I wish they'd just make early filling illegal or set a legal limit like 3 days or so on a non-regular basis. Our professional judgement isn't enough sometimes to satisfy drug seeking patients and we wind up in trouble when they complain of "poor customer service" because we won't hand out scripts a week early without a valid reason. Making Benzo's a CII would intensify the workload profoundly, can you imagine processing a new RX for every Xanax refill? Just make it illegal to fill them early and give us a hard law to cite to patients.
Honestly, I wish they'd set limits on pharmacists filling early and also mandate that on all controlled substances the prescriber place a DNF date on there. I feel like most don't even check the PDMP, I've saved many a practitioner who wrote an opioid for a drug seeking patient on zubsolv/suboxone in addiction recovery. In half the cases it's sad because they don't even know what those drugs are and I have to explicitly explain the situation too them... I told a dentist his zubsolv patient can't receive opioids and he said "well give them Tramadol then" and I'm like.... bruh I can do ibuprofen.
