Comments on: CVS Pharmacies Will No Longer Fill Pain Prescriptions From Some Doctors

By: se

se — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:36:56 +0000

If you don’t have chronic pain, you have no right to voice any opinion about pain relieving medications. I suppose it would be much better for people in chronic pain from various conditions such as cancer, to just kill themselves and save everyone a lot of trouble. If tylenol worked don’t you think people would take them, it would save them alot of money and doctors visits. I hope you people develop chronic pain and have a pharmacy say, too bad, suffer. We would see how long you would live. I hope you can live with the death of people, who could live with medication and doctors care but would rather die than suffer through days of pain, when it hurts to move, evnen to go the bathroom.
throw out the baby with bathwater.

By: aCE

aCE — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:20:40 +0000

Bottom line DR’s prescribe pain medication as patient states thier pain level is on top of MRI’s and other factors before precsibing any pain medication. They also have lines of questiong to weed out seekers/addicts they do all they can. It’s not fair the people that do need it should suffer.

Not all Pain management DR’s over prescribe. Patients are ODing because they are NOT following the DR’s instruction when taking these drugs.

It’s not the Dr’s fault it’s the patients.

By: dally

dally — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:52:56 +0000

i think they should either stop making the drug all together or make it only legal in hospital and nursing homes ect . I have had two major back surgeries and most of the time I suffer in pain because I can not get my prescriptions filled. I am paying a medical insurance premium for a service i can not utilize. not fair! Hospitals are going to be over run with people in severe pain just because they can not get their prescriptions filled. I can sympathize with this pain killer explosion but will someone sympathize with my pain

By: MD450

MD450 — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:37:48 +0000

I have been on narcotics for many years due to being bucked off a horse. I am in severe pain and have gone through depression from coming to terms with having limited abilities. Those who abuse it make it hard for those who take it as prescribed. I am currently going to collega and about to graduate to go on to attain my doctorate in psychology. I made the Presidents likst last semester so I think each individual case is different. Its just sad when the ones that don’t abuse it ARE CATORIZED IN WITH THOSE WHO DO ABUSE IT!!! AND TRUST ME IT STINKS!!!

By: unknown

unknown — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:38:45 +0000

i think that is a very good idea. i think they should do away with ALL pain killers. I have seen too many people hooked on them where they couldn’t even get out of the bed. What did people do back in the day when they didn’t have pain killers?? And tylenol and Ibuprofen does help kill pain its just people are so used to the STRONG stuff that the little stuff don’t help anymore.

By: Delaine Brown

Delaine Brown — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:32:31 +0000

If you have a major problem you have to live with for the rest of your life;such as your back and your head,what are you suppose to do?’especially if you tried ibpurofen,tramedol,and other,although there are no history of drug use what type of painkiller is similar to lortab

By: rosie

rosie — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:21:13 +0000

I HOPE CVS GOES UNDER! THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO OVER A DOCTORS HEAD! SHAME ON THEM!

By: Just another victem

Just another victem — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:37:15 +0000

My wife has been prescribed oxycodone for severe back pain for several years. It took me over a year to develop a relationship with our local CVS pharmacy so that they were comfortable filling her prescriptions. Our doctor goes by the book and has never been investigated nor implicated in any kind of drug scandal. Perhaps you compassionate people who think that everyone who has a prescription for narcotic pain releivers is a junky, don’t realize that these prescriptions cannot be filled early, so that my wife can only receive her medication the day before she runs out. That did not prevent CVS from cutting us off without notice, leaving me to travel from pharmacy to pharmacy in a vain attempt to get her prescription filled before she went through withdrawal. Finally she had to go back to the doctor and get the prescription changed to a different narcotic, just as addicting but not as effective. Thank you CVS and thank you to all you self-righteous horses asses who have opinios but have no idea what is really going on here. Do you really think that this has anything to do with CVS protecting you? This is about ignorant knee-jerk reactions to media coverage driving politics as usual.

By: johnnyg

johnnyg — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:29:15 +0000

How is the public to know who the “bad” drs or “good” drs are. Why is the list so hush hush between cvs and the dea? Is it just a dart thrown at the phone book to determine if I can get my needed medications filled?

By: booger

booger — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:39:26 +0000

Once again, those of us who have legitimate medical reasons for taking these pain tablets are being punished along with the physicians who prescribe them.. Don’t the idiots at CVS, and those who think this is a good idea; know that the habitual drug seekers WILL GET the drugs they are looking for. It only causes problems for the ones who need these meds. We have to pay the price and go thru the inconvenience and suffering.