Lakeshore Advance, 2012-03-28, Page 238 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Pharmacy explains why customer can't get prescribed drug
Lynda Hillman-Rapley
Lakeshore Advance
April being cancer awareness
month brings a time when niany
people want to share their sur-
vival stories or the sadness of los-
ing a loved one. When Bruce Beat-
tie carne to the Lakeshore Advance,
we were not prepared for his story.
Last fall, Bruce's wife was diag-
nosed with a late stage cervical
cancer. 'Treatment began imme-
diately with eight weeks of daily
trips to London for chemother-
apy, radiation and brachytherapy.
Ile said over the holidays things
seemed okay -but by mid Febru-
ary the "cancer had gone crazy" as
did the pain. After a few weeks of
ever increasing amounts of hydro -
morphine use she was hospital-
ized for a week where full-blown
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chemotherapy treatment started
and switching to methadone to
manage her pain.
One day last week Soni was
brought home after being released
in the late afternoon. 'That's when
Bruce's concerns began. It was late
and they detoured the London can-
cer clinic pharmacy knowing there
is a pharmacy here in (rand Bend.
Once back honk' he was surprised
to find out he could not get the
much needed drug at home and
was forced to drive hark to London
to get a prescription filled. "They
could not fill the order here at
home. Now i have this added stress
of making sure she (his wife) does
not run out of this important medi-
cation," said Bruce.
"'1he pharmacy appears to have
the right not to provide you with
this pain killer," he said. Out of
frustration be says he can't in good
conscience spend any more money
there, but knows this is his only
means of lashing out at a system
that makes no sense to him. Ile
acids that many local communi-
ties (10 offer the drug by prescrip-
tion and that makes the decision
by the local pharmacy even more
puzzling.
Pharmacy explains
(rand Bend Shopper's Drug -
mart Pharmacist lames Banne'r-
illan said he can understand this
family's frustration. Methadone has
uses and special rules and this
patient would not have known
that. Approximately five years ago
the rules changed in Ontario. Since
that tient' at least one pharmacist,
and the Ontario College of Phar-
macists prefers two pharmacists
to have taken the methadone dis-
pensary course with the (:entre
for Addiction and Mental Health
in Toronto. Because there are very
few patients with prescriptions for
this drug and because the Grand
Bend pharmacists are spread so
thin- there has not been the hours
needed to take this course. So,
none of the Grand Bend pharma-
cists have the required education
to dispense methadone and that
means they can't fill the orders.
Bannerman said he was not at
the pharmacy this reddest carne,
but would have explained there are
other place's that do dispense meth-
adone- but not many, Because car-
rying methadone is labour inten-
sive for pharmacies -many don't
have the staff or resources to have
it. This pharmacist is also frus-
trated that doctors wit() also need a
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adone, (10 not explain these spe-
cial circumstances to the patient.
Because of these rules doctors usu-
ally prescribe one of many options
01 course, he says, he does no -
know the details of this patient,
so could not Comment. The price
for methadone is approximately
$60 for 100 nil. of Omg/ml. solu-
tion, which would change depend-
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