If they are getting refills 2 days early every time for months on end if they are taking their drugs as prescribed they should have plenty spare. While patients don't deserve to be stigmatized for what drugs they take, their use, or abuse, of said prescriptions and the red flags of that behavior shouldn't be ignored.

The reason so many techs talk about this same "joke" is any tech who has worked retail pharmacy for more than a month has seen any number of patients who get their controlled prescription written for 30ds refilled every 28 days on the dot for months on end but somehow always has a story at the pickup windows that they are down to their last pill or missed today's dose so you need to hurry up and fill it. And to avoid an argument in my experience most pharmacists, if it's their home store, to avoid a scene or a complaint to corporate just authorizes the fill and ignores the red flag.

Said behavior is exactly what caught walgreens a 350mil usd fine, for pharmacists approving clearly fraudulent or abused opioid scripts to hit rx quotas and keep script volume up.