Walgreens blackballing people on pain meds

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by Roselvr

Having trouble getting a prescription for pain medication filled at Walgreens? File a complaint here.

Thanks, I filed a complaint.

The problem we had last month with Walgreen's was a little different.

They shorted us one pain prescription for 240 tablets of Hydrocodone by providing only 200 and not saying anything to us about it. This left my wife short on her medication at the end of the month.

They shorted us on another pain perscription for 60 tablets by providing only 43, they did tell us they were short, but we understood we could get the remaining tablets later in the month. But when we tried to do that, they insisted we had to get another written perscription from the Doctor before they could do so. This is a hardship for us as the pain management doctor's office is 30 miles away.

We have since learned from the Pain Management PA that refusing to fill a shorted prescription later, without another written prescription, is a Walgreen's company policy, not a law.

We also learned that many of his Pain Management patients who use Walgreen's and CSV have complained that the pain medication they have been getting recently is weaker then what they had been getting earlier. We could confirm that the color of the tablets from Walgreens has changed so we tried a different pharmacy yesterday when we got a new prescription from Pain Management.

My wife confirms that the medication we got from the HEB pharmacy is stronger then what she had been getting from Walgreen's.

The Pain Management PA informed us that pharmacies can legally sell medications as much as 20% weaker then the prescribed amount. Some corporate pharmacies like Walgreen's appear to be substituting weaker and therefore cheaper medications, in order to maximize their profit. They recently did this with the

This appears to be true from our recent experience.

[PippySkiddles]

Originally Posted by NHartphotog

Stops you from being attacked when picking up meds, but does nothing about the endless hoops pain patients are forced to jump through.

Is there ANY hope for sanity coming back to America?

true there..........

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by Madeline2121

I think you may have misunderstood somewhere. If the pharmacy only has half of your prescription on file they will give you the other half when they get it in without you having to go back to the doctor for another prescription for the last half that they already prescribed you. What you can't do is split one prescription between multiple pharmacies. You need to call around and ask different pharmacies if they have what you need in stock. If they do get it filled there and let the pharmacist know that you will require the same amount the next month. Using multiple pharmacies for a narcotic prescription looks suspicious. Pick a pharmacy, let them know in advance what you need, and stick with it. If you go to a pain clinic you need to use the same pharmacy each time because around here you will get cut off by the clinic if you use different ones. As another poster mentioned, people are robbing these pharmacies at gunpoint, so in some cases it is not safe to keep large amounts of narcotics on hand.

That was not true with our experience with Walgreen this last month, they did not have enough of the medication on hand to fill a prescription and when we tried to get the additional medication later in the month, they insisted they could not provided it unless my wife provided another written prescription from that same doctor. Her pain management PA tells us this is not the law, it is a corporate policy of Walgreen's.

[PippySkiddles]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Thanks, I filed a complaint.

The problem we had last month with Walgreen's was a little different.

They shorted us one pain prescription for 240 tablets of Hydrocodone by providing only 200 and not saying anything to us about it. This left my wife short on her medication at the end of the month.

They shorted us on another pain perscription for 60 tablets by providing only 43, they did tell us they were short, but we understood we could get the remaining tablets later in the month. But when we tried to do that, they insisted we had to get another written perscription from the Doctor before they could do so. This is a hardship for us as the pain management doctor's office is 30 miles away.

We have since learned from the Pain Management PA that refusing to fill a shorted prescription later, without another written prescription, is a Walgreen's company policy, not a law.

We also learned that many of his Pain Management patients who use Walgreen's and CSV have complained that the pain medication they have been getting recently is weaker then what they had been getting earlier. We could confirm that the color of the tablets from Walgreens has changed so we tried a different pharmacy yesterday when we got a new prescription from Pain Management.

My wife confirms that the medication we got from the HEB pharmacy is stronger then what she had been getting from Walgreen's.

The Pain Management PA informed us that pharmacies can legally sell medications as much as 20% weaker then the prescribed amount. Some corporate pharmacies like Walgreen's appear to be substituting weaker and therefore cheaper medications, in order to maximize their profit. They recently did this with the

This appears to be true from our recent experience.

seems like we ALL need to BlackBall Walgreens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

This thread has run its course and is veering into a liability issue for CD, Closed.