Walgreens Oxycodone Filling Tricks
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I have read all the posts and found that the best way i found is on the 29th of aug i talked to the pharmacy manager and explained the dilemma i was facing and she told me just to transfer all my other scripts to her location and then drop off my oxy script and methadone and that they would order them for me if they were out.Bam ten days later i got a call yesterday that they had my script filled and to come pick them up.Hope this helps those having problems getting their meds filled.Good luck and god bless.

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Re: Dwayne (# 168)

im having a huge issue with walgreens its been almost a month to the date of when my prescription was wriiten and Walgreens keeps telling me they need a code ..then we have to talk to dr...they have gave me excuse after excuse ! i dont know what to do...im a legitament patient with legit perscription and in legit pain ,horrible, and can not do 80% of everyday life and living its a 10mg oxycodone and yes its that important and has gave me quality of life! i need help on how to get my script filled and soon im in bad shape! help please help! any imput is greatly valued ...thank you and walgreens is a horrible pharmacy and have me feeling ashamed

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Re: Jane (# 167)

Your pharmacist does not just decide what medication to put you on that is up to your doctor. The pharmacist can't just say oh here I want to put you on this MS contin as well as your oxycodone I wish they could do that.

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Re: patricia (# 7)

I switched over to Sav-On pharmacy in Albertsons. Walgreens drove me insane trying to fill my oxy every month. I've been at Sav-On for almost a year now and I'm yet to have any issues. Also if you're a cash paying customer it's a lot cheaper. They make it way too difficult for those in serious pain. We are not kids, leave us the f*** alone and stop with this overriding doctor bulls***.

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Re: CMJ (# 6)

I have been to 4 pharmacies trying to get my oxycodone filled after being a customer for over 10-yrs at my local Walgreens and the new mgr refused to fill it. I also read Walgreens was sued for $80M related to filling opioids. The pharmacist wanted to control when I am under the influence, e.g., (I take one 30mg every AM with Norco thereafter for breakthrough pain for my chronic, permanent pain.) by putting me on a 12-hr time-released morphine drug for breakthrough pain with the oxy, thereby controlling how I take my meds. We all have things to do in life, and when I need to drive somewhere, I can't be under the influence of drugs. What they've done is criminal and wrong, and the chronic pain sufferer is the victim!

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Re: DontJudgeWithoutAsking (# 155)

Amen! I feel the same way! I’m almost terrified to get my medicine filled every month. It makes me feel awful when I have to go and get my pain medicine filled because most of he time they look at you like you are a serial killer.
Most of the time I have my husband go and get my script filled. I shouldn’t have to feel this bad about it. I am in continues pain ALL day long and I can’t even imagine not being able to take it. I hope things will change in the future.

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I'm responding to the person that said they got there Walgreens prescriptions 10 days later and they were happy with that I'd like to know what the heck they did for that 10 days I know I couldn't wait 10 days I can't be without my meds for one day

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I haven't had a problem with Walgreens and I've been going to them for the past few months. I used to get 240 oxy 30s and was going to a moms and pops that know me but now I get 180 20s a month and Walgreens been good...if they give me a problem I'll just have to go back to paying in cash at the mom and pops pharmacy which I was going to for a couple years so they know me there...btw I just turned 26 so idk how much age factors in...when I was like 21 I would get weird looks

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I had to go through shoulder replacement 8 weeks ago. I've been getting my pain meds from Walgreens and today I was told that they would fill it this time but no more. I have to get physical therapy and it's really very painful. I can't do pt without meds. The pharmacist told me my Doctor needs to put me on a long acting med. I went through that when I had my hip replacement surgery and they just didn't help. I hurt so much that I couldn't do pt without the immediate release oxycodone. I think that my Dr knows better than she the pharmacist what I need to help control my pain. Walgreens needs to have everyone to take their scripts some where else. I'm sure that they would change this policy. What gives them the power to try and say or think that they are god and try to think that they know what kind of misery we go through every minute of the day and night? I still think my Dr knows what's better for pain control. He went to med school for 10 years, but how about the jerks who made these policies? I'm going through hell because I am in severe pain. It is well known that it is really important for pain management to help recover. I hope everyone who reads this takes their business elsewhere. May God help us all who live in pain and suffer because the government bulls***. I pray for my sisters and brothers out there. GOD BLESS.

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I like the people that say they are always in pain even after they take their pain medications they are liars they are just addicts trying to get as many pain medications as they can because after you take you are pain medication you are supposed to feel no pain. I like the way they wear back braces and ride their carts. I call BS on them

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I've read a few times that people have gotten methadone and opiates as well prescribed at the same time. I've been on both and if you are taking methadone none of the opiates will work.

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Unfortunately so many other injured hard working americans have found themselves in the same situation and "el Chappo" or Any illicit drug dealers don't judge or even require a prescription!! They're Now Called Junkies!!! As LONG AS THERE'S A DEMAND THERE WILL BE A SUPPLY!!! And until the Drug Laws are REPEALED it will not change!! Ask yourselves Who Benefits from the War On Drugs!!! It's Not the American People. They are only jailed and imprisoned by this Unconstitutional War On Drugs.

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I just had my oxycodone 30 filled at Walgreens on Decatur and Alta

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I remember when i was a child Every eve on national news there were reporters on the scene and video of African Americans being Sprayed with FireHoses,having police dogs(Large German Shepards) Sicked on them as well as being Clubbed about the Head Shoulders & Legs Literaly Every Evening. All for simply wanting their unalienable God Given Rights!!! But im Sad to say the reactions i saw all too often was its just the #×$$€£$(african americans). As long as the people watching this far away and in a seemingly upper class and of different color was the only ones being terribly Wronged Discriminated Aganst - well its never going to be us seemed the common attitude.
Before my time i was taught it was only the Red Man and on nazi germany it was only the jews!!
Well as All Even Semi intelligent people have now learned- there but for the grace of God go I- for now!!
But sooner or later it will if left unchecked come to every door!!!
A few short years ago it was Only the Hippies or Junkies- well folks Do these Veterans & Everyday sounding people just wanting what their Medical Drs. Professionals in their fields have decided in their Professional Opinions have deemed these poor hard working country serving people Deserve nay Need!!!
Do thay seem like just Hippies or Just Junkies or Just Jews Or Just Human Beings of Whatever Color or Race???
Or are thay Our Brothers & Sisters in Need of Medecine?? Not Easily Obtained Prescription carrying Humans In Need Of Relief who have followed All of societys guidelines for Proving to Professionals that they are indeed "in need" of said Medecine Drugs or Substances!! Their all the same!! Just different connotations implied.
People Wake Up!!!
When its Your Wife,Husband,Son or Daughter barelydealing with enough pain that those meds are the difference in having a moticum of Quality of Life & Eating the End of A Shotgun Barrell!!
Then It Will Matter To YOU!!!
Repeal The Drug Laws.
Their a Govt MONEYMAKING INDUSTRY.

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Cut some pills in half thru the month to make up for your shortage

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Dear sick n tired,

You just hit the nail on the head!! If all drug laws were repealed these problems would take care of themselves! But in order to perpetuate the war on drugs the real people are not important!! But just think if he war on drugs and drug laws were repealed think of all the "Soldiers" that would have to find real jobs!!! We can recall our elected officials and elect reps who will do just this!! Then let the cops who shot themselves n the foot try a real job & god forbid they were to need meds to make a living & feed their families some other way than grabbing a lil handful or briefcase full of dirty dirty drug money!! I now want to say im sure not all police do this!!!!
But everyone I know propagates the war on drugs!!! So wrong. Talk about war pigs.

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Almost every pharmacy I've stepped foot in gives me the stink eye, purely & only after seeing the Oxycodone. As a veteran of the USAF, who was injured in a helicopter crash, I get weird looks or questions every month. (Yes, even at the same pharmacy, as they don't retain staff beyond 6-12 months)

They have denied me before, usually followed by me showing them my injury, after I lifted the back of my shirt up, showed where I almost had my spine severed in the crash & explain how I'm lucky to be alive, let alone walking.

Point of this is, I shouldn't have to walk in & show my injury to have my Rx filled. It was written by a doctor. Period. I don't care what you think as a pharmacist, you don't know how I feel, thus, you cannot tell me with a quick glance whether or not I need medication. (Before any of you Pharmacists respond, think of how many times you've dismissed a person without ACTUALLY KNOWING the situation?)

There's a proxy war between doctors and pharmacists, with us patients getting almost all of the collateral damage. Stop overthinking everything & do your job; fill the damn bottle.

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I was told by a Walgreens pharmacist that I had to also be on a long acting pain med to be able to fill my b oxycodone. Have been on c them for 17 years! When do they start prescribing what I need?

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Please let me know if you decide to sue. {edited for privacy}. I find it heartbreaking that a pharmacist would turn away a loyal customer because of personal reasons. I was also questioned about my dr. I have been a Walgreens customer for years. And only get my pain meds from them. In these situations where else can u go, what else can u do? Suffer & cry because of the pain.

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You can do as the rest of america does'- help perpetuate the unconstitutional war on drugs!! Drugs are never mentioned in the constitution or by the founding fathers!! Lets all band together & get the unconstitutional war on drugs stopped'!! And all drug laws repealed!!! By doing this we can empty our prison machine by over 1/2!!! And feed the hungry in america!! Not to mention the billions of dollars that could be saved each & every year!!! Lets band together and repeal the unconstitutional drug laws!! As the war on drugs is stripping away our cival rights one by one and so that our great grandchildren will not know what rights are!!' this must be done as there is no winning this (mega money making) war on drugs!! It serves only to make certain agency's rich as well as all the people who build prisons, furnish the handcuffs, the vehicles used to transport "Violators", the people who furnish the plastic cups as well as those who furnish everything down to the little packs of salt n pepper at every meal for every prisoner. Also significant millions, possibly billions could be saved from the welfare & various social programs that each prisoner's family I.E. Wife & children must resort to when the breadwinner becomes a "Prisoner" of the war on drugs!! Think sheep!! We must act now!!

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All pharmacies have the tight to not fill your prescription. They can call your dr and find out y u need this med and y so long. They have more power than dr.I am a chronic pain patiant and I have done my research. Pharmacist do not have to fill u pm script if they don't want to.

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