[truebluechy]

Hello,

I was trying to find out some info about prescriptions from pain managment.

I was wondering when you get your script from your doc and you take it to get filled does the pharmacy call the doc?? Or is that just on refills.

Thanks

[zippysgoddess]

It actually depends what you are on. If you are on any schedule I or II drugs, like a straight Oxycodone or Oxycontin, Morphine or MS Contin, or Benzodiazepines, you will not be able to have any refills anyway, you will have to see the doctor once a month for a med visit and get a new scrip each month. Under the new prescription drug laws from the FDA and DEA, none of these meds in the US can now have refills.

You can however, have refills on Schedule III or lower drugs, such as Percocet, Darvocet, Vicodin, Lortab and etc.

Now, as to calling the doctor, not, that is not usually a routine thing, as long as you have refills left on something, and they pharmacy doesn't have reason to think you should no longer be taking it, like if you had a scrip for Vicodin with refills left, but then brought in a different scrip for Vicoprofen that you got filled, then you come in later and try to get the Vicodin again, they are going to think something is up and you should not be on both and yes, they will call your doctor.

If you think you are going to get away with playing a prescription game, you will want to read my other thread, where I explained about the new computer systems for DEA reporting, and you will want to forget that idea really fast.

I am not up to typing it all again right now, so here's the link the post I just made explaining this stuff about an hour ago:

http://www.drugs.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19946

You might get away with something for a day or two, maybe more, depending on the luck of the draw, but they don't have to call your doctor for all of this to come together and bite you. Then you will find yourself in a mess of legal trouble.

Also, once you are in pain management, you agree to not abuse meds at all, of any type, and you give them the right to drug test you any time they wish, to make sure the appropriate levels of med are in your system, and nothing illegal. If you have to little, they are afraid you are selling the meds instead of using them, too much and you are abusing, so you are walking a fine line here.

Once you get red-flagged for suspicious pharmacuetical behavior, that will follow you to every doctor, ER, pharmacy, and job, for the rest of your life. So your best bet is not to start.

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