Five days is just crazypants long. But I still remember being able to go to an indie pharmacy and have them fill it while you wait. I suspect that’s been made more difficult with the proliferation of medications available and the level (real or perceived) of abuse of said medications. I get treated like a criminal every time I refill a controlled substance that I’ve been taking for almost 20 years, and it’s not a drug (as far as I’m aware) that’s particularly popular on the street.
But five days would quickly become a huge problem for me (and a lot of other people in the US) because that’s about as early as a lot of insurance plans allow you to refill a prescription, so you’d be constantly just about to run out, or just plain run out whenever there’s any kind of hiccup. I get very antsy about the controlled substance I mentioned above, because without it: horrible withdrawal and possible seizures. The blank looks of, “I dunno, we don’t have it and I don’t know when we’re going to get it” from pharmacy personnel is particularly terrifying and a common occurrence lately.
