Do you sell syringes?

Posted by The *Angriest* Pharmacist as Laws, Stupid People, True Story

Here’s another post asking other pharmacist’s how they handle the situation. My state allows me to sell syringes with no prescription. My pharmacy’s regulations allow me to sell syringes without a prescription. Do I have to? Naw. Do I? It depends. What about you?

If some scuzzo comes in and asks for them. I usually ask what insulin they are using (I picked this tip up from TheAngryPharmacist.com). If they can answer, I will oblige. If they cannot, I tell them that I can’t sell them insulin syringes unless they can prove they are using them for insulin.

If someone comes in and buys a bottle of Humulin, there’s no problem there…

And we never break boxes. You are diabetic. 10 syringes will do you no good. Your disease state is not going away.

Recently, I had a guy ask for them for a roommate. He didn’t know what kind of insulin, but the roommate was in the store. So they both came back a few minutes later. They both had collegiate baseball practice uniforms on for a local. These weren’t the kind of jersey you can buy either…these guys were on the baseball team. The guy ended up telling me that they were for a cat that got Regular insulin. These meatheads were juicing. But, I seriously doubt they can get IM with the 1cc short needles I sold them. They came back the next day and tried to return them. No dice - can’t take them back. You lost out on like 15 bucks kid. I snooped around on the internet trying to find a NCAA D2 email address for someone involved with testing or prevention. I couldn’t find anything. It wouldn’t be a HIPPA violation since I didn’t even know their names. Anyway, if these kids want to do that stuff, let ‘em. Shrink their balls. Give them back-ne. Roid Rages. Whatever…

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