Looks like they are ramping up the fear in OHIO of filling a non-bona fide does this mean that the Pharmacist should confiscate the prescription?.. What is going to happen if the Pharmacist’s professional discretion is largely influenced by personal phobias, biases or other issues ? If Pharmacist starts looking for something that is doubtful, questionable, suspicious origin or poses a risk to the health of a patient.. It is not going to be hard for a Pharmacist, using personal biases, to justify saying no. If they don’t confiscate the prescription, looks like the “pharmacy crawl” is expanding from Florida to Ohio.
DATELINE: OHIO
On February 1, 2016, updates to rule 4729-5-20 of the Ohio Administrative Code will go into effect. These updates include new requirements on when a pharmacist is required to review patient information in the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS). To assist you in the implementation of this updated rule, the Board has put together a one-page fact sheet and pocket card that provides the circumstances in which a pharmacist will have to query OARRS.
In addition, the Board has also created a one-page sheet designed to assist pharmacists in talking with a patient in situations where they may need to refuse to fill a prescription. Entitled “Sometimes We Just Have to Say No”, the fact sheet provides an overview of when prescriptions are not considered valid, explains a pharmacist’s corresponding responsibility under the law and provides a phone number where patients and families can locate an addiction services provider.
These resources may be accessed here: www.pharmacy.ohio.gov/OARRSRules See below
The Board would like to remind all pharmacists that a corresponding responsibility rests with the pharmacist who dispenses any prescription. An order purporting to be a prescription issued not in the usual course of bona fide treatment of a patient is not a prescription and the person knowingly dispensing such a purported prescription, as well as the person issuing it, shall be subject to the penalties of law. Pharmacists should always use their professional judgment when making a determination about the legitimacy of a prescription (OAC 4729-5-20(G), 4729-5-30(A) & 4729-5-21(A)).
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just a way to fine people a lot of money. Pharmacist and chains both have deep pockets and government needs it to fund the new free health care expansion.
Ohio. Home of the most gullible people on Earth?
Coming to a theatre near you. We will be seeing this all over if the ignorance in america continues to grow. I recommend if you have not been putting away 5-10 more if possible(tell no one)pills a month it s time. protect yourself. What if they deny you ask yourself do you have enough put away to protect yourself, your job your family. No one can afford to detox when they don’t choose to. Don’t trust law enforce or any pharmacist ,trust NO ONE .they are not your friends they are worried about there “Butts” not yours. Good luck to all. If this keeps going el Chapo will be a trillion aire….
Ohio is the most hopeless state in the union. What there is of it. The state is well known by polls for the people there being the unhappiest and lowest esteemed people in the country. So they come to Florida and bring their sad butts here along with their misery and instead of changing they bring their garbage attitude with them and screw this place up too. Time to build a wall around it!
thank you, Mr. Trump
Sounds like a personal vendetta for someone. Please try to leave personal, bitter and prejudice out of what is an important discussion.
Wow. Can you imagine getting the pharmacist to tell you that he or she is not comfortable feeling your pain medication and handing you a brochure for addiction treatment? With something as severe as complex regional pain syndrome or any other invisible debilitating painful disease? That translates from being soul crushing to soul eraser. It’s a sad day for Ohio and the trouble patients in that state.
Fellow patients not troubled patients.
auto-correct Freudian slip?