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.
Pharmacists do indeed play a roll as a check and balance to the safe use of prescription drugs.
Unfortunately, they are not always privy to the patient medical history, and a judgment call on addiction or addictive behavior can be simply what it is, a withdrawal symptom because the patient ran out of a particular drug. This has happened to me and most chronic pain patients from what I can gather.
The pharmacy is just not a good place to control some social behavior. Pharmacists do not as a rule, have medical histories to make good judgments, and if they become a arbiter of what is right or wrong, we will have created unintended consequences.
This is why I thought the slippery slope comment made by someone earlier to be correct.