re: What's your take on prescription drug laws?

Do you ever think about the fact that all these people who are abusing pills are making it harder for the ones who need it to actually get it. Every Norco script I get and the patient has never been to me before, I am looking them up on the board. Its wasting my time as a pharmacist to look half of these abusers up only to see they just had it filled at another store. Makes me resentful. Pharmacist did not go to 6 yrs of school to be legal drug pushers. But thats where we are in this industry and its only getting alot worse.

Impossible. DEA and the state board would shut us down. I am just glad we have some monitoring. About 3-4 yrs ago, we had zero monitoring and had no idea what their history was. I had a guy today come in and tried to give me a story that he was early on his Norco script bc the pharmacist at the store he was getting it filled was stealing it. Junkie trying to get his xmas eve high.

I read this entire thread. Your perspective is more persuasive and based in both fact and common sense. I declare you the victor.

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Penicillin was discovered in 1928 and it is still effective against a lot of bugs today. So much for the dangers of super bugs.

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I'm literally agape at the terrible logic of this argument. "Not all bugs are superbugs yet, therefore superbugs aren't a danger."

And if you or anyone else want to accuse that of being a straw man I want you to explain how the first sentence in this "argument" could possibly be interpreted differently. Because the obvious implication is that until an antibiotic is totally ineffective against all bacteria, everywhere, you won't be convinced.

Which shows you don't understand mutation, epidemiology, or literally anything being discussed ITT

Like, the majority of staph isolated since the 1960s have produced penicillinase. Gonorrhea since the 1980s. Strep is mostly there now. But clearly since we can still use good old Penicillin V against shite like anthrax (which isn't prevalent enough to have ubiquitous resistance yet) this is all bullshite right?