OK, knock it off with the calls for Phenergan with Codeine. I've taken a slew of inquiries lately -- Do we have it? What flavor is it? Do you have the purple one?
This, of course, is one of the latest drugs of abuse -- mixed with soda or alcohol and apparently called the Purple Drank, among other names. Really guys, we're not stupid. We can tell from the questions you're asking that you're not suffering from any, um, cough today. And of course you're making it a heck of a lot harder for those folks who may legitimately need it. I've told several callers I don't have it (as I'm staring at the bottle on the shelf.) I've also faced disappointed customers who discover it's not the 'purple' one that they're getting. Yup, and then they want the prescription back. What a damn waste of my time.
There are still prescribers out there who need to be aware that people who ask specifically for this product may not be using it in the 'prescribed manner.' Just say no. There ya go.
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Oh geez, I thought the "purple drank" was so 2012. We have a multi-practice group that thinks that Prometh/Codeine is the drug of choice for every patient that walks in the door "with a cough" I even had one patient want to sample it first..for taste and consistency, to make sure it was the right thing. I don't think so..Mr. Chemistry Man.
maybe associated with recent hospitalization and ICU stay of Lil Wayne due to over indulgence of phenergan/codeine. now everybody wants to be like him!
Go for a run, you'll hack up all that crap and won't need the cough syrup. That will be $150, have a nice day!
I've stayed away from keeping it on the shelf in pints ever since the local quack wrote himself a script and picked it up and promptly dropped it on the floor in front of the counter...brown glass and sticky purple stuff. Icky.
We can thank Lil Wayne for that...it's in one of his songs
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