USA - Legality of filling prescriptions from the same doctor

[oathrocks]

SWIM has a legal question that he is hoping someone can help him with, SWIM will give a brief background and could go into further detail later if it would help.

SWIM has been going to the same doctor for the past 4 years, and SWIM has only filled pressriptions from that doctor. SWIM knows for a fact that his doc is being investigated by the DEA and or other agencies for "over-prescribing" and rxing medication with no medical reason for the meds.

SWIM has been getting the exact same medication (schedule 2) and the exact same quanity for the last 4 years.

Many pharmacies will not take the doctors script, they outright refuse it. It is wierd a pharmacy in one place will say NO, then that same "chain" pharmacy located 2-3 miles down the road but in a differnt city will fill the script without a problem.

Today SWIM went to a pharm he has been going to for about 4 years, not a chain pharm a mom and pop place and he was told that they would no longer fill his scripts anymore cause it has been brought to there attention that he has been "filling multiple rxs" ...so SWIM left and went to a BIG CHAIN Pharmacy and had no problem filling the saem script.

Now my question is:

Swim is getting a new prescribtion every week (since schedule 2 cannt have refills so you need new one), for the exect same med for about 2 years.
Again SWIM is only seeing this doc, but he does go to other pharmacies since the med is not always in stock, and it is easier depending upon where is working that day,

Is SWIM breaking the law?? He pays for the doc visit, and gets the script direct from the doc..

The doc does it this way becasue SWIM gets 100 pills, and doc doesnt not want to write a script for 400 pills..

SWIM is following is docs orders swim is not selling, abusing or doing anything that would be deemed illegal in no way....

But can SWIM get in trouble for following the docs orders, filling new rxs that the doc writes, just cause do to stocka and loaction SWIMN go to differnt pharms??


Anouther note SWIMS freind had a phram deny him and he was an ass to the pharmicist, the pharm CARE report that states what meds, doc, and pharms that he went to and that phramacist called all of them leting them know he has been filling mutiple scripts from the same doc, he serached and found new phrams already....and he has not gotten in into any trouble and his scripts are 3x SWIMS weekly...since SWIm and he does to the same doc he is thinking that might be why that this pharm is cuttin off all people with the doc in question...

swim has not been to that phram for about a month, but the last 3 weekshas had no problem filling is rxs...so swim thinks it is just this phram...but also questioning is swim is doing anything wrong..

would not the doc get busted, the patient is following the docs orders corrrect?




thanks!!!!

[old hippie 56]

Sounds legal to swim. Doc being investigated not his patients.

[oathrocks]

Originally Posted by old hippie 56

Sounds legal to swim. Doc being investigated not his patients.

thanks..

If POLICE OFFICER (I believe that is the screen name, the cop on this site)
can you please weigh in or anyone else that is a pharmacy tech..doc...ect..

thanks!

[oathrocks]

would anyone else like to chim in??

any other thoughts would be greatly appreacited!!!


thanks

[pinksox]

If a doc is prescribing irresponsibly, the heat's going to come down onto the doc; however, it's also likely to bring some increased scrutiny to those patient who've received large scripts for meds with high abuse potentials...they'd want to find out if those pills are being sold/diverted.

In SWIM's opinion, any doc handing out a patient 400 short-acting opies a month is just begging to be investigated and have their licenses yanked. Especially if this doc isn't a GP/PCP and not a pain specialist. Any patient needing that many SA opies isn't having their pain managed appropriately and needs to be referred to a specialist.

Oh, and the no-refill law on Schedule II's changed about 18-months-2 years back. Scripts can now be written to disp the first month with two dated re-fills for the next two months. However, all three need to be written on separate pieces of paper.