I have a generous doctor who is willing to help his patients get the prescriptions they need. I introduced a friend to him to become a patient and now after the 2nd visit I think we may have an issue that could "rock the boat." Anyone with any insight please comment or if you just have an opinion it's appreciated.
We got our monthly scripts end of May and took them to Target/CVS in NJ where his office is. They filled mine, but didn't have enough to fill one of his (Adderall), so they gave him the script and we left with what we had. 3 days later he was in PA at g/f hours and he filled script at a Rite Aid there. Unbelievably, CVS calls him to say his script is ready, he goes there never thinking he's getting Adderall again, but yes they hand him a bag of Adderall for which he pays cash for. This is the end of May, like the 26th I believe. He had given the script to the PA pharmacy so we have no clue how this got filled.
Fast forward to now. We went to doctor for monthly appointment, got the same scripts and went to same CVS/Target where they told us they didn't have in stock and don't usually carry large amounts of high mg. Adderall. So we drove across the border to PA (where we live) and there's a CVS there known as "the crack house" because they stock all drugs, all strengths at all times. They fill mine, and when they give him his back its all there minus the Adderall. They tell him he's one day early (because he filled last month a few days after me). Next day, without me so I'm still confused by the details, he tried to fill it at a supermarket pharmacy. Well he got a super cop, pharmacist on the side type who wouldn't fill it. He calls the doctor who isn't in on a Saturday and says he's not filling AND he's holding it until doctor releases it. He says this pharmacist told him he filled 2 Adderall prescriptions previously, and mentioned the one in NJ.
Questions: how in the world would a supermarket pharmacist, on a Saturday, know about a prescription from over a month ago, in a different state? Unless something changed in recent months, it's a matter of documented record that there is no national or shared state database between NJ and PA. This is something you can check online and is argued about legislatively because neither state will pay for it.and since we are talking different pharmacy chains, it's not a corporate wide database that alerted him. And why if it was over a month ago did the original pharmacies this happened at not contact my friend, or the doctor writing the scripts? I don't think my buddy comitted a crime, he got a call to pick up something and picked it up--he didn't present a new or phoney script. I'm not sure what tact he should take because it almost sounds unbelievable that a pharmacist would give back a schedule II script and then days later, after it's been filled elsewhere, calls you back in and gives you a schedule II drug with no script!?!?!
Any thoughts or ideas how anyone else would handle this?
We got our monthly scripts end of May and took them to Target/CVS in NJ where his office is. They filled mine, but didn't have enough to fill one of his (Adderall), so they gave him the script and we left with what we had. 3 days later he was in PA at g/f hours and he filled script at a Rite Aid there. Unbelievably, CVS calls him to say his script is ready, he goes there never thinking he's getting Adderall again, but yes they hand him a bag of Adderall for which he pays cash for. This is the end of May, like the 26th I believe. He had given the script to the PA pharmacy so we have no clue how this got filled.
Fast forward to now. We went to doctor for monthly appointment, got the same scripts and went to same CVS/Target where they told us they didn't have in stock and don't usually carry large amounts of high mg. Adderall. So we drove across the border to PA (where we live) and there's a CVS there known as "the crack house" because they stock all drugs, all strengths at all times. They fill mine, and when they give him his back its all there minus the Adderall. They tell him he's one day early (because he filled last month a few days after me). Next day, without me so I'm still confused by the details, he tried to fill it at a supermarket pharmacy. Well he got a super cop, pharmacist on the side type who wouldn't fill it. He calls the doctor who isn't in on a Saturday and says he's not filling AND he's holding it until doctor releases it. He says this pharmacist told him he filled 2 Adderall prescriptions previously, and mentioned the one in NJ.
Questions: how in the world would a supermarket pharmacist, on a Saturday, know about a prescription from over a month ago, in a different state? Unless something changed in recent months, it's a matter of documented record that there is no national or shared state database between NJ and PA. This is something you can check online and is argued about legislatively because neither state will pay for it.and since we are talking different pharmacy chains, it's not a corporate wide database that alerted him. And why if it was over a month ago did the original pharmacies this happened at not contact my friend, or the doctor writing the scripts? I don't think my buddy comitted a crime, he got a call to pick up something and picked it up--he didn't present a new or phoney script. I'm not sure what tact he should take because it almost sounds unbelievable that a pharmacist would give back a schedule II script and then days later, after it's been filled elsewhere, calls you back in and gives you a schedule II drug with no script!?!?!
Any thoughts or ideas how anyone else would handle this?
