I believe when I worked at Walgreens in MI that it was like only five days, but they recently changed it to 60 days from the time it is written for Schedule II. People were always bringing in scripts that had expired and we could not call the doctor on those because they had to be handwritten from the doctor and I guess MI decided to change it. Any scripts that were not schedule II were good for six months from the time they were written. That meant that all refills had to be filled within this time. And also it was common for us to give patients that were out of pills enough to get them through till they could get refills from the doctor, but this did not include any narcotic medications. Every state is different though. All you have to do is call a local pharmacy. Asking these kind of questions on this board is a waste of time.