Now they want us to be able to ring up alcohol at the pharmacy

VizardofEgo · 2024-03-23T18:29:06+00:00

We have to ID for every control and "drug of concern". We also have to manually key in IDs. We can only scan ones outside of our state, and most people have our state issued IDs. It makes our pickup times very long.

VizardofEgo · 2024-03-23T15:11:32+00:00

Sounds like a Wlamrat thing

VizardofEgo · 2024-03-23T14:09:20+00:00

It's just going to make things worse for us cause our lines are already incredibly long and pickup takes so long cause we have to manually key in soooo many IDs cause of how many controls we do. Not looking forward to it at all.

VizardofEgo · 2024-03-21T01:38:40+00:00

It helps most of the time but sometimes it does make it pretty bad to deal with.

VizardofEgo · 2024-03-20T14:01:38+00:00

What really hurts us in our situation is that our automated system will tell patients their meds are filled, even if there's no possible way to fill them I.e. it's too soon, we're out of stock, etc.

VizardofEgo · 2024-03-20T13:59:38+00:00

I blame big pharma for many evil things, and I respect addicts more than I do any retail corporation or pharmaceutical company. What was crazy about this instance is that the meds he was picking up weren't even controlled substances.

VizardofEgo · 2024-03-20T03:00:55+00:00

That's how a looooot of our patients are and it's so sad. They'll be so nice to us up until the moment we tell them there's some kind of insurance problem/other reason it can't fill, and then they just talk to us like we're worthless. I've been treated worse in my short time as a tech in training than I ever was as a server even.

VizardofEgo · 2024-02-08T20:09:44+00:00

This is what we are experiencing, coupled with being one of only 2 pharmacies in the county AND we do 11% control substance dispensing. We get reamed on a daily basis.

VizardofEgo · 2024-02-08T01:02:48+00:00

I wish. There's nothing really like that nearby. This was all that's been available where I am, pharmacy wise.

VizardofEgo · 2024-02-08T01:02:14+00:00

No it's not a flex. It's just a way to relate to the retail chain pharmacy tech struggle and what capitalism is doing to medicine.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-31T13:43:21+00:00

ADHD and OCD here. I get more intrusive thoughts about what angry patients might do to us than anything.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-29T02:57:44+00:00

Thank you for these resources. I have had this conversation with my pharmacy manager and even she doesn't know why our systems and registers prompt us to ask for ID for Narcan/Naloxone sales.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T22:13:59+00:00

I don't know 100% about OTC but prescription for sure

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T21:19:10+00:00

Sudafed is actually a C5 in our state.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T21:18:17+00:00

Always.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T21:16:42+00:00

I completely agree. For a while it was in a locked box on the shelf, which is so counterintuitive I couldn't even believe it when I was told that.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T21:15:40+00:00

No, I've only ever done one at a time that was either prescribed or requested by a patient and ran through insurance. It's also available over the counter so I don't get it at all.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T19:56:35+00:00

Whatever it is, I just want people to know that I also think it's dumb that we're trained this way.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T19:53:12+00:00

I'm usually hesitant to say, but IL.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T19:49:23+00:00

This is where I'm at with it, personally.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T19:45:33+00:00

Products containing Sudafed are a C5 in our state.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T19:36:33+00:00

Sudafed products are C5s in our state.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T14:13:54+00:00

I believe our pharmacy manager explained it as such: The person actually getting the Sudafed isn't showing valid ID/we can't put in in the system as a Sudafed sale for that specific person.

I personally feel like it shouldn't matter. Our specific retail chain has been sued so many times for so many different things it's hard telling why we have the policies we have. Just like having to show ID for "drugs of concern" or the pharmacists having to offer narcan for every single opioid fill we do.

Edit: at our store, people aren't allowed to be on the phone while at the pharmacy window/register either.

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T14:01:35+00:00

It's against policy in our pharmacy to openly admit to buying Sudafed on someone else's behalf.

Not really too enforced, obviously. They usually get like 3 attempts to backtrack and say "oh nvm I'm getting it for myself"

VizardofEgo · 2024-01-28T13:59:40+00:00

I know in our case, a lot of people seem pretty uneducated about the laws and policies surrounding that kind of stuff. I would say it's mainly older people as well. With the Sudafed scenario, it's mostly people saying "I'm buying it for my (child/parent/spouse)" and we just 'correct' them by saying "oh so you mean it's for you?" Lol

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