K, so I see posts wayyyy to often where the OP is crying and miserable about the way their pharmacy treats them like shit and never is on top of making sure they have your meds available and/or ready for you come refill day.

If this is ever the case, you need to fire your pharmacy and find a better one. Usually, smaller mom+pop or smaller local chains will appreciate your business and help you ideally with these things without you even having to ask (or only requiring one-time orientation on what your preferences are as they relate to servics they usually do or should be offering:

  • fill your meds automatically without you having to ask

  • ensuring it is in stock without you having to worry in order for them to fill said refills

  • advise you of any complications or further steps required of you to help them make sure you’re taken care of and consistent with refills

  • remind YOU about shit, not the other way around. My pharmacy might as well be my unpaid intern/executive assistant with all things medical as they pertain to my business/the privelege of getting said business I grant them

  • delivery: this is non-negotiable. If they ain’t delivering, I ain’t playin’. My pharmacy knows that to be my drug dealer, they gotta come to me. Cuz I ain’t leaving the couch to get my drugs

  • deal with dr for you if any discrepancy or error is in the way. This is the beauty of medical practices with adjoining pharms. Ethics be damned, vertical/horizontal integration 4 the win!

That is all. Your pharmacy should feel so lucky to have a good get like AD(H)D patients, I would rather have that then a money printer if I was a pharmacy owner.

Spread the word and f all that noise. You are worthy to be waited on and catered to, controlled substance or otherwise.

Not sure if this is cogent but I take rhe 2nd rarest (prescribed/available) medication next to Desoxyn and I’ve never had an issue getting it filled, even in the depths of the Great Adderall Shortage although it wasn’t Adderall so not sure how relevant my n=1 is this context

  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In the US, the problem is whether your insurance works with a specific pharmacy or not. My parents go to Walgreens and their service is fairly awful - out of stock on some things, say they have our package and then can’t find it after a 45 minute wait, and the 45 minute waits in general. Seems they have no idea how to staff or predict busy times properly as sometimes you go in and there’s 1 person in line and 3 peple working, and other times, 15 people in line and 1 person working. I suggested they choose various other pharmacies but apparently they can’t due to insurance.

      • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        The US insurance system is one of the most ridiculous corporate bureaucracies and consumer ripoff scheme ever devised. It was amazing to see the blitz of corporate propaganda unleashed when the Obama admin was trying to reform it (Clintons tried, too) and the deluded people (Republicans, of course) were enraged and terrified at anything changing (I LIKE my plan!! and my favorite, “Keep the government away from my Medicare!”)

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        The system here is completely broken, unless you are a C level at a hospital or some major investor/exec level at a drug or medical equipment manufacturer. The system is working super well for them. For the rest of us though, the US system is the most costly in the world both on cost to tax payers, and personal costs. Medical debt is the number one reason for bankruptcy in the US and most of the people who file have medical insurance.