re: War on Prescription Drugs; Hydrocodone now schedule II

Yeah it's no less hard to hook friends up/stockpile if you were so inclined (I'm not, because as already established I take prescription medications VERY seriously). You'd just up your prescription and save the extras. You could be sitting on a 6-month stockpile within a year fairly easily.

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Doing some brief reading on prescription drugs of the sort, it sounds like we are just about the only country with as heavy of regulations.

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"The United States makes up only 4.6 percent of the world's population, but consumes 80 percent of its opioids -- and 99 percent of the world's hydrocodone."

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The only thing this type of regulations does is lead people to looking for alternate means... Whether its abusing other prescription drugs in an attempt to get the same affect or beginning to use illegal drugs.

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"Carolyn Alfieri, 41, from New York, suffered from chronic shoulder pain caused by years of playing the violin. When she was 26, she went to see a doctor who prescribed Vicodin. Over the years, she was given progressively more powerful pain relievers. She said she became so addicted that she was taking up to 75 pills a day. She said she eventually lost her teeth because of drug use. She said she she sold her violins and began forging prescriptions to feed her addiction.

"The progression happened very quickly," said Alferi. "It went from Tylenol with Codeine, to Vicodin, to Percocet, to the Oxycontin."

Seems like junkies are looking for alternatives without government intrusion.

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Technically, we are not supposed to do this. I have, but I also tell them if you lose it...tough shite. I cannot rewrite a script for a lost C2. Have had it happen and I warned them. I have to assume they had the shite filled somewhere.

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So wait a minute - you were just busting my balls over something, and now 5 messages later you post very clearly in a public forum that you are breaking a rule regarding dispersement of the same class C2 medications?

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So wait a minute - you were just busting my balls over something, and now 5 messages later you post very clearly in a public forum that you are breaking a rule regarding dispersement of the same class C2 medications?

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Nope. Had documentation and will no longer do it at all. This was over 6 years ago. Now one month at a time only.

I bet rush mad

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Technically, we are not supposed to do this. I have, but I also tell them if you lose it...tough shite. I cannot rewrite a script for a lost C2. Have had it happen and I warned them. I have to assume they had the shite filled somewhere.

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I was going by my experience for concerta, which is cII. Not for hydrocodone. From what I gather, Dr can't post date, ie put a future date on script 2 and 3, but the prescribed on date is the same for all, and a note is made on 2 and 3 that they can't be filled until 30 and 60 days out from the prescribed on date. IDK what the regs are... That is just how it has worked for me the past few years and yes if I lose one it will not be replaced.

Know someone who had scaffolding fall down on her neck at a Mardi Gras Ball.

She's been battling the pain for years.

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I have to go in physically every 30 days to pick it up.

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Can't your Doc just fax it into Pharmacy.

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"The United States makes up only 4.6 percent of the world's population, but consumes 80 percent of its opioids -- and 99 percent of the world's hydrocodone."

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Morphine/Codeine (opiates) are used more in foreign countries, while Vicodin and Percocet (opioids) are used more in America.

But they're the same shite, for the most part.