Got to love it when the pharm screws up :)

[Jonro]

Swim walked into his local pharm today with his normal .5mg xanax script and walked out with a 2mg pack a xanax. Nuff said.

[xenon]

Yeah this happend to swim also today
he was prescribed a box of lorazepam 20 pieces and they gave him a box of 50!

[ExtraordinaryMachine]

damn, swim would love to know where these pharmacies are! lol

[JaWill88]

that is awesome. swiys are lucky. swim just got his first script a few days ago for 20 .5mg clonazepam! swim is very happy. if his next script is for 20 again, what would happen if swim changed the 20 to 30 and it looked perfect?

[fnord]

Originally Posted by JaWill88

what would happen if swim changed the 20 to 30 and it looked perfect?

jail?

[Paracelsus]

^^^ Indeed. That is diversion of controlled pharmaceuticals. The same could be said about getting a larger quantity/strength than prescribed (of a controlled substance), noticing it and not doing anything about it. This is most likely a gray zone, though.

This thing may sound funny, but really is disturbing. Errors in dispensing pharmaceuticals (wrong dosages, sometimes even wrong drug) cause many deaths. While benzodiazepines are generally not lethal even in very high doses (unless combined with other depressants), imagine what happens when a dosage error occurs with opiates or other drugs with a very narrow therapeutic index.

[JaWill88]

of course swim understands jail is a possibility he just wonders what the chance of getting away with something like that is. do the pharmacys call the scripts in to the doctors or something? how does it all work?

[Alekseev]

Originally Posted by JaWill88

of course swim understands jail is a possibility he just wonders what the chance of getting away with something like that is. do the pharmacys call the scripts in to the doctors or something? how does it all work?

It varies. With something like 50 tabs of 80 mg OxyC's, they might verify if they are suspicious. Something like Xanax, maybe. The more restrictive the drug, the more precautions they take. If in doubt, don't risk it. It's better to be free from jail, then have a little fun and do a lot of time (forgery is a felony + related drug charges means some serious time. Maybe ten years ago SWIY would get probation, but todays world is different and the gov't doesn't fool around anymore)...just my opinion.

[fizzle]

DO NOT alter any perscription. SWIM can confirm that it is a jail sentence for sure. They wil call your doctor at the very least if the suspect anything. Pharmacists get scripts all the time so they know what to look for. Put the idea out of your mind. Who cares what the chances are of gettin caught. It could be .1%. But it only takes 1 time and you are done. Furthermore, it will go on your records forever and every psychiatrist or doctor you ever see again will know what you have done, even if the police never got involved. SWIMS doctor was nice and let swim go without legal action. Swim is thankful every single day for that, for swim knows his life would be very bad right now.

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[JaWill88]

Originally Posted by fizzle

DO NOT alter any perscription. SWIM can confirm that it is a jail sentence for sure. They wil call your doctor at the very least if the suspect anything. Pharmacists get scripts all the time so they know what to look for. Put the idea out of your mind. Who cares what the chances are of gettin caught. It could be .1%. But it only takes 1 time and you are done. Furthermore, it will go on your records forever and every psychiatrist or doctor you ever see again will know what you have done, even if the police never got involved. SWIMS doctor was nice and let swim go without legal action. Swim is thankful every single day for that, for swim knows his life would be very bad right now.

that is good stuff to here for swim. swim didn't even think about the part with doctors and pharmacies and no trust ever again. it was hard enough to gain enough trust to get this perscription for clonazepam. and this was his first one, hopefully their will be another. swim would hate to ruin the chances of that.

[Jonro]

Let swim make clear that he did not alter his script in anyway, the pharm made the mistake and swim is waiting another few days to open them anyway(swim still has some .5s to use anyhow) just in case the pharm might contact him about it.