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Doctor Shopping in Florida---2009 Legislation

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

Last year, in an effort to limit the number of people who go to multiple doctors to obtain prescriptions for the same type of pain medication, the Florida legislature enacted a new law that make is a felony for a person to go to more than one doctor to obtain identical medication before a refill is allowed for the first prescription. Florida was one of the last state's in the country to enact such a law. People's names, whether paying in cash or by insurance, credit card or otherwise, are entered into a data bank that "cross references" the person's name with the narcotics they purchase. If a person's name shows that he or she got Lortab's for instance from pharmacy A on June 4, 2010 using a prescription from Dr. Jones, and then again filled a prescription from Pharmacy B for Lortabs on June 15, 2010 using a prescription from Dr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Blog on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).