In our society there is an inevitable drive to obtain the opportunity to have a good time, and to have that good time at the least expense possible. For most of our society we have our own personal checks and balances that tells us what is right or wrong, but for some in our society they feel that the rules do not apply to them or they think they can get away with breaking the rules. Our nation has a problem with illegal drug abuse, and we are in the middle of a horrific epidemic with methamphetamines. The problem ranges from our local law enforcement agencies all the way to our Federal agencies. However, there is a much larger problem that ranges nationwide and that is the abuse of legal drugs. The pharmaceutical industry is very busy and it is only getting busier. Which unfortunately means a better opportunity for people to take advantage of our medical system.
There are many techniques that people have developed to take advantage of our pharmaceutical industry. The easiest and most common technique is that of taking a prescription written by a second doctor to a second pharmacy and not providing their insurance information to that pharmacy. If the pharmacy staff is not looking for potential sig
A third technique is when a person steals a pack of prescription blanks for a hospital or doctor’s office. The patient then can make up and prescription that he or she desires. A fourth technique that can be used is that of a person calling in claiming to be from a doctor’s office when in fact they are not. A similar technique is used by many nurses, they will accept money under the counter from there patients, and call in medications that were not authorized by the physician. In order to make all of the aforementioned changes and or deceptions can be completed by a person with minimal formalization with how a prescription is to be written. The problems are not just contained to patients and nurses. There are doctors just as guilty of not using the code of ethics that they should and an office that comes to my mind is that of Dr Robert Jamey Herbst and all of his associates. The foot doctors only write for pain medicine ranging from Vicodin to Oxycontin. Come on! Oxycontin for a foot get real.
ns that could help in determining the honesty of the “patient” then that person may be able to obtain his objective; but an observant pharmacy staff may be able to deter the person by looking at the totality of the circumstances. Such as, is this the person’s first visit to the pharmacy, and if so is that person presenting narcotics. The best solution for that situation and many like are to call local pharmacies around the patient’s home address and try
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