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Doctor Shopping in Florida - a law now being enforced

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

In an effort to limit the number of people who go to multiple doctors to obtain prescriptions for the same type of pain medication, Florida law enforcement has begun enforcing a 2003 statute, Florida Statute § 893.13(7)(a)8, 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. 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).