Heroin deaths double after painkiller crackdown

[Worried senior]

91. Well it has begun

This week when husband called for the refill on his medication Walmart told him he had to call the clinic for a written rx. This of course will have to be done every month.

He saw the dr. a couple months ago, had a urine check for meds I guess, the medication didn't even show up in his urine and he had taken the prescribed dose. Now, he was scheduled to go back in March, he has to make an appt for a med check again. More inconvenience, he's been on this medication for months.

We live rural, luckily we are only six or seven miles from the clinic but a lot of people around here are 40-50 miles away, then you get to add another 30 miles one way to Walmart because that is where our Part D plan prefers we get the meds. This is going to be a real hardship for people but apparently they aren't concerned about that.

The medication he takes only takes the edge off of the pain, there is no way that it controls it so what the next steps will be remain to be seen. Surgery won't work, he has way too much scar tissue and the drs. all say they wouldn't touch him.

Getting old sucks for the person going thru it and the people watching it happen.