D .. Don't you how your I'd when you buy alcohol ot tobacco products ? That is not a violation of any hippa rights. I am a tech and we started askin for ID, #1 because the DEA says we have to and #2 let's say you came back to pick up your narcotic meds and we tell you , sorry I don't have anything ready for you. It was picked up an hour ago. But guess what , it wasnt you . Trust me, it's helping you out in the end to make sure the right person is getting their needed meds. Also as far as hippa. Explain this one to me, we must, according to DEA scan a copy of your ID and rx even if we don't fill it and fax that to the DEA. I don't understand how that is not a violation of your privacy rights . Why should we tell anyone what medication you are on and especially when we are not even filling it for you? Shouldn't be our business to tell DEA . But the DEA in Florida has been investigating Walgreens and actually restricted some stores from selling any controlled meds stating that Walgreens was dispensing too much oxycodone? But then at the same time they are saying that we deny too many and that we cannot tell a patient that we do not have then in stock if in fact we do. So trust me when I say this is not an easy issue for people on my side of it too. The ones dispensing or denying patients . Pharmacist who went through 7 years of college with doctorates in medicine can lose their licsene that they worked so hard for , and careers ruined if we don't do what the DEA says.

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Flatom, I couldn't read your comment. Its a mess. Sorry.

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flatcom- STFU you know nothing. "only people with cancer should get these" then earlier you said, "well people in real pain and bad car wrecks and surgeries should get them" so which is it...you don't even know the facts...the pill mill days have been long gone and only left with drug dealers giving to your addict kids(sorry for that but its all across America now...should have been a better parent) and deal with it...stop saying legit patients are overprescribed because since 2010 none and I mean noon gets 240 roxies anymore and Xanax etc. its very tightly regulated and primary doctors cant write these anymore and they must goto a pain clinic. if anything, legit people are now being under prescribed. as I am. so, go take your kids and get them into rehab...blame yourself, their friends parents and stop blaming the rest of us who actually need pain meds in normal dosage amounts without having to buy off the street to kill the pain when were legit...blame rick scott and dea and pam bondi. you really need to seek help and deal with the facts...none of which you seem to up to date with.

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i am signing this petition because i am seeing a pain mgmt doctor in quitman, ga. the pharmacies in quitman have been pressuring all the doctors in quitman, valdosta, thomasville etc,etc to quit prescribing the amounts (120, 150 or 180). this is outrageous!!! i was getting 240 roxicodone a month. now i moved to ga. and they cut my meds in half! now my doc wrote me a script for opana 10 mg IR and i cant find them at any pharmacy anywhere near quitman. does anyone know how i can find these opana 10mg?

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