Jail for prescriptiom fraud?

[kajama]

Hi, well I have read some older post concerning this but not sure how it ended up. I am a 34 year old wife and mother, I have a very active life with my children. About 2 years ago I was prescribed Lortab and Soma to help with my migraines. Well after a while I became addicted to it. Now I have never been on street drugs or ever drank so this addiction was new to me and I didn't confide in anyone due to my embarrassment bout it. Oh ( did I mention that my husband is an associate pastor of a local church) This went on for about a year. I liked the feeling of happiness, energy, and not feeling stressed out. Well after a while I had to take more and more. The most I have been on is about 10-12 Lortab 10/500 a day. Well I did something really stupid. After doctor rx wern't enough I called in my own rx. After a while I realized I had a problem and confided in my husband and I went to a medical detox center. Now I have been clean for 9 month now. Now my past has come back and I was confronted by some police.  I told them everything and was completly honest. They did have a warrent for my arrest and let me turn myself in the next day.  Now I am facing court and have no idea what to expect. The police did search my house for the meds but found none and I offered to do a drug test. I have no past record and I know what I did is a felony and wonder if it mandatory jail time. I know what I did was wrong and I am willing to pay the price.  I am scared of jail but gotta do what u gotta do. I am wondering if anyone else has been though this and what was the outcome?  any help would be appriciated.

[vicki595]

It's over...moving on now...time to play nice on the playground...group hug...

All the best to everyone!

V.

[Mikeinthesouth]

This is pretty funny. Thanks for the laugh you guys. You guys are great. As I always say diversity makes the world go around.

[cirene]

Can threads get locked here?  This would be a good one to close imho lol.

No more negativity towards anyone!

[kajama]

Chill out and relax didn't mean to start a war here. this world needs people like vicki to help with encourgement.so THANK YOU Believe me i already feel like the most stupid person in the world and no i do not feel like a victim, i did it to my self.  Also need people that will state the absolute worst thing that can happen to you (cerronne) :) and Ga guy and also Mike, you too are great and offer encourgement and advice.  This is the last time I will post concerning this, but will post letting people know how things turn out in court.  Everyone take care, I know I am gonna make the best out of life RIGHT now reguardless how things turn out later.

[cirene]

I'm with you for a good chunk of all this.  Recovery isn't all puppies, kittens and glitter.  It's cleaning up after yourself as well.  You can't just ignore past actions like they never happened.  They won't magically disappear and the world won't automatically forgive you just because you've admitted you're an addict now.  But I gotta say, kajama's spot on with how she's dealing with this - I respect her 100%.  But I think Vicki does need to take a step back and take a look at things from a different perspective.

Cerrone - let's just try and move forward and look towards the future.  Let this rot into the depths of the archives lol.  I hate that this ever happened.  And getting well is the most important part of being here right now :).

[cerrone]

Yeah, the role of addict and victim plays all well together. I can't believe they are talking about what I said, still.  People do read into the things much more than needed some time.  I never blamed the girl, who i do not know, for anything. I just kinda stated the obvious.

And to vicki: My post upset you? Well I'm not Mr. Sympathy, I said nothing wrong or out of line whatsoever.  If everyone always got the same response, advice on here, than there would be no reason for this to even be here.  If you don't agree with someone's post, fine your choice but dont go on some crazy rant saying thats not how "we" want to be represented.  Everyone has their own story and their own thoughts/opinions, it's called diversity.  If you don't agree with a post, don't dwell on it.  It seems to me the only person being harsh are you two, harboring thoughts that I someonehow persecuted her or something.  I said we weren't attorneys, 6 to 5, and a case like this and 500,000 other ones is a problem, it does cause problems with chronic pain patients, its a reality.  while i have not said one bad thing about this woman, you have characterized me. I don't think every addict is the victim when it comes to the addicts crimes.  Just because you are an addict doesn't get you a free pass to say "my bad" or "its because im an addict" when most of the time it should simply just be I screwed up! But it's pretty obvious you didn't interpret my post very well at all so I'm not going to expect you to really relate to this one either.  Again, I have said not one thing about the either in a bad way, and just because i'm not as compassionate or sympathetic as you doesn't mean I'm being harsh, everyone is different which is one of the reasons this website does work so well because you have different advice, views, opinions, etc.