So, you can only go to one pharmacist? Also, let's say a doctor prescribes oxycontin for a patient and the pharmacist suspects the patient is addicted. He can't refuse to fill the script in your world, right?
This is a excellent representation of the way populist ignorance of a subject can result in huge errors in judgment.
It might help you to understand that virtually all users of oxycontin develop drug dependencies that you would refer to improperly as addiction. If you had your way, pain medications for chronic conditions would not be sold because they cause what you call a addiction.
Unfortunately for those of us who have these conditions, we must deal with this crap on a daily basis. There is a difference between dependency and addiction. But the withdrawal symptoms are exactly the same. If pharmacists were the arbiter of such decision making, the patient would certainly find him or herself screwed by improper judgments made about their condition. This is why doctors make these calls. Not the retailer.
Pharmacies are expected to provide the drugs prescribed. If this breaks down in favor of personal judgment by pharmacists for so called ethical reasons, then the regulators will be forced to regulate.
What you will end up with, is a law that says they will sell the drug or be denied a State license. This will not help your cause, nor will it advance the effort to eliminate abortions from our society.
Pharmacies are not the place to advance social change efforts, and that should become clear. If not now, then later.
You’re reading way too much into my post. I was responding to the poster’s moronic idea that the pahrmacist has no business (because he has no skill worth mentioning) being involved in dosing decisions. I hardly have a vision of all, most, or many oxycontin users as addicts, I just picked a drug that even the King of the World Octar the First could relate to.