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Posted 12/5/2011 2:50 PM (GMT 0)
This is Joy47, I called my doctor on a Friday for Xanax, I got a script last month, it was called in and I picked it up. Well I called in another script for this month. I was told they can't call it in that there is a new law it has to be a written script that I have to pick up. It"s not something I take very often but I thought it strange that within a month there is a new law. I live in Florida. Has anyone herd of such a thing? It just seems strange. I started having some problems when that happens I order the Xanax. I probably won't order anymore for a long time. But it just seemed weird. Thank-you:)


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Post Edited By Moderator (Roni) : 12/5/2011 11:29:07 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 12/5/2011 3:15 PM (GMT 0)
Since you live in Florida do you think it may have something to do with this recent headline? I wouldn't think it applies to Xanax but who knows.

www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/us/01drugs.html?pagewanted=all
Florida has long been the nation’s center of the illegal sale of prescription drugs: Doctors here bought 89 percent of all the Oxycodone sold in the country last year. At its peak, so many out-of-staters flocked to Florida to buy drugs at more than 1,000 pain clinics that the state earned the nickname “Oxy Express.”

But with the help of tougher laws, officials have moved aggressively this year to shut down so-called pill mills and disrupt the pipeline that moves the drugs north. In the past year, more than 400 clinics were either shut down or closed their doors.

New laws are also cutting off distribution. As of July, Florida doctors are barred, with a few exceptions, from dispensing narcotics and addictive medicines in their offices or clinics. As a result, doctors’ purchases of Oxycodone, which reached 32.2 million doses in the first six months of 2010, fell by 97 percent in the same period this year. The ban was phased in beginning last October, with a limit on the number of pills a doctor could dispense.
Posted 12/5/2011 4:06 PM (GMT 0)
I have to get a written prescription for my daughter's ADHD meds. I live in TX.
Posted 12/6/2011 1:16 AM (GMT 0)
I found out from my pharmacist That for Xanax there is no law. It"s just my doctor's office. I don't take pain pills unless I'm in the hospital usually, I've been very blessed as late. As far as Xanax I think the last time I actually took them , with the exception of last month and this month, was a year ago. Its not a pain clinic. And they called it in last month so that's what was confusing me. I most likely won't take anymore after these run out. I just know my body and I know when I need something. It made me feel funny. But I am glad that they do monitor it.
Posted 12/6/2011 4:05 AM (GMT 0)
i think all trust/faith in patients has been lost in FL
Posted 12/6/2011 2:16 PM (GMT 0)
Your most likely right. Drug abuse here unfortunately is terrible :(
Posted 12/6/2011 10:47 PM (GMT 0)
Certain classes of drugs cannot be called in. At least that's how it is in TN. I know certain medications, my doc can fill/refill online or by fax, even if I'm in their office. Others, they have to hand-write, hand to me and I have to hand it to the pharmacist. Maybe xanax is in one of those classes. Or just got moved to that class within the last month?
Posted 12/7/2011 12:42 AM (GMT 0)
Thank-you
Posted 12/7/2011 12:56 AM (GMT 0)
I live in Florida and about 2 weeks ago I got my prescription for Imuran called in so maybe it's the specific medication you want. Last year I was prescribed Percocet and for that one I did have to go to the doctor to pick it up.
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