This showed up as a comment on my blog today… can you imagine the “suffering” of a person dependent on 100 mcg/hr Fentanyl and 120 mg of Oxycodone daily being thrown cold turkey into withdrawal. Apparently Walgreens’ “good faith policy” now supersedes the Pharmacy practice act and the individual Pharmacist’s professional discretion. It is impossible for a corporation to obtain a PharmD degree and pass the national boards to become a licensed Pharmacist… it would appear that Walgreen via its “good faith policy” may be actually practicing pharmacy without a license or at least interfering with their employee Pharmacists from practicing pharmacy as provide by their license and the practice act. The Florida Board of Pharmacy is fully aware of this issue and while they are “discussing” the issue.. pts are suffering, some are committing suicide… not ever pt is getting the pain management that they are entitled to
I live near Jacksonville in Callahan(Nassau county)I get 120 oxycodone and 100 microgram fentanyl patches both for 30 day supply. I went walgreens a little over three months ago and my doc accidentally wrote my scrips wrong,he wrote 45 day supply of 50 mcg fentanyl patches and 120 30 mgs 5 to 6 a day witch is a 20 day supply and insurance wouldn’t cover because of that and I got denied and pharmacist said I have to wait 90 days before I could try back again.now all of my prescriptions are right but the secrectchecklist said if I’ve been denied by a Walgreens they will not fill them but she said I couldn’t try back for 3 months.does any one know if I should not try and fill the patches or should I try everything because I’ve only been on the fentanyl for 4 months and the secret checklist said I need to be on the same medication for 6 months.please help???u can email me at gleaton.bobby@yahoo.com thanks
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When the secret checklist got released by one of their techs….it read like the a veiled way for the company to dictate not filling pain scripts and to use as an ‘out’ for the ‘I’m not comfortable’ crowd. One could have called and gotten an insurance override. Agree with you…the corporation does not have an actual degree to qualify to take the boards to get the real license
Gangsters. Not professionals. That’s what political cronyism has created. To the extent that the mass media sell out the public, to tell crooks’ side of the story, those mass media are abandoning the First Amendment protections under which they operate.
Perhaps they will begin to notice, when people turn to blogs like this one, to get the real news…and simply ignore what the media shills say, for sleazy operators like Walgreen’s board of directors.