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prescription fraud, HELP
My OB has been giving percocets ever since October, well last time I was there the nurse accidently(or maybe she did it to catch me) gave me an extra prescription slip with the drs signature already on it. The nurse writes all my scripts for percs cuz the dr has already signed the slips and the nurse carries it with her. Anyways 2 weeks after this appointment, I filled out the script with my name and percs! I am since so scared, i cant eat or sleep and I'm a nervous wreck! needless to say I'm clean now. I filled this script on April 5, when do you think I would be caught by? Do controlled substance slips go back to the dr ? help please
You're right, this is a very old post....you'll have much better luck starting your own thread.
That being said...you're risking an AWFUL lot doing what you're doing. If you continue down this path, you're going to lose your medical license before you even GET it. Certainly that isn't worth all of that hard work? Please, get yourself some help!!
Good luck to you!
That being said...you're risking an AWFUL lot doing what you're doing. If you continue down this path, you're going to lose your medical license before you even GET it. Certainly that isn't worth all of that hard work? Please, get yourself some help!!
Good luck to you!
My goodness, FocusST, please go back and reread this post. You are all over the place. I don't think your problem is whether or not your father is going to see that fake prescription. Please get help. This is a MESS.
It's an old post, BUT:
I1) In the "health profession",
2) Faked Rxs,
3) I guess I'm addicted (although due have chronic pain and damaged discs due to a car accident!, not that what I did makes it ok!)
Laws vary state to state, but forging a prescription (ie. Rx) is a felony (you're breaking the federal law) and as far as I'm aware sort of up to the Dr to press charges, UNLESS the pharmacy called the cops...which they WOULD NOT DO, unless a Dr said he/she did not write the script! Which basically puts the responsibility on the Dr to get someone in trouble or not!
IF a pharmacist/pharmacy suspects a fake script they will either:
1) tell you it's out of stock to "get rid of you."
2) call the Dr, fax over a copy and ask if they wrote it!
The state i'm in has "triplicates" for controlled substances, BUT like others have pointed out, nothing happens with them, they are sent to the state "capital" somewhere, entered in to a computer somewhere? and the paper Rx is probably burned.
MOST of the time, from what my sister and other Drs have told me, the people who tend to get in trouble/cough are the ones who go "dr shopping."
My sis told me of a story where she got a letter saying how a patient of hers was seeing 9, NINE different Drs fir the same script (percocet). BUT, the issue was, she was filling it with medicaid! I think she was getting away with it for a while (years?) before the "feds" finally caught on!
Hd she paid in cash, there would have been minimal or NO record and she would have gotten away with it.
If anything, the insurance/medicaid/medicare probably look closed than the gov because they want to cut costs! a person filling too many prescriptions (of anything, valid or not) would prob raise a red flag!
HALF OF MY FAMILY are DRs and I'm in my last year of med-school, where do you think I get the blank scripts from?
I was "caught" once. The Rx was actually written out for a friend and we were going to split it. We would switch off whos name was on the Rx and switch off pharmacies. Did it too many times, I had a gut feeling that I would get caught that time! Something felt strange...new pharmacy, I was there, but my friend was NOT in the "computer" system there.
Basically, the pharmacist suspected it was fake/forged, called my father (the Dr on the Rx pad) told him we're still there "what does he want him to do? should he call the cops?"...asked him if he wrote it & faxed over a copy for him to look at. My father, realizing it was my handwriting but written to my friend, said: "he didn't remember, it, "its been a busy day, why don't you rip it up, I'm too busy today to deal with %^&*m like this today!"
Pharmacist: "Good, I'm busy as well and really don't want to nor have the time to deal with %^&* like this of deal with the cops or the paperwork involved."
My father called me while I was in the store asking me if I wrote a Rx for "XXXXXXX" I said no, RAN out of there (with my friend) and drove, what felt like 1000mph home, ripping up EVERY blank Rx I had in the process.
That cured me of writing fakes for a while, I started going to a Dr and getting proper (ie. "real" prescriptions.
That said, it's been a while since I've been to the/a Dr (I have an appointment after the new year) but due to a back injury I still fake prescriptions for Percocet and paranoid/afraid what might happen tomorrow.
Maybe I'd be considered addicted, but I do have several "messed up" discs in my back, which press of the nerve roots (neuropathy).
It's Christmas, so I know my father is not in the office (so couldn't call him, but it's possible the faxed a copy of the Rx over). Then again, didn't hear the fax machine "go off" and make it's typical dialing noise when I was there, waiting
Then again, if they suspected a fake, I don't think they would have filled it!
Also, I had to go to a different CVS location, because the one they know me at was closed, but they still had access to my records (been given & forging the same script for over two years!!). ANd always go to CVS.
I was VERY calm and relaxed and joked with the guy at the counter and pharmacist, wished the a happy holiday, new year and good evening. I was dressed well too and "clean."
As I said earlier, if it's a typical day, they would notify your Dr or if they suspect something & can't speak to him/her & ask if they wrote it, THEY JUST WON'T FILL IT, tell you they're out (so you just leave).
They WILL NOT call the cops without checking with the Dr 1st, because what if the Dr wrote it?
I'm paranoid because, is there a fax of the script, sitting on a pile waiting for my father to see? Then again, if they suspected anything, they wouldn't have filled it!
I live in a state where you can check the computer to see if I'm using multiple Drs, etc (I'm not).
I'm probably OK, just paranoid. In 99.999% of cases, if its not taken care of immediately (they call you're Dr & then the cops), "you're in the clear!"
Which is why I always filled my Rx Friday afternoon/early eve (like 5pm on Fri). I knew they wouldnt be able to get a hold of my father, unless it's an emergency, until Mon. But I guess maybe I was giving myself false confidence, as they could have filled it but sent a fax over to father, waiting for him to see it on Mon?
Lastly, when I read the STATE GUIDELINES for pharmacists, it says, if you suspect a forgery, DON'T FILL IT.
IF THEY DON'T CALL YOUR DR &/OR POLICE AT THE TIME YOU'RE FILLING THE Rx, THEN I SAY, IN MY EXPERIENCE, YOU"RE FINE.
I HOPE THE Dr I SEE IN JAN GIVES ME "VALID" RXs & a FAX OF MY FORGERY IS NOT WAITING FOR MY FATHER TOMORROW.
At the end of the week, the Pharmacist sends all the prescriptions to the state, where it probably sits in a "banker box" for ages until they just burn/shred them.
I guess I'll see what happens tomorrow, I PRAY I'LL BE FINE & IN THE CLEAR.
I1) In the "health profession",
2) Faked Rxs,
3) I guess I'm addicted (although due have chronic pain and damaged discs due to a car accident!, not that what I did makes it ok!)
Laws vary state to state, but forging a prescription (ie. Rx) is a felony (you're breaking the federal law) and as far as I'm aware sort of up to the Dr to press charges, UNLESS the pharmacy called the cops...which they WOULD NOT DO, unless a Dr said he/she did not write the script! Which basically puts the responsibility on the Dr to get someone in trouble or not!
IF a pharmacist/pharmacy suspects a fake script they will either:
1) tell you it's out of stock to "get rid of you."
2) call the Dr, fax over a copy and ask if they wrote it!
The state i'm in has "triplicates" for controlled substances, BUT like others have pointed out, nothing happens with them, they are sent to the state "capital" somewhere, entered in to a computer somewhere? and the paper Rx is probably burned.
MOST of the time, from what my sister and other Drs have told me, the people who tend to get in trouble/cough are the ones who go "dr shopping."
My sis told me of a story where she got a letter saying how a patient of hers was seeing 9, NINE different Drs fir the same script (percocet). BUT, the issue was, she was filling it with medicaid! I think she was getting away with it for a while (years?) before the "feds" finally caught on!
Hd she paid in cash, there would have been minimal or NO record and she would have gotten away with it.
If anything, the insurance/medicaid/medicare probably look closed than the gov because they want to cut costs! a person filling too many prescriptions (of anything, valid or not) would prob raise a red flag!
HALF OF MY FAMILY are DRs and I'm in my last year of med-school, where do you think I get the blank scripts from?
I was "caught" once. The Rx was actually written out for a friend and we were going to split it. We would switch off whos name was on the Rx and switch off pharmacies. Did it too many times, I had a gut feeling that I would get caught that time! Something felt strange...new pharmacy, I was there, but my friend was NOT in the "computer" system there.
Basically, the pharmacist suspected it was fake/forged, called my father (the Dr on the Rx pad) told him we're still there "what does he want him to do? should he call the cops?"...asked him if he wrote it & faxed over a copy for him to look at. My father, realizing it was my handwriting but written to my friend, said: "he didn't remember, it, "its been a busy day, why don't you rip it up, I'm too busy today to deal with %^&*m like this today!"
Pharmacist: "Good, I'm busy as well and really don't want to nor have the time to deal with %^&* like this of deal with the cops or the paperwork involved."
My father called me while I was in the store asking me if I wrote a Rx for "XXXXXXX" I said no, RAN out of there (with my friend) and drove, what felt like 1000mph home, ripping up EVERY blank Rx I had in the process.
That cured me of writing fakes for a while, I started going to a Dr and getting proper (ie. "real" prescriptions.
That said, it's been a while since I've been to the/a Dr (I have an appointment after the new year) but due to a back injury I still fake prescriptions for Percocet and paranoid/afraid what might happen tomorrow.
Maybe I'd be considered addicted, but I do have several "messed up" discs in my back, which press of the nerve roots (neuropathy).
It's Christmas, so I know my father is not in the office (so couldn't call him, but it's possible the faxed a copy of the Rx over). Then again, didn't hear the fax machine "go off" and make it's typical dialing noise when I was there, waiting
Then again, if they suspected a fake, I don't think they would have filled it!
Also, I had to go to a different CVS location, because the one they know me at was closed, but they still had access to my records (been given & forging the same script for over two years!!). ANd always go to CVS.
I was VERY calm and relaxed and joked with the guy at the counter and pharmacist, wished the a happy holiday, new year and good evening. I was dressed well too and "clean."
As I said earlier, if it's a typical day, they would notify your Dr or if they suspect something & can't speak to him/her & ask if they wrote it, THEY JUST WON'T FILL IT, tell you they're out (so you just leave).
They WILL NOT call the cops without checking with the Dr 1st, because what if the Dr wrote it?
I'm paranoid because, is there a fax of the script, sitting on a pile waiting for my father to see? Then again, if they suspected anything, they wouldn't have filled it!
I live in a state where you can check the computer to see if I'm using multiple Drs, etc (I'm not).
I'm probably OK, just paranoid. In 99.999% of cases, if its not taken care of immediately (they call you're Dr & then the cops), "you're in the clear!"
Which is why I always filled my Rx Friday afternoon/early eve (like 5pm on Fri). I knew they wouldnt be able to get a hold of my father, unless it's an emergency, until Mon. But I guess maybe I was giving myself false confidence, as they could have filled it but sent a fax over to father, waiting for him to see it on Mon?
Lastly, when I read the STATE GUIDELINES for pharmacists, it says, if you suspect a forgery, DON'T FILL IT.
IF THEY DON'T CALL YOUR DR &/OR POLICE AT THE TIME YOU'RE FILLING THE Rx, THEN I SAY, IN MY EXPERIENCE, YOU"RE FINE.
I HOPE THE Dr I SEE IN JAN GIVES ME "VALID" RXs & a FAX OF MY FORGERY IS NOT WAITING FOR MY FATHER TOMORROW.
At the end of the week, the Pharmacist sends all the prescriptions to the state, where it probably sits in a "banker box" for ages until they just burn/shred them.
I guess I'll see what happens tomorrow, I PRAY I'LL BE FINE & IN THE CLEAR.
I am bottom of the totem pole here, that was my own personal opinion. I think a psych, would be a great place to start, it looked to me as if you should talk to a professional about all the turmoil you've been through.
Sounds to me like your source gave up on you when it could come back and bite her in the behind too. (Nurse Practioner) Doesn't matter if she is using too much or not. This is about you. If your roommate was using illegal drugs, why wouldn't you give them their name? And now you are suing your roommate because it has put a red flag on your medical record. So it was ok for them to use illegally as long as it didn't effect you? Hard lesson to learn, but addicts are in it for themselves. (Roommate and NP) And to answer your question, no, they do not have to keep in supplied if they cut you off.
You never said what you are on. Start a new thread, on top of this page, orange 'post a question' button.
You can go to an ER for immediate attention, or a specialist for a cure.
You have a family health history.
You have a roommate on drugs.
You buy drugs off the street.
You basically have Dr shopped to keep a sorce.
You have been dismissed by a medical professional.
Look in the mirror. I (we) will try to continue communication with you, IMO you should seek a psychiatrist instead of therapist so if a script is needed, they will be able to give one.
You can go to an ER for immediate attention, or a specialist for a cure.
You have a family health history.
You have a roommate on drugs.
You buy drugs off the street.
You basically have Dr shopped to keep a sorce.
You have been dismissed by a medical professional.
Look in the mirror. I (we) will try to continue communication with you, IMO you should seek a psychiatrist instead of therapist so if a script is needed, they will be able to give one.
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