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@lioness and all, Walmart also has store policies that limit vital pain meds that patients need, which I didn't know anything about until trying to pickup an opioid prescription for my wife. We were counting the days before we could have our prescription filled when I stepped up to the pharmacy check out to pick it up. They said it wouldn't be available for 3 more days despite it being 30 days past her last script for the same med. I asked them why and they said the insurance and doctor had approved the script for pick up that day but it was Walmarts policy to extend the refill date the 3 added days. I hope someone can tell me that I'm mistaken because how can any retailer arbitrarily withhold a patients legal script for a controlled substance if it is legal? Someone please tell me I am wrong, or reinforce my experience. Walmart or any pharmacy has no right to do this. This is another reason as I mentioned previously that we moved our pharmacy needs to Target. We picked the script on the next day there, 2 days before we could have at Walmart. My wife simply could not wait as she was suffering with many painful side effects of MM chemo.

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Oh geez- so glad you were able to get the meds at Target- how horrific what Walmart did- doc covered the basics and they still delay- I feel this should be addressed to the Attorney General of your area- your Senator - because the Dr was on top of it. Cancer is hard enough without this nonsense .