From my personal experience, CVS has a problem with their prescription database or UI that makes it highly likely that they'll screw something up when using their prescription computers.
I don't know whether the whole system is outsourced by a provider who doesn't give a crap, or perhaps CVS has an inhouse IT team that's completely ignorant, but the same kind of thing has happened to me. Second CAREMARK account created internally that won't go away, prescriptions with address of someone else with same surname who lives in town, claims that they can't fill a prescription because my insurance plan won't approve it (how does CASH sound to you?), etc...

//lucky, I guess, not to have been arrested at my local CVS

CVS Caremark decided to ignore my CVS Caremark insurance recently and to charge me full retail price + 20% for a prescription I was having filled at a CVS store. They also refused to send me an insurance card for 6 months while they were 'verifying' coverage....with CVS Caremark. CVS also likes to fill prescriptions however they like - eg if you have 3x90 refills they fill each one for 30 days and then charge you full retail after 90 days thereby attempting to get triple reimbursement.

CVS Caremark has already settled two lawsuits with the US Dept of Justice in the past year for price gouging and price fixing. They are the kind of company you see in movies made from John Grisham novels. If they could literally send someone to your house to rape and kill you, they would.

Hunter_S_Thompson: Loren: logistic: Staffist: I will never fill another prescription with CVS.

Seconded, with an exception - I'm going to avoid them until the company publicly apologizes and makes major changes to its policies forcing pharmacists to actually speak with the signing practitioner before being allowed to notify authorities.

Until then, CVS can suck it.

From the article:

Benton thinks the pharmacy may have called the wrong physician.

Simple human error. They tried to verify it, got back a "who is that?" and called the cops. Wrong and she deserves compensation but it's no reason to blame the whole chain.

serial_crusher: Why sue CVS instead of the Dallas Police? Sure, CVS screwed up by calling the wrong doctor or whatever, but didn't the Dallas PD screw up even more by arresting the lady without checking up on their facts? Especially when she can rolling in looking like she'd fallen off a waterfall in Haiti.

I doubt the cops know enough about how the system works to independently verify it. They took the word of the pharmacist.

If the cops don't know enough about how the system works, they sure as hell shouldn't have the authority to take someone to jail for it. Will the police take my "word" that someone is trying to commit fraud and throw them in jail, or would they do their own investigation first?

I would hope the latter. But then again in the United Police States of America, you go to jail first an then an investigation is done. Innocent until proven guilty? Only for the rich, powerful, or otherwise connected. And until enough people start suing the pants of of the entire chain of pig lovers, nothing will change. I hope they all end up in bankruptcy court or jail for a very long time.

A pharmacist is a little different than some random person claiming fraud, they go through years of training and usually have a relationship with these doctors. The pharmacist seems over zealous to call people pill heads though, probably like a doctor I used to have who would always tell me that "I'm not in pain"....... Ummm, its my shoulder so I know when I'm in pain or not douchebag, filed a complaint on him after it was discovered my rotator cuff was torn.

doglover: serial_crusher: Why sue CVS instead of the Dallas Police? Sure, CVS screwed up by calling the wrong doctor or whatever, but didn't the Dallas PD screw up even more by arresting the lady without checking up on their facts? Especially when she can rolling in looking like she'd fallen off a waterfall in Haiti.

Actually, a disguise would be great if you wanted to get fake drugs, so every junkie probably does it. Neck brace, crutch, what have you.

Yeah, but try putting in a PICC line on your own and tell me how it goes.

I had one when I was recently in the hospital because of a pleural effusion. They needed a fluoroscope to install it, 18 inches of IV line into my arm and up my vein so the end was almost at my heart.

Even a regular IV line takes skill to put in, and basic care. A junkie's gonna end up with a nasty infection in a hurry.

/Happen to be on Norco
//not bad stuff, be a lot rougher of a recovery without it.
///My ribs hurt from my surgery, but I don't want to even imagine re-constructive knee surgery without anesthetic.

AbbeySomeone: D_Evans45: MythDragon: CSB:

Apparently it is illegal to put oregeno in a baggie and try and sell it as weed. Even though it is perfectly fine to sell baggies of oregeno on the street corner, the second you call it weed, you have committed a crime. Even though it's not.

Who would have thought ripping off potheads would be a crime. Stupid, yes, but a crime?

Where the hell is it perfectly fine to stand out on the corner and sell bags of oregano? Well unless you have a big stand or something, looking like a legitimate business stand.

You'd have to be an idiot not to realize what a cop would think if he found a bunch of bags of unlabeled shaky green plant matter in your pocket, standing around on the corner. Even if its oregano, you cant be selling little baggies of it out of your pocket, they get crack dealers peddling "dummy rocks" (fake product) all the time.In my city standing on the corner selling baggies of green anything out of your pocket is going to get you harassed, arrested, or incarcerated by cops, or shot by the local gang members whod think you were trying to sell drugs on their turf.

Why would anyone do this? Bagging up oregano and trying to pass it off as pot should get you arrested for fraud and being a dumbass.

At the least you should get arrested for selling goods without a business license.

This seems to be the way of it now days, arrest first and investigate later if at all. The war on drugs is starting to resemble the movie Brazil. Everyone is doing their part without the slightest concern if they are wrong or right.

mcreadyblue: Kudos to the Dallas PD for taking another dangerous criminal off the streets!

Now if they would only start patrolling Oakcliff after dark and catch the real drug dealers.

FTFY

Saberus Terras: doglover: serial_crusher: Why sue CVS instead of the Dallas Police? Sure, CVS screwed up by calling the wrong doctor or whatever, but didn't the Dallas PD screw up even more by arresting the lady without checking up on their facts? Especially when she can rolling in looking like she'd fallen off a waterfall in Haiti.

Actually, a disguise would be great if you wanted to get fake drugs, so every junkie probably does it. Neck brace, crutch, what have you.

Yeah, but try putting in a PICC line on your own and tell me how it goes.

I had one when I was recently in the hospital because of a pleural effusion. They needed a fluoroscope to install it, 18 inches of IV line into my arm and up my vein so the end was almost at my heart.

Even a regular IV line takes skill to put in, and basic care. A junkie's gonna end up with a nasty infection in a hurry.

/Happen to be on Norco
//not bad stuff, be a lot rougher of a recovery without it.
///My ribs hurt from my surgery, but I don't want to even imagine re-constructive knee surgery without anesthetic.

Yeah!!!! If she's tough enough to withstand knee surgery without anesthesia she's doesn't need pain meds!!!!

steamingpile: Yeah!!!! If she's tough enough to withstand knee surgery without anesthesia she's doesn't need pain meds!!!!

Yeah... I don't think it was a situation that she was 'tough enough', rather a 'strap her down and stuff a rag in her mouth so she doesn't scream so loud while I work' situation.

/The latter could be taken in so many ways...

Fark CVS and Walgreen's. Those mega pharmacies are a total pain in the ass with complicated prescriptions.

My wife needed high doses of Oxy for back issues for a few years (80mg a day). When we started off at a big place they were constantly confused, never had it in stock, and acted like we were trying to get Hitler's brain wrapped in UFO secrets out of Fort Knox.

We went to a small local pharmacy and never had a problem getting it because they knew who we were and really looked out for us, since such an unusual medicine was a special order for them. They actually cared that a single missed dose would put my wife in the hospital for withdrawal.

Their care even extended to harassing the drug company for a missed delivery to the point the VP of sales got on a plane and hand-delivered the medicine. The pharmacy made it clear they would help us sue them if my wife missed a dose. I seriously doubt CVS or Walgreen's would even give a shiat.

he rather policingly escorted me
Policingly? Policingly. Policingly?! What the hell does that word even mean? Are we sure she wasn't arrested for making up words?

Can someone explain to me why we are basing our society around the less then 1% of people that are drug addicts? Why did the rest of us sign off on this?

/ drug addicts are a self correcting problem
// so we can kill a drug addict once they kill someone else, but we can't just let them kill themselves?

quoinguy: Fark CVS and Walgreen's.

Same here. I didn't have insurance when I was recently hospitalized, and so my Norco was quoted at $80, after their "discount card" was applied. When I went back later with a prescription discount card I got free with a RushCard that I had gotten moths ago.... $20 Discount my farking ass. And we spent $35 just to get Walgreen's 'discount' card.

And both of them seem to have only one competent, well-knowledged, and helpful pharmacist or pharmacy tech. If you don't have that one being, you have the dimmest, douche-ist dickhead telling you nine different things and every one of them as wrong as pickle relish on waffles.

stuhayes2010: But the doctor never makes a mistake...

Quite right, it was the pharmacist that went all Zimmerman on this poor lady.

/can we make Zimmerman the go to phrase for overzealous do-"good"-ers?
//as in make it a verb.

Why is it that people continue to vote for pro-drug war politicians?
Stop doing that!
Blue collar, white collar, whatever collar you wear. Quit voteing for rich cock-suckers who don't give a shiat about us. Quit voteing for people who want to continue an expensive domestic war on our own people.
Otherwise this kind of ignorant shiat will continue for more generations.

Banacek: Can someone explain to me why we are basing our society around the less then 1% of people that are drug addicts? Why did the rest of us sign off on this?

because we are afraid of teh negroes.

Barbecue Bob: Why is it that people continue to vote for pro-drug war politicians?
Stop doing that!
Blue collar, white collar, whatever collar you wear. Quit voteing for rich cock-suckers who don't give a shiat about us. Quit voteing for people who want to continue an expensive domestic war on our own people.
Otherwise this kind of ignorant shiat will continue for more generations.

The war on our own people is perpetuated by the entire pigchain, from cops, to judges, to bailiffs, lawyers, schools/teachers, the guy who cuts the grass at the courthouse, the guy who repairs the police cars, Wal-Prisons and their stockholdes (absolutely sickening), guards, wardens, DEA agents, FBI Agents, TSA thugs, the secret homeland security Stasi ("infraguard" and "see something say something" wannabes), and their families, friends, children, the people who cut THEIR grass, the people who fix THEIR cars, and on down the line. There are so many people who get rich off the taxpayer dime under the thinly veiled guise of "law-enforcement" and those who think they have a little power because they are on the side of the (ahem, *clears throat*) "good-guys" that it would seriously take a lot more than voting the bastards out to stop it.

It's a pig-gravy-train, and all of the people in the aforementioned groups, and I'm sure I left a bunch out, have a vested interest to make sure as many people are criminals as humanly possible. It's not bad enough that we have the highest, by far, rate of incarceration already in this country, these people won't stop until we make Iran look like a pretty decent place.

For perspective, here are how other freedom-loving countries like the U.S. rank in the list of per-capita incarceration rate: Russia (#5), Iran (#26), Libya (#63), Saudi Arabia (#88), China (#121), Iraq (#144), Egypt (#162), and Pakistan (#205). But hey, USA! USA! USA! fark Yeah! We're #1!!!!!

Ummmmm. . . No. Police reports aren't privileged. They are public information.

ZAZ: The article gave some irrelevant stuff about how she's a wonderful person even though she's apparently addicted to narcotics, but omits more relevant parts like a description of the job/employer she can't go back to as long as HR thinks she might be a criminal. (Yoga isn't a job, is it?)

"As this involves pending litigation, we are unable to provide additional comments at this time."

Isn't CVS immune from suit because police reports are privileged? I don't object to giving the pharmacist a good kneecapping, but I don't think it's legally allowed.

This pharmacist should lose his/her license.

Rush Limbaugh:

See! That is why I was doing it illegally, they will get you either way!



/amidoinitrite?



Anyway, fark the pharmacy. They obviously have a telephone since they called both the victim and the police. Idiots.

cman: Staffist: I will never fill another prescription with CVS.

One pharmacist screwed up so you are gonna boycott the whole chain? Either you are a)subby trying to get more clicks for his link, b)high off of sniffing glue, C:\>, or d)trollin

Do you work hard at being the most ignorant troll here, or does it just come naturally to you?

Pharmacists are some of the most of the over-paid, overly self important professions I know. Why does the pharmacist get all up in my grill every time I get a prescription?... I've ALREADY talked to the DOCTOR about all this stuff, I don't care that you can read what it says right on the bag, just hand it over-like a good drive through employee. The Obama admin has really been cracking down nationwide on the controlled substances. So Sometimes I have to wait and stuff for adderrall. Everytime I go in the drive through lady gasps "zomg Have you taken this before do you know what this is?!?", so I've come to just answer "just check the computer" every time so I don't have to do 20 questions with some drive through worker that wants to play "Doctor"

I've seen it get works since 09 and this doesn't surprise me at all. I don't care that people are "abusing" them, that's their right and they probably should.

Why's she complaining? She's going to become a millionaire now
lucky bat

logistic: Staffist: I will never fill another prescription with CVS.

Seconded, with an exception - I'm going to avoid them until the company publicly apologizes and makes major changes to its policies forcing pharmacists to actually speak with the signing practitioner before being allowed to notify authorities.

Until then, CVS can suck it.

They have now twice shorted me on my needed but has street value Rx.

I caught it both times but fool me once, etc. First time was obvious (30 instead of 60). Second only 5 were missing. If I hadn't started counting the second I got it...

Knowing my doctor or RN can screw up the DEA # and I can get Kaftaed, well, that's it. If they're the only place in town with it in stock I'll go one town over.

/wish the one local pharmacy could keep it in stock for me

cman: One pharmacist screwed up so you are gonna boycott the whole chain? Either you are a)subby trying to get more clicks for his link, b)high off of sniffing glue, C:\>, or d)trollin

Pharmacists belong to the groups of people in this world that can't afford any screw ups. Put the wrong pill in the bottle and someone dies. Make a compound or IV with the wrong ratio and someone dies. Misread a number and an innocent person goes to jail. The ones that are less than perfect deserve to be fired immediately.

doglover: serial_crusher: Why sue CVS instead of the Dallas Police? Sure, CVS screwed up by calling the wrong doctor or whatever, but didn't the Dallas PD screw up even more by arresting the lady without checking up on their facts? Especially when she can rolling in looking like she'd fallen off a waterfall in Haiti.

Actually, a disguise would be great if you wanted to get fake drugs, so every junkie probably does it. Neck brace, crutch, what have you.

Probably even works for obtaining real drugs too.

But seriously, she was injured and is bandaged up. It would not be difficult to check up on that crap. It would be one phone call to the hospital/doctor.

So the police no longer do investigations, and instead they arrest whoever incompetent pharmacists tell them who to arrest???

Why do they receive a paycheck again?

LarryDan43: Well we believe that you have forged your pain pill prescription and we are calling your doctor now. But I've worked with this pharmacist a number of times and he's never made a mistake,

Overzealous pharmacist.

No, lie by the cop in order to get a confession. Police do this ALL the time - claim they have proof of your guilt. Lots of the time (when the person is guilty) this works.

(for the impending cop haters): It's legal, I don't have a problem with it, and NO, it does not cause innocent people to confess.

mcreadyblue: Kudos to the Dallas PD for taking another dangerous criminal off the streets!

Now if they would only start patrolling Oakcliff after dark and catch the real drug dealers.

That shiat is dangerous! Why do that when you can write traffic tickets to soccer moms doing 5 over.

bluenovaman: mcreadyblue: Kudos to the Dallas PD for taking another dangerous criminal off the streets!

Now if they would only start patrolling Oakcliff after dark and catch the real drug dealers.

That shiat is dangerous! Why do that when you can write traffic tickets to soccer moms doing 5 over.

Soccer moms sneer at anything less than 20 over...

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: It's legal, I don't have a problem with it, and NO, it does not cause innocent people to confess.

In many cases, that's not true...go do a GIS for false confession, I'm sure you wont have to search long.......

/never talk to the police......

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: No, lie by the cop in order to get a confession. Police do this ALL the time - claim they have proof of your guilt. Lots of the time (when the person is guilty) this works.

(for the impending cop haters): It's legal, I don't have a problem with it, and NO, it does not cause innocent people to confess.

Um...

Um...

steamingpile: ///My ribs hurt from my surgery, but I don't want to even imagine re-constructive knee surgery without anesthetic.

Yeah!!!! If she's tough enough to withstand knee surgery without anesthesia she's doesn't need pain meds!!!!

Without *GENERAL* anesthesia. Obviously it was done with a local.

I worked in a CVS store, that was 20 years ago. The store was in a dicey area and we accepted huge sums in utility payments etc. so we had a police detail in the store.

The pharmacists never had to question a prescription. The cops knew who the scammers were and it was nipped in the bud.

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: LarryDan43: Well we believe that you have forged your pain pill prescription and we are calling your doctor now. But I've worked with this pharmacist a number of times and he's never made a mistake,

Overzealous pharmacist.

No, lie by the cop in order to get a confession. Police do this ALL the time - claim they have proof of your guilt. Lots of the time (when the person is guilty) this works.

(for the impending cop haters): It's legal, I don't have a problem with it, and NO, it does not cause innocent people to confess.

Anyone who doesn't have a problem with police being able to lie to citizens, but it being a crime for citizens to lie to police is a pigloving bootlicker and needs to EABOD.

Staffist: steamingpile: Staffist: I will never fill another prescription with CVS.

You would be better off boycotting the payment of taxes since that funds the government who is behind the drug war. Its gotten so bad they are making people take piss tests from their doctor if they take certain medications, a family member is being told she has to take one and she's 4 months out of reconstructive surgery for an ankle she crushed in a car crash. I'm fairly positive she will test positive for heroin since she just had a morphine drip removed and her halo device removed.

The DEA and drug war is a joke, I didn't even realize they were close to being de-funded in the 70s when they framed small pot smugglers to pretend it was a big deal.

No, I'll gladly continue to pay my taxes and argue against the 'war on drugs' as a citizen in good standing. Which I do.

My problem with CVS is that their pharmacist felt that it was OK to act as an agent of the police in setting up the sting, by coordinating her arrival with that of the police. The article states that only after she was escorted out of the store by the police officer that they were calling the doctor to verify, but as my FARK JD/GED in law has taught me, police are allowed to lie in the course of their investigations so I assume the Dr. verification mistake had already been made, but I remain firmly in the corner opposite the pharmacist and CVS.

See your problem is that you don't realize the DEA and taxes you pay to the drug war allowed laws to be passed to put him in this position.

Loren: steamingpile: ///My ribs hurt from my surgery, but I don't want to even imagine re-constructive knee surgery without anesthetic.

Yeah!!!! If she's tough enough to withstand knee surgery without anesthesia she's doesn't need pain meds!!!!

Without *GENERAL* anesthesia. Obviously it was done with a local.

If you have had a major surgery under a local then its only slightly less painful than having your balls squeezed in a vice but with pads in the vice to make it less painful.

And locals wear off quickly so knock my ass out

namegoeshere: This pharmacist should lose his/her license.

True. It goes beyond a simple a mistake. You don't call a cop on someone in such a circumstance unless you've double triple checked.


It sounds like the pharmacist had some sort of ongoing relationship or arrangement with that particular officer, feeding him arrests, judging by what the cop said.

Cop needs jailed for felony kidnapping charges and barred from ever being an officer again... pharmacist needs charged as an accessory to the crime and have licence yanked. They want to go batshiat crazy with arresting people, do it right and maybe people will start doing their damned jobs correctly.

/also hope she sues the living hell out of both the police force and CVS