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[CouponQueen]

There are reasons for these laws and while you state you are not the target..it is for everybody so everybody is faced with the same inconveniences. They can't pick and choose.

I am surprised that if this is a new law your Pain Mgmt Office was not aware of this new requirement going into affect.

It also sounds like CVS is being very proactive and making it across the board.

I would use another pharmacy and explain to that Pharmacy as well as your Pain Team as you call them..why you used another Pharm.

Most states will not allow you five days early every month on a narcotic - other regular non narcotic drugs yes..

As for how you take your medication etc. You don't need to protest and explain to us..we are not questioning you.

It is a huge problem the abuse so unfortunately everybody is subjected to the same laws.

[151949]

On 10/7/2014 Cakers1 said:

On 10/7/2014 happy housewife said:

They MUST follow the laws in your state.They don't do these things to make you mad - they are constrained by the law. And the law is cracking down on pain clinics because of the abuses. I can absolutely guarantee you that if you get a 30 day Rx then they can not refill it until that day - and not one day early.

Not always true. I call in scripts up to 5 days ahead and can still get them without being held until the exact day. And that is at CVS.

Those aren't narcotics.

[GrettaGarbled]

OT- did anyone see This is Life with Lisa Ling? Utah has the highest rates of prescription pain medication abuse. More people die there from overdoses than car accidents. There is a huge underground for heroin to fill the need for people who have been cut off from their legal prescription medication.

The episode was fascinating and sad.

[CouponQueen]

This was headlining as soon as I typed in your state..so I would think your Pain Team would be well aware of this as well as yourself..and doesn't the Pharm's have this up? I found this on my first google search

When the Drug Enforcement Agency announced that hydrocodone combination products, or HCPs, would move from Schedule III to Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act, the 22-page rule allowed for pharmacies to recognize refills authorized on pre-October 6 prescriptions.

The rule states that those refills were to remain valid through April 8, 2015.

But in a clash between DEA intentions, state pharmacy laws, and insurance companies, we have learned that nearly all pharmacies will be requiring a new, written prescription for hydrocodone combination products tomorrow, regardless of whether you have refills remaining on a current prescription

[abbeythe 8th]

The law is the law.

The OP has a lot of problems with her doctors, their staffs and her prescriptions.

[gazelle77]

The new pain pill drug laws will make it much more difficult to obtain pain meds... Thank the abusers out there who use them for their addiction and not for real pain.....

[nun ya]

So you now have to get it filled the day it is written?

[ROMARY]

Gretta: OMGosh..........I hadn't any idea.......in Utah? Thanks for the info.

[goodstuff]

Certain categories of potent pain medications can't be called in. You have to present a paper script from your doctor. If state laws set limits on the dates/how long such scripts are good, your pharmacist must follow the law. You'll need to get a properly dated script from your doctor and be sure to present the script within the permitted dates next time.

[brii]

Maybe I'm missing something. If you follow the guidelines, there won't be any problem?