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In Florida opioid prescriptions are very tightly controlled. My GP can’t even write them and it pisses him off because he can’t even give his older patients a 5 day supply. You have to go to a pain clinic and they control it too. They can’t write more than a certain amount each month and they do random urine tests.
Even if you were to get the scripts the pharmacies check the database and won’t fill more than the monthly limit.
The pendulum has swung and it has become a little over board with control of sleeping pills like Ambien.
As my GP says nobody breaks into a pharmacy to steal Ambien.
Your GP can legally write narcotics in all likelihood. He or his organization just chooses not to. As do a lot of Physicians. Writing narcotics is a nightmare. 95% of the prescriptions are for the high or resale cash, not for pain. That number may be low.
I am leaving the short-term post-operative patients.