Hello my name is xxx xxxxxx and my wife xxxxx .We read a article on the internet that was about ( can a pharmacist refuse to fill a legitimate prescription). After reading this i am really not sure if a pharmacist at Walmart can refuse to fill it.On 9-6-2017 my wife xxxxx had her dr. appointment and received a prescription that was a e script to Walmart in montecello n.y. When she arrived to the store the pharmacist told her she would not fill it because of the amount. She has been going there for the past 5 or more years and never had a problem with the same prescription from the same dr. After a few hrs. going back to the dr office to get it changed to rite aid and they filled it with no problem then I called Walmart corporate office to speak with some one about it and was told some one would call me back but never did maybe you can advise me of this. thank you
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refusing to apply the same standard of informed consent and leaving out one possibility of treatment because someone perceives one as an addict is also discrimination. There are meds that can be prescribed safely. Again it is supposed to be a doctor patient decision.
You are being discriminated against because you are disabled by a condition that causes Chronic Pain and can file a complaint with the DOJ https://www.justice.gov/crt/how-file-complaint#two for failure to treat you in accordance with Standards of Care offered to Others who suffer from different illness. You have the same right to be informed of all treatment options available to you, all the benefits of receiving or refusing treatment. You have the right to be involved in your care and you and your doctor should be making decisions together while respecting his religious beliefs and skill set and while he respects your financial means to afford such treatment available, ability to comply beliefs and preferences, reasonable contraindications. Your Government signed a treaty committing to ensure reasonable access to pain management. If you choose to file a complaint I will help provide you with information and support. You can also file a complaint with the doctor’s respective Governing Body.
keep a journal of your struggle. Your pain level on a scale of one to ten, same with your anxiety level. emotional status. eg I myself feel as though I have an impending threat, date and time your entries. Document what you are trying to do to help cope or reduce your pain if you are able. If you need support I am on Twitter @Wanita1.
http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/quality_safety/GLs_Ens_Balance_NOCP_Col_EN_sanend.pdfThis is the current World Health Organization Guidelines. If you are able, read them. They may provide comfort in knowing that the United Nations supports you along with WHO and many other
From fb:
“Thank you so much for accepting my friend request. I have no idea what prompted me to contact you but I sit here tonight preparing to check into a psychiatric hospital to detox off the opiates that I was prescribed for almost 15 years and now I can not find a single soul to prescribe them to me. Mine is a textbook case of the hysteria that has overcome our nation. In 2013, after ten years with the same prescribing physician, I was informed that he would no longer be giving any of his patients opiates any longer due to a patient’s death. Obviously, not mine nor did I ever breach the contract, fail a drug screen or ask for early refills. I was on a stable dose for three years, yes it was above the 90mme that is being “suggested” but, it worked for me. I was given a three month supply and sent on my way to pain management where no sooner did the door close behind the PA/NP was I informed that if I didn’t have terminal cancer I would be titrated off all opiates. My thoughts on the matter were irrelevant. I signed myself out of that clinic and then spent the next three years trying to find another pain clinic that would keep me on my prior dose that I was stable and content on. I found no one. My PCP had agreed to “bridge” the gap until I was able to find a provider but that day never came. I was on a medication that didn’t alleviate my pain whatsoever but since he was my primary care doctor he said his hands were tied and that he was out of his comfort zone even prescribing them to me and therefore he wouldn’t adjust the medication the first pain clinic had reduced me to.
I have medical records inches think that document me need for opiates yet each time I would visit a pain doctor I was told that my condition didn’t cause pain or that I was addicted and needed “Suboxone”…blah, blah, blah. My orthopaedic surgeon has written letters that confirm I have a connective tissue disorder and that my bones are the age of a 75-85 year old woman when I am only 46. They don’t want to operate until I am older as the replacement surgery has a high failure risk due to my disorder. I have yet to have one pain doctor even take the time to read my MRI results let alone give me an examination. I can not go to the ER to receive pain relief as they all say they won’t treat chronic pain. The guidelines say this and that. Sorry, see ya’!
So now, my PCP is leaving his clinic and I have no other option but to check into a detox facility. What’s even worse, is that I can not use marijuana as I have a rather strange reaction to it. I’ve tried Kratom as well, nada. Neurontin and gabapentin (spell) both make me feel drunk and stupid. Also, I have been tested and have a confirmed diagnoses of being a poor metaboliser involving the CYP-450 enzyme (I have one allele working at 50%) group with being a rapid metaboliser of methadone enzyme. (C19 I think??) The doctors don’t care. Even with the proof right in front of them. CBD oil is about the only thing I haven’t tried and I have little hope that it will be successful. This is very disappointing and discouraging and if I have to go through withdrawal after 15 years I will too be suicidal which is why I’m checking in. Now, I will definitely be labeled an addict and most likely end up never being prescribed opiates again. I’m supposed to have right foot reconstruction on December 12th and I desperately tried to find a doctor to prescribe to me before because if I have to go through detox I will most likely cancel the surgery so I don’t have to go through this all over again! So, basically I am going to be worse off instead of better after I go through “treatment” for opiate dependence.
Thank you again, I just wanted to share my story because I honestly do not know what to do at this point, other than wave my white flag and surrender. I love what you’re doing and I sure hope things go back to normal for you soon!! Thanks for reading.
Please forgive any errors as I wasn’t able to go back and proofread! Lol. ☺️”
Sad
Poignant
Tragic
What world is this?
https://www.justice.gov/crt/how-file-complaint#two If a pharmacist refuses to fill a prescription for a person who is disabled by Chronic Pain then one should file a complaint with the DOJ https://www.justice.gov/crt/how-file-complaint#two because they have been discriminated against. They would not refuse to fill the prescription of someone who is diabetic