I think it’s absolute bullshit that pharmacists can refuse to give you your medication your doctor prescribed

Today I ran completely out of my Belbuca (buprenorphine), and my doctor had it sent to the pharmacy. I am new in this city and have been using a new pharmacy location. So I called and was told that they did not have it- after I had my doctors office resend it multiple times, I was told the truth. The pharmacist had decided that he “felt uncomfortable” giving it to me because I’m “so young”. I was absolutely shocked to learn that they can just withhold your medication that you need because they just feel like it. He went on to tell me that he could lose his license…for giving me a medication which I am prescribed and have been taking for years, that my doctor called in. I explained to him that that is not his concern and that my doctor prescribed this medication and decided that it is a fit, therefore it is, and my pharmacists back home have had no problem with it.

He knows absolutely nothing about my history and the extreme nature of my chronic illnesses, and he did all he could today to put me in the hospital from severe opioid withdrawal. Thankfully he finally advised me on some pharmacies that may be willing to give me the medication, and the last one I called was able to have it sent there and I took home their last box. After this whole ordeal I remembered that I had dealt with him doing something similar last time and trying to prevent me from getting my medication when I called the pharmacy by saying he needed a ton of different signed approvals from the doctor “because of my age”. I am an adult by the way. I find this appalling, as this medication does not even work for me and

I am going to a new pain clinic in this city tomorrow and was hoping they would better be able to manage my pain- now I’m just worried that pharmacists who know absolutely nothing about my life will flat out refuse to give me my own medication that I am prescribed. I’m so sick of being chronically ill in this country and I’m so sick of the hellish propaganda around opioids, even the absolute weakest ones that basically cannot be abused! I would know, they don’t even work! I’m also tired of this city’s CVS employees and pharmacies and of the lack of a single bench at the bus stops and of the fact that random people get a say in whether I get to function or head to the ER today. And of only getting to fill my prescriptions on the exact day that I run out, even if I am having horrible medical issues or other things to do, etc, I have to come in or I’m out of meds. Ughhh