sorry for being so late.
it was a new standard for VA pharm's to call pt's who are/have been on long term pain meds. want to know how its working, what other things i do to help with pain, (i.e., exercise, meditation, what foods i eat, any adverse reactions to meds, those kind of things.). same type of questions my primary has asked over the years. primary has a medical degree and years of experience seeing me and talking with me, versus, i've never met anyone from a VA pharm in my life that i know of.
we all know now, the CDC & how political it is, lumped all the opioid deaths in with legit chronic diseased/injury longterm use patients who have had little to no neg issues with their pain meds over the years. so the media and politicians knee-jerk out opines and bad policies. politicians, media, big pharm don't want to take on nation actors(you know who they are) who are and have been flooding this country with fentanyl/meth, and the like, so they side step that, and the patients who hadn't had any issues get slammed dunked by these policies. and of course, more population control as all of us legit patients got tossed into a national database and telling pharmacists they know better than a patient's doctor.