Generally, because this practice is so common in Massachusetts, prescribers will write the scripts 1-3 days ahead of time (if it's for OxyContin) because they know about the wait, and the patient or a family member drops it off and picks it up later.

There are thousands of legitimate pain patients, who have now become "drug addicts". 75 year olds are ending up in detox centers after a life of exemplary citizenship. Why's that? Because the same manufacturers campaingned in the early 90's for "the right to pain relief", and fraudulently offered studies that today are considered "junk science". They cleverly orchestrated an atmosphere for the fear of undertreatment of pain and the threat of lawsuits (based on ONE California case).
President Bush says that drug money supplies the “terrorists” and their weapons. As far as I'm concerned, that drug money includes the pharmaceutical product/revenue. OxyContin comes from the same poppy fields, the same plant, that cocaine and heroin come from. The only difference is that it is a “legal” drug. A legal medical drug, which for the first in history, has become the cause of deaths over the "illegal" drugs.

The person who posted this complains of multiple OxyContin prescriptions being presented at the same time. Aren't there laws that if you (a pharmacist) suspect something wrong, you have not only the right, but duty to check into this? Is this what a pharmisist does about a potential problem? Writes a complaining comment on the internet? I thought you were supposed to help to protect that these pills only get into the right hands? When you filled those 3 "inconvenient" customers, did you stop to think that the pills were most probably going to end up in some teenagers stomach, possibly ending in death?

I am disappointed in the whole system. The pharmaceutical company's should not be producing product for illegal traffic and trade. The FDA should not allow "junk science" to be used in the process of market approval. Doctors should be trained well enough in this area to make sure that only the appropriate candidate of these drugs gets a prescription. At the very least, they should be doing thier own homework; not blindly accepting reports from the money-based manufactureer. Pharmacists should be diligent in assuring the prescription is legitimate and initiates from a legitimate doctor for a legitimate patient. Patients should begin to question EVERYTHING about thier health. The day of "professional integrity" is over. I feel qualified to make these statements, as I am a victim of this system, a 55 year old chronic pain patient prescription addict with an unwanted detox history. I only wish I had known what OxyContin really represented. I'd have taken the pain over it any day.
Annie