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This is the unintended consequence of making pharmacies liable for filling prescriptions to people who were addicted. Now the pharmacy says well, if we're liab

This is the unintended consequence of making pharmacies liable for filling prescriptions to people who were addicted. Now the pharmacy says well, if we're liable for drugs being misused even if they were legitimately prescribed, we're not going to fill the prescriptions unless we have some strong assurance that the providers wont give out "too many" prescriptions. We put more non-health bureaucrats between the patient and their treatment -- in this case, whether you get your drugs isn't about whether you need them, but whether the liability the pharmacy takes is higher or lower than the profit on the drugs.

worker_person 4y ago
I tried for three years to a prescription for Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). As all the support forums swear at how much better it was then plaquenil. But I could not find a doctor that had heard of it. Finally found an online pill factor, had a little back and forth with questions and concerns. Got my pills. Dramatic quality of life improvement. I could not get a single doctor to do 10 minutes of research on what the pill was.
- LorenPechtel 4y ago
  Unfortunately, the system simply doesn't support situations where the situation requires digging deeper. There's no billing code for digging into a complex issue or medical mystery, thus it basically doesn't happen.
robonerd 4y ago
> This is the unintended consequence of making pharmacies liable for filling prescriptions to people who were addicted. Indeed. CVS, Walgreens and other pharma companies recently settled a $860 million lawsuit with Florida for their role in the opioid epidemic. Florida alleged that CVS and others failed to heed warning signs and filled an unreasonable number of dodgy prescriptions. It seems CVS is taking things more seriously now. > The company distributed 2.2 million opioid tablets from its store in Hudson, a Tampa-area town of 12,000, and in one unidentified town of 3,000, sold 285,000 pills in a month, the lawsuit says. In some stores, its opioid sales jumped six-fold in two years. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-sues-walgreens-cvs-over-opioids_n_5bf1ab4ee4b07573881f714d https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-sues-walgreens-cvs-ov...

worker_person 4y ago

I tried for three years to a prescription for Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). As all the support forums swear at how much better it was then plaquenil. But I could not find a doctor that had heard of it. Finally found an online pill factor, had a little back and forth with questions and concerns. Got my pills. Dramatic quality of life improvement. I could not get a single doctor to do 10 minutes of research on what the pill was.

LorenPechtel 4y ago
Unfortunately, the system simply doesn't support situations where the situation requires digging deeper. There's no billing code for digging into a complex issue or medical mystery, thus it basically doesn't happen.

robonerd 4y ago

> This is the unintended consequence of making pharmacies liable for filling prescriptions to people who were addicted. Indeed. CVS, Walgreens and other pharma companies recently settled a $860 million lawsuit with Florida for their role in the opioid epidemic. Florida alleged that CVS and others failed to heed warning signs and filled an unreasonable number of dodgy prescriptions. It seems CVS is taking things more seriously now. > The company distributed 2.2 million opioid tablets from its store in Hudson, a Tampa-area town of 12,000, and in one unidentified town of 3,000, sold 285,000 pills in a month, the lawsuit says. In some stores, its opioid sales jumped six-fold in two years. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-sues-walgreens-cvs-over-opioids_n_5bf1ab4ee4b07573881f714d https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-sues-walgreens-cvs-ov...