Originally Posted by
joyce blint
A afew yrs ago, after knee replacem't, I had a script "filled" for pain pills. Got home and happened to count them. I was only given 15 out of 20. I called the Pharmacy to report it. They did an inventory count that and said I had gotten the full Script. They made me feel like dirt for suggesting otherwise. I went to the store manager w no results and finally ended up writing corporate about it. I don't know if my letter did any good, But within the next yr there were big changes in the Pharmacy staffing and several long-time employees were no longer there.
Pharmacies are very sticky about pain meds. The only way they would have admitted the mistake was if you had never left and they saw for their own eyes the discrepancy. There are so many people that misuse pain scripts that they are very suspicious of everyone who gets a pain script filled, unless you are a long-time customer and they know you personally. Even then, they will give you a hard time. Its all about the drug addicts.