We lost our father a few weeks ago after a long illness at the age of 88. Our mother, with our help, cared for him everyday. The Doctor has put her on Xanax to help her rest. Our brother and his wife are friends with a few people who work at this CVS. They ask that they be the only people who can pick up her prescription from now on. My mother sent me to pick up other prescriptions for her and I was told that I could not. Only my mother or my brother. Our mother was very upset when I told her and she has since told the pharmacy and all is ok, but she asked the CVS how this could happen and he had no answer. My sister and I want to know was this legal?
They apparently do not train their pharmacy aids properly. You might want to find out why your sibling is doing this. Is someone interested in delivering the script to the rightful patient ‘a little light’? I mean get some out for themselves? That’s common since Xanax is the IT tranquilizer in the drug black market.
The DEA sees fit to make Xanax a Schedule IV Drug and it’s dispensed like jelly beans. People can make a nice sum diverting Xanax because it’s a great drug for your grieving mom (to take 1 when she needs it) but take 4 and the abuser is wasted and then many times have amnesia when they come to twelve hours later. DEA discernment is none existent. But anyway...
Hopefully I’m way off and it’s an ‘attack you’ opportunity where the relatives can gain favor or power or money for themselves. Get appointed POA, like that is fun in any way!
But this is true, there’s a booming black market for Xanax on the street. I think they go for $8-$10 a piece and I’ve wondered “Where do all those bonafide, pharmaceutical company grade pills come from?”
Keep your eyes on your relatives....
I am very well-known at our local CVS because my husband is on a ton of medications, but I think if one of my kids tried to pick up his meds, they wouldn’t give them out without calling me. Not the way things are now with drugs.
I don’t believe what CVS did was actually illegal, it just wasn’t smart on their part. That may be why the pharmacist didn’t have an answer. He may have been afraid you’d report them to Corporate.
The only way to work around this is for your Mom to get mail order prescription service where the pills are mailed directly to your Mom's address.