too many refills

[brynrevels]

My daughters father has a very bad back injury, he was prescribed oxies and perocets for years and started abusing them, he eventually ended up in prison over it. He is now clean from oxies for over a year, but has been taking tramadol, the doctor wants him to start back on narcotics since the tramadol wont last forever. About two months ago he thought he was out of refills and called into his doc for a refill, it was sent to the pharmacy, the pharmacy told him no that it was two days too early so he transferred it to another pharmacy, a few days later he received a call from the old pharmacy that his prescription was ready to be picked up so he did, so for the last two months both pharmacies have been filling them. He pays cash for his scripts since he has no insurance. The other day he went to get his script from one of the pharmacies and they said it was cancelled by the doctor but hadn't been contacted by the doctors office about it. He was told the next day to turn in to the county jail for a probation hold but wasn't told for what. Is what happened illegal? I am guessing the hold is for the multiple prescriptions, but since they are from the same doctor is that the same as doctor shopping? He is not my boyfriend anymore and hasn't been for over two years, but I am wondering if they can charge him with this and send him back to prison, if so I need to prepare my child. We live in Wisconsin by the way, and I have been on google all day and can't find anything about this exact drug in any situation, only ones like oxies and percocets and vicodin and stuff. PLEASE help if you can.

[namnam46]

I may not be able to help you legally but I can emotionally.

I'm soooo very sorry for you having to go thru this. I can tell how your daughter is EVERYTHING to you and how this is going to hurt you having to tell her any bad news of any kind.

It's especially sad since this is Mother's Day.

I'm a 63 year old Grandmother and so I know how VERY difficult this is for you. Just know that I'm thinking about you and will be looking forward to your updates.

I'm so glad that you found the other forum.  They help people all the time with problems about meds and prescriptions. The person that I contacted to help you with an answer is also form WI.

Try to relax and get a good nights sleep because you probably won't get any more answers until tomorrow.

Take care.......Sherry

[brynrevels]

I just posted it there, thank you, I am just looking for some kind of answer to go off of. I don't agree with him accepting the refills from both places, but he is a grown man so I don't have a say in what he does, it just ***** for my daughter.

[namnam46]

Hi,

I've asked someone to come and post an answer for you but I hope that you will repost so you can get MANY opinions. I don't feel qualified to answer your question. I think I know the answer but I don't know for sure and this is way to critical a post.

I wish you the very best and hope that you will keep us informed of what happens.

Hugs...Sherry

[namnam46]

Hi brynrevels,

I think you might get a lot more answers to your question if you were to re-post this to the Pain Management Forum. They deal with this type of question a lot. Go up to the top of the page and click on forums and scroll down to PAIN MANAGEMENT and click on it.

Good Luck....Sherry