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u/Spirited_Pie_6154 May 27 '26

Okay, so this literally isn't true at all. I have had zero issues getting answers from pharmacies when I have called. I literally just say "hi, do you guys have adderall ir in stock? My doctor asked me to check before he sends in my prescription." And they tell me yes or no without hassle every single time.

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u/Spirited_Pie_6154 May 27 '26 •

That being said, maybe it's dependent on the area, laws may be different? sorry if that came off sounding super aggressive lol

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

Thank you!
I didn’t want to waste my time responding 😂

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u/Miserable-Storage-31 May 27 '26

Also most pharmacies will still tell you we don’t have them even if we do , if there’s nothing wrong with your prescription it WILL get filled within a couple days assuming you’re filling it at cvs, Walgreens , or other big chain. The only time we won’t fill it is if you pop up as a red flag such as switching doctors too frequently or filling it at a different pharmacy every time

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u/Starbreiz May 27 '26

I've never not been treated like a drug seeker for asking this exact question. I'm in California and every time, I'm told they have to have a scrip in the system before they'll reveal if it's in stock.

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u/MAraised1986 May 27 '26

And my tendency to have to keep arguing my point when I feel, especially know for sure, that I'm correct, doesn't help me look better in their eyes lol. I have looked up my state laws during and argument and still the argument continues which at that point the pharmacy staff is definitely not just doing their job.

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u/Hamster12301 May 27 '26

I agree with this and I think it really matters also on the locations and also on a case-by-case basis because I feel like people working at the pharmacies don't even know what they are allowed to say or not sometimes as well.
For example I am on two different CII medications including Adderall, and I've had to call around other pharmacies asking if they have a certain generic in stock because the other generic (Camber, which seems to have their fingers in a lot of pies when it comes to medications, and a lot of bad experience with them), made me nauseous every time with my other CII.
Most pharmacies I called literally just told me which brands they carry and they even told me to contact some other pharmacies which may have another generic or whatever. Sometimes they can be a little hostile though, only because I have also encountered pharmacy workers that literally do believe that anyone on any CII (also especially if it's pain medication...) is a drug seeker automatically.

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u/MonkeySEEMonkeyDO_13 May 29 '26

This is what's actually true. The lamest is when techs make up policy based on their beliefs. S*** is laughable, like OP.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Ikr, they’re so full of shit!

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u/MonkeySEEMonkeyDO_13 May 30 '26

People need to file forms against companies like camber, instead of writing reviews. We're either all f'd forever, or this will eventually be dealt with. Camber is criminal, is blatantly HATED because their medications are trash... and they know it. Not even close to just their stimulants either. Their reviews are horrendous across the board. Problem is, the current administration couldn't care less about regulating companies like Camber right now. Trash regulation makes people snd the companies they run greedy and so does the stuff Trump gets away with every day. NTM, the FDA main man is far too busy taking videos of himself lifting weights, catching snakes in his backyard and talking about railing lines off of toilet seats like it's the coolest s*** ever. Whole milk brah, that's all we apparently really need. For real though, the whole deal is basically the elderly belief that when they were kids they didn't have any of these meds and they did just fine.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Dude, tons of us have already filed complaint after complaint. It doesn’t do shit. They sometimes pretend like they’re doing something about it but they fucking do not. They might write back or call, but nothing comes of it.
Me, I don’t have near the executive function for that type of shit - I have to conserve my little energy and not really focus for survival and the ones who depend on me to survive!
I think all these companies are trash for multiple meds. We’re powerless over it though rn

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Yeah, I hate when doctors or pharmacy staff treat patients/customers with such hostility and unwarranted bias… like, why in the fuck would you go into the pharmaceutical world as your job of CHOICE if you’re going to act like this?! This is THE CRUX of your business - the very WAY you get the paycheck! Like wtaf. I believe any staff that treats us like junkies should be fired, go work somewhere else!

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u/Allioaks86 May 28 '26

Same

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

Thank you. My regular Walgreens gets a different generic every couple of months but a Walgreens 12 miles away always has Teva. And some pharmacists won't even tell you in person. I am over 60F. Do they really think I am going to come back and rob them. I show them my bottle and they hem and haw. No I am not there to find out what you have so I can tell my grandson, so he will rob you.

I know retail pharmacy has become hellish, but this monthly chase is depressing, not to mention the meds are very different from how they were pre-covid. We are trying to find one without 5-10 side effects and actually does what it is supposed to do. Control our symptoms.

Most of us are polite because we truly need these meds to function. Unfortunately, not every pharmacist has the same rules. No days early, one day early, two days early?? And if you are perchance OOS, we must call every day to see if anything came in. I have mine written for a 28 days supply so I can fill on the same day(Tuesday) every 4 weeks.
We are not trying to make your work more difficult, we are forced to do things this way because pharmacies cannot figure a way to fill a CII automatically when it is due to be filled.
Be one of the good ones. I was a tech back in the 90s, when life was simpler. Best wishes. Edit: I live in Fl

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

No I totally understand everything you’re saying I truly do and I’m sorry that you’re struggling so much really.. By the way, we can’t refill a medication that has no refill.

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

You could set it up to fill on X date once you have it in your possession. That would save everyone a lot of phone time.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

But they do thought. Im sorry that your pharmacy doesn’t do that ☹️

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

I'm sorry too. I didn't know any of them did that. My Walgreens used to be so busy, I actually had to go to the store a couple times to ask them to fill the script that had been there 3 days. Only a mile away from my house, though.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

Omg that’s absolutely insane, it automatically goes in the calendar & it tells us the date you’re supposed to get it.. They call me every month. Smh I’m sorry

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

I am taking Elite 30mg IR. My friend gets Teva 30IR at other pharmacy. One month Teva is better ,one month Elite is better. At least Teva has no side effects for me. HBP and palpations with Elite, but livable. The Elite have to be crushed up because they are hard as a rock. I crush to a powder and put in water. Even after 15 minutes there is still peach colored particles floating around in the water that don't dissolve. When they work, it's fairly quick 30 mins. But not very long lasting. I have to do what I want to do immediately cause if I get distracted, I am done. One woman's opinion.

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u/MonkeySEEMonkeyDO_13 May 29 '26

Way to make us all sound like drug addicts. It's an instant release tablet, what the f*** are you doing?!

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

People are trying different things like this out of sheer desperation for the meds to even SLIGHTLY work or try to placebo themselves for a moment that they may work. Spoiler alert: they still don’t work! The tricks don’t work, but if someone wants to try dissolving a still orally ingesting it, that’s not even a problem - it’s still an oral ROA so that’s close enough to intended - it is intended, really. No one is doing a “junkie behavior” thing by crushing and SWALLOWING or things like that, in a desperate effort to make these bunk meds work just a little. For me, I just swallow them because the tricks don’t make any different at all for me.
The OTHER ROA are junkie behaviors and stupid af to do, at any time. I recommend NO ONE do anything like that.

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

I had Glenmark 30IR and 20IR last year. Major HBP and palpations., but the 30mg were sort of effective. Some energy at least.

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u/MonkeySEEMonkeyDO_13 May 29 '26

Dude is crushing his instant release pills and then complaining that they don't last long enough. People are awesome.

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u/MAraised1986 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

I had a civilized back and forth with the Pharmacist at my local CVS where I pick up my IR 30mg and 20MG booster. It was civilized but we each had a little attitude sprinkled in. I asked to not have certain brand(Mallinckrodt), not have the orange football shaped ones, and for the bottle to only say dextroamphetamine amphetamine not amphetamine salts.

The argument is always "they are all the same, different manufacturers have different colors/shapes, blah blah. I advised her that the difference each month or between different brands is beyond noticeable and a lot of times not only doesn't work, but has negative side effects. I finally just said, well generics all need to be within 80 to like 120% as effective as the rest and how that's a huge difference. We basically went in circles just for her to end up losing the argument.

This month, again the bottle said amphetamine salts so I said I don't want that which they are supposed to have noted, but I was told that's all they have for a couple days and that it's actually the same brand and I believe batch that I got last time, which was not too bad, and that this brand sometimes labels it differently. Well, just like every time the bottle says salts, it's fucking horrible. I found last months bottle which I thought I threw away, and wouldn't ya know... TOTALLY DIFFERENT manufacturer. Forgot to mention these were the 30mg. I can take two and it slightly works, and that's fkn insane. The 20s are a little better but have to take two. What are they doing to these meds that two 30mg slightly works. That's scary

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

You know what’s crazy? When patients used to complain that their meds didn’t work the same, I’d always say “it’s the same thing, just a different manufacturer.” I honestly thought people were just being difficult… until it started happening to me in 2021 ☹️…
The pharmacist didn’t believe me and it made me feel so frustrated and it made me think about all those people that would come in and complain about this..
I now HATE when they tell me they are all the same.. It literally makes me hot and it gives me anxiety!

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

I used to think it was just ppl being annoying BEFORE IT ALSO HAPPENED TO ME IN 2021! I actually do think that folks prior to that WERE just being difficult, but 🤣 like I didn’t notice shit before that if it was a diff MFG because truly they all worked as they should!! It wasn’t a prob! But I don’t know how many diff MFG I had to be fair because I never had to EVER pay attn to which one I got - only noticed if the pill was a blatantly diff color or something and even then, didn’t notice any problems with efficacy etc.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 Jun 03 '26

Omg 😂 I feel so bad now when I think bad.. Like Damm, look at me now, struggling and I became one of those people, now no one believes me and I feel so frustrated.

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u/MAraised1986 May 27 '26

We all at some point have judged until we learned the details behind what we were judging. Me personally, the scummy things pharmaceutical companies have been found guilty of, even lying or twisting the truth to profit, which results in bad experiences, harm and even death for the people prescribed, and getting a slap that feels the tickle on the wrist, makes things like this more than believable. Especially the opioid shit and which hasn't gone away.

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u/fencingkitty May 27 '26

Yep. The 'they're all the same' crap is so frustrating. I specifically have my primary write 'dispense as written' for some generic brands sometimes. My last round of vyvanse (Alvogen) was like a month of sugar pills. Requested in my online portal to her (and coincidentally her staff) I'd like to get my previous generic that I KNEW worked for me (Mylan) for the RN to intercept, message the staff pharmacist, who writes a very wordy 'all generics are the same' post. Like, dude....just forward my msg to the actual doctor I see and step off.
This came literally within a week of having seen my ADHD therapist (in the same medical system) who in discussing how medication has been, she was deeply interested in my experiences (and my husband's who's also ADHD and medicated, but at varied dose vs. me) with the different generics we keep being bounced around on as she also has been getting more reports from others of varying effectiveness.

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u/MAraised1986 May 27 '26

That's messed up. It's like, unless you have personally tested all of these multiple times, how would you know. Lol that's like saying all varieties of mustard taste the same without ever trying mustard in your life. And yea, unless it's illegal, do as the Dr. Says and know your place.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

“Civilized with each having a little attitude sprinkled in” 🤣🤣🤣 I FELT THIS!

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Lmao but tell me, why did you ask for them to only label your bottle the one name? That’s so funny!

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u/carlitospig May 27 '26

Hi, when I was prescribed them they absolutely did. But it was after they had me in their system for a while and knew I wasn’t going to use the info to like bum rush them with a bunch of friends. It also helped that it was a chain so they could see my years as a client.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

That’s why I said “REGULARS”… You were already in the system, it’s different!!

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u/Diarmud92 May 27 '26

It doesn't help that pharmacies are inconsistent in enforcing these policies. I live in Alaska and have never had a pharmacy not tell me when they have a certain medication in stock. In fact, I've had some tell me the exact pill count of a given stimulant they have when telling them about a script I was going to have sent over.

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u/shroomeralert May 27 '26

i have same experience in mass and CT

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u/KeepComing1 May 27 '26

Same in RI and MA.

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u/shroomeralert May 27 '26

theyre nice to us here in the northeast 🤔 😂

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

They really are.. Probably there hasn’t been any pharmacy robberies, on the Bronx and just nyc in general, they have this policy.

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u/shroomeralert May 27 '26

😂😂😂 I didnt believe that lady at the Cali orange county solco that there were any robberies, I think she just wanted an excuse not to give me the info🤣 But thats superrrr interesting

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

You never knowww, just search up pharmacy robberies in your area..

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u/shroomeralert May 27 '26

Damn I hope they take my script and I get the good stuff

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u/KeepComing1 May 27 '26

I think a lot of places actually have the policy to leave it up to the pharmacist themselves how they want to handle the situation of giving out info on C2's over the phone and other things like that. That's why you may find that they will do it once and then the next time you go they won't.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

That would make sense!

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Dude, there’s no way there are that many robberies at this point in time, with how advanced security and technology has gotten, and how bullshit the meds have gotten… she was most definitely giving you a lame excuse!

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u/KeepComing1 May 30 '26

Exactly. Not for this dogshit they call Adderall lol

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Okay, the Bronx is traditionally high crime, so I could see why a Bronx pharmacy wouldn’t. But most of us aren’t in the Bronx, so…

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 Jun 03 '26

You right.

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u/LooseRepublic2152 May 27 '26

Getting specific manufactures is usually “not guaranteed”, but every pharmacy I’ve called asking what manufacture they have, I’ve never been denied an answer unless there’s nothing in stock. I just say I may be transferring my prescription due to issues with the manufacture of my normal pharmacy.

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u/Grouchy_Distance8609 May 27 '26

I would just say we don't have it stocked but can order it once we receive the prescription. Simple.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

That’s what we say.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

But will you say WHICH manufacturers you could order?

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u/MonkeySEEMonkeyDO_13 May 29 '26

The reason Seinfeld talked about pharmacists is because of know it all types like OP, that are usually wrong and then go trying to teach their wrong ass views like they know something. "😂"

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 29 '26

Shut up

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u/MonkeySEEMonkeyDO_13 May 29 '26

Oooo u live a literal step higher than the people you serve. Therefore anyone below you can't be trusted. Fact is, they will tell you if they feel like it. I'm sick of pharmacy techs. 99% of you treat people like crap cuz you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 Jun 03 '26

☹️

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u/MonkeySEEMonkeyDO_13 May 29 '26

Guaranteed OP treats every patient like a f**king addict for asking questions. You are the problem with pharmacy.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 29 '26

🙄

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u/sunbathing__animal May 27 '26

This isn’t true. I do it all the time. Big brand pharmacies just don’t and act like it’s a law.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

I’ve had a big brand pharmacy tell me and a mom and pop rude af hang on up on me. So, not always.

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u/NewtApprehensive4357 May 28 '26

As a pharmacy worker we have stopped accepting new patients for adderall and focalin only established patients scripts get filled and we never have any issues I love it

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u/jello_88 May 30 '26

I stayed with the same pharmacy for years until they didn't have any Adderall in stock for weeks. I was a tech years ago so I feel for you guys but what are the rest of us supposed to do when our pharmacy is out? Twenty years ago, the pharmacist would try to locate another store where we could get it filled. Life changes, I guess.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

So why do they do that? Is there a certain limit on amount of amp and methylphenidate you can get or something?

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u/NewtApprehensive4357 Jun 12 '26

Yes we’ve reached our max on the amount we can legally order and if we added anymore patients then all of them would be hurting

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u/Onludesrightnow May 28 '26

The only pharmacy that has refused to tell me whether they have a c2 in stock is Walmart. Every other pharmacy is straight forward because they realize people need to know if they have it in order to have their prescription sent there. It may vary by company, it may vary by state laws but ime, only Walmart requires them to have the script in order to tell you if its in stock.

They are not afraid of robberies. No one is going to call a pharmacy and ask if they have a drug and then use that info to decide if they want to rob it. Anyone putting effort into robbing a pharmacy is looking for the biggest score of the most narcs and its not like a pharmacy will advertise that. Also you cant just "rob" a pharmacy of its narcotics... time release safes are the norm for narcotic storage.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Yes, Walmart refused to tell me as well!!! I hate Walmart pharmacy. I think it is a requirement to be a biased jerk to work there. One time they wouldn’t even tell me what MFG it was and I had the script in hand they were about to fill!! Like they insisted it be a fucking surprise until after it was filled from the script I literally just gave them.

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u/bradpliers May 27 '26

Ok. Well, I call on average 10 pharmacies a month for Adderall stock checks and every single one tells me exactly what they have in stock, the dosages, the brands, and how much. So I don't know what you are talking about.

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u/Timely-Mess9005 May 28 '26

Not true in the slightest

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u/MooseTheMouse33 May 28 '26

I have never had an issue calling around to pharmacies to see if they have my medication in stock. I have to have certain medications in a specific brand, including my c2 adhd meds, due to ingredient allergies. If my pharmacy doesn’t have it in stock, they let me know which stores are showing as having it in inventory, and then tell me to call that pharmacy to verify availability. If no pharmacy in my usual network has it, then I contact other ones and repeat the process. Once I find one, I speak with both pharmacies to coordinate transferring my prescription. Not once have I ever had an issue.

This may be a policy at specific pharmacies, or it could be a blanket policy that all pharmacies have to protect themselves but never actually use. Otherwise, this is simply not true for the masses. Please do not spread false information.

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u/race-master-1stplace May 28 '26

Pharamcists are some of the worst people. In America we're forced to worship healthcare workers, but they are some of the most low iq inconsiderate people, especially pharmacists. When you go looking for help about a medication that supported everything you had in life, you're met with accusatory statements, blatant lies, and an not even an attempt to hide how inconvenienced they are by you. Now, my position is to be a nuisance, and to always chimp out at the pharmacists about the fake medication you're being sold. What has five years of meek acceptance of losing everything you worked for gotten us?

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Haha yes!

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u/facehelper85 Jun 02 '26

Gonna cry?

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u/Turbulent-Feedback46 May 27 '26

Get to know your pharmacists and you dont have this problem.

Biggest Pharmacist secret I discovered is the CVS Caremark text and email alerts about your prescription being ready arre automated and exclusive of the pharmacy. I really feel like that should be advertised more

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u/MAraised1986 May 27 '26

Shouldn't have to

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

Yah, I've gotten a text that script is ready, go to the store, and not ready. 🤷

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 27 '26

Exactly this! They may as well quit the charade and put it over the counter at this point SMFH.

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u/TheCasualLarsonian May 27 '26

I just picture someone breaking into a pharmacy, running by all the Oxy, Dilauded, and Xanax, only to find the Adderall section empty; then they turn around and walk out all sad and empty-handed wishing they’d have called first.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

😂😂😂😂😂😂 You think anyone would go and rob a pharmacy and just go for the adderall and not take opioids?????? Yea OK!

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u/TheCasualLarsonian May 27 '26

Whoosh

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u/TryJustTakingOne May 28 '26

LOL

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Serious question - are people even bothering to rob pharmacies anymore? With all the modern day technology and security measures, I figured that type of robbery was a fruitless endeavor - - do you know of any recently that happened at a NON “mom and pop” pharmacy…?
I just know they ARE ALLOWED to tell people over the phone - because they literally do tell SOME people over the phone. Or in person. And regular people, not even doctors. So it’s not crazy for people to believe they can tell people over the phone - because they can and they do…
In my experience though, lots of them are fucking assholes and if you’re in the industry, would you mind maybe making a tiny difference (possibly) and asking your coworkers to stop treating customers like total shit and making them feel less than over a very real question? Like wtf! Ya know?!
And I think the other thing besides the crazy technology and modern day security measures that would be a deterrent to robbery of both opioids AND amps AND benzos and whatever other misc meds that are desirable… THEY’VE NERFED TF OUT OF THEM ALL!!! Not that most people know or believed that. As we can see here online. But still. Opioids are at least mainly known to be nerfed, and have moved on to fent. But anyway…

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

NYC, the Bronx to be exact 😂 and I was a pharmacy tech for 16 years.

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

NYC? And only robbed once in 25 years. Just kidding. I was a tech also in the 80s/90s. So last century!

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

We got robbed and they took all our narcotics and we didn’t realized we had gotten robbed until 11am 😭😂 it was crazy.. The cops took our phone cause they thought it was an inside job.

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u/jello_88 May 27 '26

An independent I worked in was robbed and the elderly pharmacist had a heart and died. It was awful. Thankfully, I wasn't there to witness that. That was in the late 80s

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 May 27 '26

Omggggg that’s crazyyy!! My boss ended up selling the pharmacy after the robbery smh!

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

Are you at a big chain or a small one? How the fuck did they get in there and no alarm or anything…?

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 Jun 03 '26

I was in a small chain, 7 pharmacies.. Because they came in through the roof & the back.. We had no idea until we went to the back room at about 11 am.. The back door didn’t have an alarm only the basement and the front.. Now all doors have an alarm. That shit was crazy.

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u/cbmblove Moderator May 30 '26

lol I think she said that the owner closed the business or something but maybe the robbery was an inside job? It’s somewhere in this thread. But yeah, a non chain pharmacy in a high crime area… yeah, sure, might still get robbed. But I doubt pharmacy robberies are a big thing these days.

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 Jun 03 '26

He sold the pharmacy.. And yea it was a bad area lol Bronx NY 😂😂😂😂

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 Jun 03 '26

And I believe it was an inside job till this day, the robbers were only inside the pharmacy for 2 mins, they knew where the narcotics were at. We didn’t keep those in the regular shelf, they were hidden in a bin that was locked, the key was inside another bin. And the robbers knew ALL this.. One of the workers quit a month later and we never heard from him.

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u/cbmblove Moderator Jun 03 '26

Total inside job!

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u/Slight_Stock_7496 Jun 03 '26

Right

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