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Originally Posted by KC911
BS...Percocets were over-prescribed for someone who didn't need them (me) in '88. I've been observing it for decades, and the marketing to docs by Purdue Pharma is well documented.
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Mrs. Lee and I have both had Vicodin, Codeine or other similar things prescribed for post-procedure pain relief, and we never touched them. I highly doubt our docs would have agreed to refill any of them without an office visit to see why the pain was still present. If people are getting multiple refills for this kind of stuff with no attempt to find the source of the problem, I would think someone needs to look into that. But it would be on the prescribing docs, not the pill producers or pharmacists who just fill orders. I wonder what would happen if a pharmacist refused to fill a script just because he thought the patient had been there too many times and he disagreed with the doctor.