DEA spokesman Rusty Payne told the National Pain Report. “If a pharmacy chooses not to fill a prescription for someone, that’s their decision. It’s not the DEA’s decision,” (1)
Payne went on to say, “There have been no new regulations. There have been no rule changes. There have been no changes in the Controlled Substances Act,” he reportedly said. “People will call us and they’ll say, ‘I can’t get my meds. And the pharmacy tells me that it’s your fault.’ It’s always popular to blame the government for something.” (1)
What Can We Do?
Write to your elected officials, tell them about the problems you have getting medications.
If they put quotas on heart medications, the uproar would be heard in Washington, but it's far to easy for pharmacist to write off pain patients as drug addicts, so no one cares.
Tell your representatives all prescriptions need to be electronically sent from the physicians office, direct to the pharmacy. This would stop prescription fraud, as well as medication mistakes because a pharmacist can't read the doctors writing.
We need a Pain Patient's Bill of Rights that set out patients rights and responsibilities, and protects physicians, and pharmacists who operate within the law.
If a pharmacist doesn't follow state or federal laws, if they treat you like a drug addict, rather than a patient in pain, file a complaint. This will only stop when we speak out, and let people know this is wrong.
If you know anyone who has commited suicide because of chronic pain, please contact me, leapspeaker@gmail.com
Sir William Blackstone said, "It's better that ten guilty persons excape, than that one innocent suffer.”
I say, It's better ten drug abusers excape with a couple pills, than one inocent patient suffer in pain.
DEA Spokesman Rusty Payne
(1) http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/content/tags/cardinal-health/dea-official-blames-pharmacists-doctors-pain-med-denials?page=full
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