Warrants: Limbaugh Was 'Doctor Shopping'

My Way.Com ^ | 12/4/03 | Jill Barton

[Howlin]

I did not realize seeing multiple doctors and getting different opinions was illegal.

It's not, but "seeing multiple doctors and getting different opinions opiates IS illegal.

[sergeantdave]

It's against the law to go doc shopping to relieve a malady? I think the WOD just stabbed itself in the heart and is about to see a major revolt from seniors. This is going to get very interesting.

[boomop1]

I know, was just tweaking a little, poster lacked knowledge but wanted to bash Rush. I believe Roy Black will have little problem squashing this bug Brown.

[VRWC_minion]

This doesn't bode well for Rush. I suspect he is still in denial.

[Lurking Libertarian]

It's against the law to go doc shopping to relieve a malady? I think the WOD just stabbed itself in the heart and is about to see a major revolt from seniors. This is going to get very interesting.

It's illegal in Florida to: (1)go to multiple doctors (2) get prescriptions for controlled substances from all of them and (3) not tell them that you're getting the same prescriptions from the others.

[Jackie]

Martha Stewart.

Who is the person that rehabbed along with Rush?

[CobaltBlue]

Getting all the drugs you want from one doctor probably isn't illegal. Lying to several doctors in order to get drugs from all of them probably is prescription fraud.

I don't know how many people are prosecuted for prescription fraud, but it's not uncommon. Most of the people I know who do this started out with a bad back and just slipped over into a life of crime a little bit at a time. Most have been women, actually, including a couple of nurses.

Then there are doctors who will give you as much as you want. Those have a tendency to lose their licenses.

[WhiteGuy]

The paw prints of the clintoons are all over this.


Seriously......................

I wish I'd never heard the word "clinton" it turns my stomach.......

But,

This problem with the illegal drug use was caused by one man - Rush Limbaugh.

It's his fault, he screwed up, and he has to take the responsibility for it, and if necessary the legal beat-down.

This has nothing to do with the dems, the clintons or the left.

[Ragirl]

This does not surprise me at all. It's Rush Limbaugh, so they are gonna go after him to make an example. Everyone in my family has had bronchitis and was prescribed cough medicine. When I went to pick the stuff up at the store, I had to show my drivers license and social security card so they could enter it into a database. They are watching for cough medicine addicts too.

[lepton]

I didn't know doctor shopping was against the law.

Shopping around for a doctor that'll treat you in the manner you wish to be treated is not illegal. What's illegal is to go to multiple doctors to each prescribe you drugs. For example, going to several doctors to each prescribe you the months worth of pain-killers - thereby providing yourself with an excess of the drugs, as well as messing with the doctors treatment via deception.

[Uncle Hal]

Folks there are people in very highs place and in positions of power that would like to take Rush down once and for all. Rush has probably done more than any other person to put the GOP where they are today. What do you the liberal whining about the lack of liberals in talk radio is all about. Rush was the leader in bringing Conservatives into the mainstream. There would have been no Fox News Channel without Rush. Rush was a pioneer and has done immense damage to the Democrats. They will never forgive him for that.

[jimbo123]

The PB County Prosecutor is a RAT



Krischer to seek fourth term as PB County state attorney

By Alan Gomez, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Saturday, August 2, 2003

WEST PALM BEACH -- Barry Krischer didn't decide whether to run for a fourth term as state attorney until he tried to imagine somebody else stepping into the office at such a complicated time.

With a major shift in the office's funding starting July 2004, a complete restructuring that could mean a reigning in of expenses, Krischer ended months of speculation and declared this week he would run again. He previously had said he didn't want to be in the office too long but changed his mind because he felt he needed to guide it through the transition.

"The need for continuity was impressed upon me, and that's why I decided to stay for one more term," he said.

The court system in Florida has long been paid for by each county. But a 1998 amendment to the Florida Constitution set July 1, 2004, as the date when the state will take over all financing.

Krischer said the move probably will result in a tougher process for securing money, especially for the proactive programs his office has established during his three terms. He cited programs that deal with domestic violence, juveniles, the elderly, and drug abuse.

Krischer's office secures about $1 million annually in outside grants, and he said that will have to continue or expand with the new financial structure.

The 59-year-old Democrat opened his campaign account last month. No challengers have done the same, meaning Krischer might run unopposed, as he did in 2000.

Attorney Douglas Duncan, a West Palm Beach Republican, said he is considering running for the office.

"But now that Mr. Krischer has announced his intention to run, he has my 100 percent support," he said.

Sid Dinerstein, chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, said it would be difficult to overcome Krischer's reputation.

"I find that there are people who jump into almost any race, and that might happen," Dinerstein said. "But I would say at this point, we have not identified a specific and viable opponent."

[sergeantdave]

I know seniors whose medicine cabinets are bulging with medication. They go to numerous docs to get relief for their ailments. This is not uncommon. Seeing a senior in a wheelchair on the six o'clock news dragged before the bench will result in a revolt. Seniors vote and they will vote these people out of office. Guaranteed.

[nemo910]

Broward woman charged with deceiving doctors to get drugs
©Associated Press
September 28, 2002

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- A woman has been charged under a new "doctor shopping" law passed to prevent deception in obtaining prescription drugs.

Marilyn Georges, 53, was charged Thursday with six felony counts of "doctor shopping": obtaining the same controlled drugs from more than one doctor within a 30-day period by using deception. The law went into effect July 1.

"This is the first time we've filed such a case in this division," Broward Assistant State Attorney Sharon Mullane said. "I believe there will be plenty of others. This is a problem that has existed for some time."

Prosecutors said three unsuspecting Broward doctors wrote Georges eight prescriptions for oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller, and alprazolam, a sedative, in a little more than a month.

Police first questioned Georges last month after two people died days apart in her home. One death was due to a drug overdose, according to the Broward Medical Examiner's Office. Authorities are conducting tests in the other case.

Georges told police she "misled" three doctors into prescribing for her at least 130 tablets of alprazolam, the generic form of Xanax, during three days in August, according to police records.

Georges is accused of visiting three doctors to obtain prescriptions for oxycodone and alprazolam on July 24 and 25, and again on July 10 and Aug. 16, according to prosecutors.

Plans for a database to monitor an estimated 13.4-million prescriptions written every year in Florida failed to win approval during last spring's legislative session. State officials estimated it would cost taxpayers $1.5-million to collect the prescription data.

Walgreen's has a system that can track prescriptions filled at any of its more than 500 branches in the state.

However, that system does not interact with other drug stores and chains.

"There are more deaths from prescription drugs in Florida right now than illicit drugs. This is the drug abuse problem right now," said Joe Spillane, a pharmacologist at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. "There's got to be a way to make a better system."

[Grammy]

I have a friend who suffers from chronic serious pain, and pain medicine allows her to function. Without it she would be bed ridden.
Every year, at about this time, her Dr. starts looking over her chart and realizes that he has prescribed a bunch of pain meds for her, and he may get in trouble. Then he sends her off for a round with several other doctors, some pain management doctors, or rheumatologists.... to let them prescribe for her for a while. This then looks like she is Dr. shopping. It is a pattern that has happened to her for many years, and isn't helpful for her well being. About the time she gets comfortable with her Dr, he shuffles her off to another.
Pain management is a serious problem that gets muddled by recreational users or addicts. One is legitimate, the others .......

[Political Junkie Too]

And Chong’s “crimes” were inarguably far less serious than Rush’s.

Really? From what I've read, Limbaugh purchased drugs for his own personal use. Chong was selling drug paraphrenalia in order to enable others to use drugs. Or is it only that Chong's drug was marijuana, so that makes it far less serious, despite enabling others to use it?

-PJ

[jrawk]

Did you file your taxes correctly last year?

Ever Speed?

Ever violate OSHUA Regs?

Ever do anything non-violent that was possibly illegal?

Do you think it would be right if I spent the rest of the year looking for any possible breakage of law on your part so I could put you in jail?

Which is the greater evil/cost to society here?

Rush's non-violent, non-imposing self medication that cost the public $0.00.

Or the actions of the DA fishing in the past as I described above at great cost to the public and in neglect of more important endeavors for public good.

Ever wonder if the law referred to is perhaps immoral in the first place?

Besides last I heard the "spirit" of the mentioned law was to prevent DEALERS from Dr. Shopping for the purpose of resale, not end users from self-medicating.

Just asking.

-- lates
-- jrawk

[jrawk]

Oh yeah.

Maybe, Just maybe Troll...

well I bit... looks like we have a winner!

-- lates
-- jrawk

[k2blader]

"seeing multiple doctors and getting different opiates IS illegal.

So is "doctor shopping" seeing multiple doctors at the same time while getting different opiates from said doctors?

Or is "doctor shopping" seeing multiple doctors at the same time while getting the same opiates from said doctors?

Or is "doctor shopping" seeing multiple doctors at different times while getting different opiates from said doctors?

Or is "doctor shopping" seeing multiple doctors at different times while getting the same opiates from said doctors?

I can see it being illegal if Rush was seeing multiple doctors at the same time and getting the same or different controlled drugs without informing said doctors of other prescriptions, which might indicate he was building a stockpile for his addiction.

However, the above is pure speculation. I'd like to see the exact "drug shopping" law in question.

[ladyinred]

Thanks, this and perhaps Rush is the only time I have heard of this, but maybe it happens a lot. The people I know who work in doctor's offices say that the doctor's dismiss them as patients, and the drug stores refuse to sell them drugs. Looks like Florida is cracking down (no pun intended) on what appears to be a epidemic there. Rush is in Florida. Hmmm.