tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post7650716586595296466..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: How To Annoy PeopleRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-84548802354415887882013-12-29T09:36:40.289-05:002013-12-29T09:36:40.289-05:00anonymous December 17, 2013 at 10:19 PM: Nothing n...anonymous December 17, 2013 at 10:19 PM: Nothing new there. Drug warriors have always been happy to "protect" you by killing you. During Prohibition, the government required industrial alcohol producers to add deadlier and harder to separate poisons, resulting in many deaths. Marijuana fields have often been sprayed with poison. AIDS was spread faster and wider by shared needles, due largely to restrictions on obtaining and possessing needles. And the FDA long fought to ban e-cigarettes, because they would allow nicotine addicts their fix without the accompanying carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and carcinogens.markmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-64964827419014656962013-12-18T11:16:32.290-05:002013-12-18T11:16:32.290-05:00From the perspective of a medical provider, and a ...From the perspective of a medical provider, and a person with a very good friend who is a PharmD:<br />People obtain pain killing medications for three reasons:<br />1 They want to get high<br />2 They want to sell prescription painkillers to others who can't otherwise obtain them.<br />3 People who legitimately need pain killers.<br />Here in Florida, the addicts have figured out two things: <br />1 They will go to jail if caught with narcotics<br />2 but not if they have a prescription<br /><br />With the crackdown here in Florida on doctors known as "the candy man" who are making money writing prescriptions for and selling pain killers, there are many people who have resorted to doctor shopping. They will go to the emergency room, to doctors, and to anywhere else where they think that they can get what they want.<br />There are people who will tell you that they have Fibromyalgia, and are allergic to every pain killer except Dilaudid. This is why many in the health profession, myself and Ambulance Driver included, feel that most patients demanding pain killers (especially for Fibromyalgia) are full of it.<br /><br />Medicaid, in many cases, pays for the drugs, and they are sold at a steep profit on the street. <br />The government, in an attempt to stop this, has started yanking the DEA licenses of pharmacy doctors who do not take steps to curb this practice.<br />That is why Walgreen's is doing it.<br />That is very unfortunate for people like yourself who have a legitimate need.<br />Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-60137522671553407182013-12-17T22:19:52.421-05:002013-12-17T22:19:52.421-05:00>The people you want to blame for this are the ...>The people you want to blame for this are the Feds<br /><br />Yup. Heroin is now cheaper than diverted Rx painkillers and all of a sudden the abusers are dropping like flies from accidental ODs.<br /><br />How do you like your war on some drugs now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-34281012508245581012013-12-17T19:49:40.314-05:002013-12-17T19:49:40.314-05:00@John A. Yes, it was a Meijer store. Problem is, t...@John A. Yes, it was a Meijer store. Problem is, these days, if you try to get picky about where you shop, it ain't too long before you're shopping nowhere.<br /><br />I have a couple of friends who get their recurring scrips by some mail service. Anthem sends me some marketing crap from time to time about doing it that way, which I throw in the trash, because it makes no sense for me. But lately what I'm hearing is that they're turning up the financial penalty for filling your scrips at the B&M pharmacy. Not sure if that makes sense for you, Roberta. Actually, it isn't just that it doesn't make sense for me; I really dislike the whole notion.<br /><br />BTW, long as I'm writing, I'll mention I got my Technician ticket. Woooo.jedhttp://freedomsight.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-29057221053944092402013-12-17T17:10:51.843-05:002013-12-17T17:10:51.843-05:00What Fuzzy Curmudgeon said!
My family doc is the ...What Fuzzy Curmudgeon said!<br /><br />My family doc is the center of my pain control world: migraines, bad back and creeping arthritis occasionally make me need some harder stuff than Advil or Excedrin.<br /><br />She told me that this is all due to the Feds. Walgreens (my pharmacy too) has even posted depressing signs saying "We may be forced to deny you certain medications..." or "We can only access certain medications at certian times of the day due to our medication safe only opening at certain times."<br /><br />Sometimes...bourbon works better than putting up with the aggravation... :-)LCBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03146393047895889252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-9456650944164635462013-12-17T16:26:15.085-05:002013-12-17T16:26:15.085-05:00The government is ultimately to blame. Walgreens a...The government is ultimately to blame. Walgreens and their ilk are just covering their own butts.Rob Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15604826633798229422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-50674775914134308052013-12-17T13:48:34.727-05:002013-12-17T13:48:34.727-05:00The people you want to blame for this are the Feds...The people you want to blame for this are the Feds. Well, and the pain med addicts who go doctor-shopping to get themselves multiple narcotics prescriptions.<br /><br />This started in Florida and appears to be going nationwide as the major drugstore chains attempt to protect themselves from federal litigation.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-66457221602577248262013-12-17T13:24:04.708-05:002013-12-17T13:24:04.708-05:00I blame the drug cartels, they are the only ones w...I blame the drug cartels, they are the only ones who stand to profit from such behavior. The illegal-drug cartels, that is. Not the illegal drug-cartels.Chuck Pergielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14473338620167201696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-31093848886636751752013-12-17T11:45:41.508-05:002013-12-17T11:45:41.508-05:00oops
This is probably law somewhereoops<br /> <br />This is probably <b>law</b> somewhereJohn Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801684602403824157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-24799449850356572872013-12-17T11:42:24.494-05:002013-12-17T11:42:24.494-05:00This is probably somewhere (Cali? NY?) and corpora...This is probably somewhere (Cali? NY?) and corporate HQ just made it policy nationally. <br /> <br />Isn't Meijer in the news for a policy that forced the firing of an employee for going outside to put out a car fire? I've encountered policies that are similar, but usually could be overridden by the [local] store management. And such can work the other way - when I worked at a chain department store a customer wanted to return a sweater bought fifteen years earlier! With the original sales slip and apparently never out of the wrapping (stuffed in a closet at Xmas and forgotten) it was allowed - silly or not.John Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801684602403824157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-76733666812400787512013-12-17T11:13:29.851-05:002013-12-17T11:13:29.851-05:00I can say good things about Meijer, for what it...I can say good things about Meijer, for what it's worth.<br /><br />MMark Algerhttp://www.babytrollblog.comnoreply@blogger.com