Prescription Drugs and Required Drug Testing by Doctors

[TBoneJack]

My sister lives in Tennessee. A while ago, she was prescribed Ativan (Lorazepam) by her doctor for anxiety.

Recently, she was told that in order to refill her prescription, she had to take a urine drug test.

Do they test for marijuana? What gives them the right to refuse medicine to someone who needs it because they happen to use marijuana?

 

[bluerock]

I think they are just testing to be sure that she is taking the prescription medicine. The idea is to prevent diversion. It's a dumb idea, because they have no real way of telling if she is doing a partial diversion. That, and the piss tests cost a lot of money. My state did this and it cause more problems than it solved; it has since been dropped.

 

[UncleBuck]

My sister lives in Tennessee. A while ago, she was prescribed Ativan (Lorazepam) by her doctor for anxiety.

Recently, she was told that in order to refill her prescription, she had to take a urine drug test.

Do they test for marijuana? What gives them the right to refuse medicine to someone who needs it because they happen to use marijuana?

you and your family are big on the hillbilly heroin, eh murdoch?

 

[BWG707]

A lot of Docs here in CA will not prescribe opiates if they find cannabis or benzos in your system. Kinda ignorant considering studies (USF) that showed combining cannabis with opiates can keep opiate doses lower while maintaining the same painkilling properties.

 

[racerboy71]

My sister lives in Tennessee. A while ago, she was prescribed Ativan (Lorazepam) by her doctor for anxiety.

Recently, she was told that in order to refill her prescription, she had to take a urine drug test.

Do they test for marijuana? What gives them the right to refuse medicine to someone who needs it because they happen to use marijuana?

is this through a primary physician or through a pain clinic? i'm not 100% sure on how pp's work, but if it's through a pain clinic, they will test for thc and any illegal drugs, and will yank her script if she turns up hot more than one or two times..
oh, i also forgot, my one "friend' is on a shit ton of drugs, and i don't think it's through a pain clinic, and he just about had his scripts yanked because he turned up hot for coke like 2x's in a year or some crap. so yes, even dr's can and will yank a script if you piss hot ime.

 

[TBoneJack]

is this through a primary physician or through a pain clinic? i'm not 100% sure on how pp's work, but if it's through a pain clinic, they will test for thc and any illegal drugs, and will yank her script if she turns up hot more than one or two times..
oh, i also forgot, my one "friend' is on a shit ton of drugs, and i don't think it's through a pain clinic, and he just about had his scripts yanked because he turned up hot for coke like 2x's in a year or some crap. so yes, even dr's can and will yank a script if you piss hot ime.

It's a primary physician in Tennessee (for my sister).

My wife's sister is in a similar position in Alabama. She's on some kind of prescription pain meds, and her doc drug tests her once per year. She gets all her weed from me (I can never smoke all I grow). And her doc always says (when he gets her drug tests back and sees her THC level): "You are smoking some high quality marijuana". At least that's what she tells me.

And that's all the doc ever says. He always refills her prescriptions.

 

[Rob Roy]

My sister lives in Tennessee. A while ago, she was prescribed Ativan (Lorazepam) by her doctor for anxiety.

Recently, she was told that in order to refill her prescription, she had to take a urine drug test.

Do they test for marijuana? What gives them the right to refuse medicine to someone who needs it because they happen to use marijuana?

They have a gun and are willing to use it. It is the primary source of all government utterances.

 

[TBoneJack]

They have a gun and are willing to use it. It is the primary source of all government utterances.

Yes, and they have chemicals and other explosives that they regularly use on ordinary American citizens as well.

http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/05/cops-burn-babys-face-tossing-explosive-bed-2/#