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If a person is IN recovery, it's their responsibility to notify the prescriber of a history of addiction or alcoholism--it would be THEIR relapse.Most people with a history of addiction are CURRENTLY addicts. They're not about to admit to it.In every hospital in which I've worked, admission forms asked for detailed addiction and alcohol history.Doctors are uncomfortable asking this, as it's insulting to be asked.Information is NOT transferrable from one hospital to another without a patient's written consent. Even if you're in the hospital, if you call another hospital, records are not interchangeable. That's what HIPAA is all about.One patient comes to mind, who insisted she had excruciating pain for kidney stones, despite a negative scan of her kidneys and no debris in the screen on her toilet that indicated she had kidney stones. The only additional information I could get was from her prior admissions to the ER in the SAME hospital. Even checking her past admissions, I felt like I was on shaky ground due to HIPAA.Not only did she have a history of work as an EMT with access on the ambulance to drugs, she'd been admitted to the ER for multiple "pain" complaints. She was young and healthy enough so that she charmed doctors, talking about her sprains from skiing, sports-related back strains, soft tissue injuries, history of kidney stones, etc., all the things that are hard to quantify.That she was at the medication room window at shift change looking for pain meds while sitting on the floor, laughing with the other med seekers, told me all I needed to know. This person was not in excruciating pain.I hate to say it, but many prescribers seem to have a gift for giving addictive painkillers to people with a history of drug abuse, and not giving them to people who DON'T abuse them, and are in real pain.I treated addicts for more than 25 years. I knew every routine, every line, every trick addicts use to get drugs, and on occasion I was fooled. Addicts tend to have very good social skills--otherwise they wouldn't have access to drugs.My social skills are learned, creaky, and polite, and only recently fit my age (old lady), in a different world from than of the drug addict.Doctors almost never know when they're manipulated.I might have written a different response four years ago, but since on occasion (multiple bad teeth) I've needed stronger than ibuprofen pain killers recently and was told it didn't hurt to have teeth extracted. I beg to differ.Then there's CVS problem of the $2B fine the DEA levied against them 2013. Because they got fined, they've gone nutty with self-congratulatory monitoring, meaning don't try to get your antidepressants filled ONE DAY EARLY. If you take medication, you have to plan your life around CVS' mistakes.They were found sloppy in their monitoring and guilty of dishing out Oxycontin like Tums. Lots of people OD'd on it.Recently, I dragged myself up to the pharmacy window on the single occasion I had a prescription for tylenol #3 with codeine (6 pills), from an abscessed tooth so bad it had made my nose shift slightly to one side. I'd just had an extraction of multiple lengthy roots, and an infection that made my face puff out to 2x its normal size.I was bleeding profusely through wads of napkins. This Walgreens had been my pharmacy for several years, and knew who I was. I was bleeding onto their counter, and sobbing in pain. Still, I had to produce a CURRENT driver's license, and they had to check with the prescriber before filling the prescription.So what's happening now is that addicts still get their drugs, since it's mostly from non-pharmacy suppliers, and people who rarely ask for pain medication DON'T get it.