The call it Doctor hopping, it is a form of "obtaining a controlled substanceDrug abuse by means of fraud" when several differant doctors give you a controlled substanceDrug abuse without knowing about the other doctors. I know this is true because my regular doctor showed it to me on Thursday when I wnet to him to get pills. He wouldn't give me any and it showed all the prescriptions I got for controlled substancesDrug abuse over the past six months.  Every doctor that gave me a script for VicodinVicodin
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I think if you get scripts from more than one dr. it can cause this to happen.

Everytime we get scripts for anything narcoticDrug abuse - it gets turned into the Department of Health, and if they see that you have been getting from more than one Dr. they get suspicious. I used to work at our department of health for drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension patientsKidney diet - dialysis patients and I have seen this happen to several of them as well.

Hope this helped answer you question...

Hopeless

As a matter of fact, this has just happend to someone in my area a few days ago, he had gone to 3 or 4 different dr.'s and to the ER several times over the past 6 months or so. It was on our local news - said he had a trial and could get up to 6 months in jail and a very LARGE fine...

This scared me cause i also have 4 dr.'s and have went to the ER about 4 or 5 times since Feb. this year. So far i have been lucky i guess - so i wanna keep it this way...No more for me - I definately don't want this to happen!

I am NOT ever going to do this again, they are cracking down on this kind of thing BIG time!!!

Scary thought!

Hopeless

The DEA has been trying to fight this "Dr. Shopping" problem for years. It's one of the biggest hurdles they have in fighting the prescription drugChemical dependence - resources
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Hope this helps a little,
Hugs,
GYpsy