A renewed war on powerful pain meds threatens to hurt patients

A pile of oxycodone, a highly addictive, schedule II controlled pain medication. Evan Blass is in pain, and it won't go away. Until recently, Blass filled his prescriptions at a local CVS in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but when the pharmacy ran out of the drugs he needed last month, he went instead to a nearby Walgreens. Blass had filled out a prescription there once before without any difficulties — but this time was different.

via Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/22/5133204/walgreens-pain-medication-crackdown-affects-patients-who-need-them