2012 Oxycodone 30mg Shortage In Florida (Page 14)
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My spouse, who is in severe, chronic pain, has been a customer of Walgreens for many years. We live in Pinellas County, Florida. Everyday this week we have driven from Walgreen's to Walgreen's trying to fill his prescription for Roxicodone 30mg, to no avail. I cannot get any help from his regular pharmacy. I know that it's dangerous for them to tell a total stranger which store has them in stock, but I don't understand since they know him, why they can't call around or give us any assistance. I am at a total loss as to what to do & would appreciate any information that you could provide. It is so hard to see him in so much pain. Thank you.

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holly-i am not even at my ssi hearing date so i have blue cross insurance(minumal coverage) until i get medicaid. but your right they wont write the meds but the rx plan(my buddy is disabled with ms) and he pays cash for his doctor and fills the rx with medicaid. this is what i will do too. but until i get ssi-medicaid, im paying cash and just not able to get a doctor to take me in vero bch. this county is the worst but i have to deal with it for few more months when i can move.

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she was referring to disability or medicaid

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whats ssi?

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Purdue is your real enemy.
Google Purdue n Dea, Purdue N LEEDA- FBI, Purdue n Naddi, Purdue n FDA and lord who knows who else is enterwined with them. They are creating a monopoly of the opiate market. Before these little roxies got so popular oxycontin was the fav of druggies until their reformulation came out. Since then Purdue has been calling the shots on everything. Research who their employees are and you find agents from all these federal agencies now working for Purdue making double the salaries they made before working only the agencies.
They are all working against pain patients and not helping them. They want patients to think they are helping them, but are they? Really? They are having good doctors shut down because they are NOT rxing enough oxycontin. This company was criminal for lying to doctors in 07 and now they are paying off these agencies including the FDA. Big money, Big Pharma is harming pain patients. Google and see for yourself who all they are funding. They make themselves look like the good guy but that is very wrong. They don't want their patent to run out so they asked for an extention to research oxycontin on children ages 6 -16 to have enough time to obtain an extra 1 and half billion more dollars. Do you think in a so called epidemic that studies on children should be done? For what? All in name of money. Follow the money and you will see why pain medicines are not flowing to those who need them. They will probably return flowing again but they will be PURDUE brand. I find all this very fishy. They also don't want generic meds to be available, only their reformulated Er med. Their old patent is running out in April 2013. I guess we'll see what happens then. Honestly? OP brand is and the new opana is lousy for pain for real pain patients. But everyone should watch for any bills in congress that indicates the sale of removing generic pain meds and stop them by telling your insurance companies to fight against high dollar name brand meds only. This is the goals they want people. They want only Purdue and Endo to be despensed. After Endo collapsed last Feb. I have reason to believe that Purdue bailed them out. Why else would opana get the same timerx patent on their reformulated med? That is the exact ingredint Purdue uses.
There's a conspiracy going on.

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@savage you can switch your primary there;s other docs that do ssi, It's just you can't expect a regular doc to prescribe chronic pain meds dosage--they always refer you to a pain clinic.

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@panicnpain i have vomited on opana 20 mg. Just a smal amt of codein will releave rrestless leg syndrome ( could be physical withdrawal with how you've cut back so much, and the opanas passed thru my tract without digesting and when i was able to digest it, the effects were small 20mg i thought would be stronger. If your doc trusts you, you can ask if they can make urine less freq to avoid the fees-- is the clinic a nice one, or does it have alot of weirdos? maybe you should consider changing to a better one or if you are adjusting to the dropped down level, your regular doc can write it? hope you are having a decent day.

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American Pain: The Largest U.S. Pill Mill's Rise and Fall

In the spring of 2010, the George brothers were the target of Operation Oxy Alley. Local and federal cops raided their businesses, confiscated their opioids, and seized millions of dollars of assets, including safes full of cash stashed away in their mom’s attic, according to prosecutors. In August 2011 the Department of Justice unsealed a five-count indictment outlining a range of charges, from racketeering to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, against 32 individuals, including 13 doctors and one wholesaler involved with the Georges’ clinics. From 2008 to 2010, according to the federal agents, the George twins were the largest illegal dispensers of oxycodone in the U.S.

According to prosecutors, the twins’ pain clinics, over their two-year run, sold 20 million oxycodone pills and brought in $40 million.

It was common for physicians at American Pain to see 100 patients a day, he says. At that rate a doctor would earn roughly $37,500 a week—or $1.95 million a year.

COPY AND PASTE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY:
businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-06/american-pain-the-largest-u-dot-s-dot-pill-mills-rise-and-fall#p2

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@ holly, I've been filling opana in the next county from mine. they're all lairs. Its about 15 miles from my home. I also only get the ir's, no er's. I don't believe a word any of them say @ this point. I've also said before, this pharmacy told me no dilaudid or oxycodone either, won't fill that for me. I feel the same way, lethargic all the time, and 10 mg ir of opana only equals 20 mg of roxycodone ir. I have appt on Friday, and I'm already down to only a few nc I've had severe pain the last few wks. Now, I've been waking up with severe leg cramps and restless leg syndrome. I will talk about that at appt. I know the dr would give 1 more a day of I asked, but I bet the pharmacist won't fill 180. I'm sick of it all. I also have vomited almost every night bc the opana makes me extremely nauseated. Having gastric bypass on top of all this is the nightmare from he*l. I was fine for 7 months until they started this bs of not being able to fill roxycodone. Idk what the answer is. I asked the dr, and je said some patients can still get it filled. When I'm waiting to be seen, 50% of them are nodding and whacked out. It makes me furious. Now, they're sending out urine everyo month @ 1500, of which I have to pay 400 of with insurance. Between office visit, meds and urine, it's costing about 600 a month. Something is very wrong with the system. I'm ready to just suffer, bc I'm sick of this nightmare.

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@savage , sorry to hear this ! i feel the inability to get legit rx filled is causing crime, if you are seeing an ssi doc, he will not give you oxycodone rx, you may be able to gert dialaudid at 2 mg, but pain clinics dont take medicaid, so since u are paying outrageous prices on the street, why not apply that money towards a legit pain doctor who can perscribe? ( i know, cuz you wont be able to fill the rx,right? ) what area r u in? if you;d like to pvt message me xxxxx@xxx {edited for privacy}

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holly-yes i am just in a bad spot cannot afford to keep paying money for dr's. im disabled and my hearing isnt for 4 months so the insurance i have pays very little but the doctor from the start didnt care and because i came from a shut down clinic-he said no roxies, no dilaudid, period. i can have percocet10 325, oxycontin, morphine, methadone.
ive had them all and i told him what works for me and i use to get 4 80's a day the old "working" formula. i get mine to work by cutting into half and dissolve it in lemon juice or emergency vitamix and will liquift the time release making a nice instant working dose. But im working on trying to save money for new dr but need him for ssi, so im kinda at his mercy and even though im legit, he dont care. and i dunno what to do anymore. im resorting to having to buy from people on street and am scared of getting caught its really messed up the govt, dea and whoever is doin this to us all.

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@savage im surprised they cut your dose so dramatically, you should explain this to a different doc if this one makes you pay the 200 for visit and u dont even get the correct dosage. I know the oxycontin has been switching to those indestructable tamper proof ones, which, for me, dont absorb in my body, they basically go straight through my system, maybe thats why you are in pain. did u try switching to dialaudid 8 mg? its easier to get but it takes about 1.5 to equal 1 30 mg oxy for strength. I do this when i cant get oxycodone, but i have noticed it makes me too tired, i fall asleep at the computer! while when i use oxycodone, i dont get the sedating drugged feeling and can do my daily routines almost at 100%

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@shortageinflcausedbyoutofstatepatients you are incorrect on the out of county, i had a walgreen tech about 10 miles away tell me i have to be in a 5 mile radius, i asked her, is that walgreen policy or just your store, she said "thats this store policy" i called back later and another tech told me that is not true! i was able to fill at a chain outside florida while on vacation. they are lying

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your so correct...the way i am and you and thousands of others have had our meds slashed in more than 75% from what i was getting 5 months ago until dr shut down. controlled my pain since 2000 and the current doctor is only giving me less than half of meds that i have used over the past several years to gain control of my life and allowed me to function and have quality of life. now, being cut from 80mg oxycontin 2 tabs twice daily since 2000. To then last year go down to 30mg roxi 1-2 tabs 6-8 hours as needed and this worked fine which was way less than the 320mg oxycontin the other dr had me on for 11 yrs.
now im cut down from that to 20mg oxycontin twice daily.
now can you imagine how you would feel by having a dr do this to me and due to money going to a new dr and insurance, etc which right now isnt good for me so im screwed. my body even with this extremly low dosage when he knows what i was on for yrs. im doing what person above said-suffer and let the body get used to new dosage and hope new doctor comes soon

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walgreens is now the worst place to fill when they used to be the best. I still have no issues with filling my oxycontin scrip but they have not apparently had the roxis/oxys for several weeks. My only luck has been with Sweet Bay, CVS and a couple independent pharmacies. Some may not take your insurance and you'll have to pay a huge price and get reimbursed for a regular price (that's the thing that the others who have doctor shopped have helped us get to). I am also one who has been on pain meds for years, have MRI's etc and all of the sudden Walgreens just no longer would fill the scrips for the immediate release opiate (blues/oxys/roxis). This sucks cause I, too, have had to drive around all over Hillsborough county to get filled. They also will not fill outside of county and many will not do the 180 tabs for you (shich I have too) most are getting down to 120 tabs as a max so please try to wean yourself off. I know its hard, I've been cut in half since december - it is not easy nor is it fair that the docs are the ones who did this to us, we didn't do it!!!

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i tried with my local private pharm, she used to fill for me applying discount card savings, and then when they shut down the distrib, center she claims she cant order them anymore, then, i was sooo pissed at the price gougers at the hospital he was giving me a hard time about going to other pharmacies and he said "is there a reason you are going to other pharmacies, i see you went to discountpharm last month, i said "yes, there is a reason, i have the right as a consumer to shop for the best price, and if you can match her prices i will get everything filled here" this arrrognat guy had the nerve to lie to me and say that it is against the law and you have to go only to one pharmacy & gave me a card urging me to go to their partner pain mgmt doctor ( i guess they wanna keep the $ in the familY ) SO, i got doc to split rx to 15s and 30s, i figured 15s would be half the price, WRONG! theyy charge a dollar more per pill for 15s,,, jerks, OH, then they caught up with the trend of ppl switching to dialaudid 8 mg, which normally is under 100 for each rx, they altered their price to be the same as getting 30 mg oxycodone! there should be a law, Since all this is going on,( i've been going there for 15 years, last 2 years since they upped the price of oxy, they are all walking around with 200 shirts and bling, I hate them,

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Unfortunately the situation isnt getting better just yet and the people suffering like me, well sorry brothers and sisters were going to suffer. unless you can get lucky with not only a doctor but a willing local pharmacist too...all i can say is good luck and happy turkey day. this situation sucks...

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Every pharmacy also has a non- narcotic and narcotic ratio that has to be followed. When they get a shipment in of any narcotic, they have to also purchase a lot of non narcotic meds or else they'll be flagged and dea will come in and warn them or shut them down. My Dr explained this himself to me a few months ago, and I've also read about it online. This is how bad the situation is here in FL. I read 1 pain clinic was shut down, and this Dr prescribed more roxycodone in a year than in the whole state of CA last year. I really believe a lot of these quacks in FL go into pain mgt, and are too free with the rx pad. This causes us legit cpp to pay dearly. I have a family member up north who has a severe back injury , and they get 90 15mg roxycodone a month, won't write for anymore than that. It's coming that only terminally ill patient will be able to fill for high quantities of c2's. God bless and happy Thanksgiving

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they should be able to order it after speaking to your Dr..But a lot af pharmacies dont want to stock it because they think they will end up with alot of drug addics around. The wrong clientele..pisses me off. Thank God I dont have that problem anymore. I go to the same place every month for the last couple years but if they happen to be out. I either have to wait or go through the same crap.

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Yeah.. their discriminating against the people who have forgoten how a pharmacy works..

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i agree...if u were saying the pharmacies are selling them no way but they do discriminate.

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