Some time ago the Pinellas County Sheriff’s department arrested a number of people for “doctor shopping” and passing “fraudulent” prescriptions. Last night I reported on the recent story from Hernando County on the arrests of 23 people who were part of “an organized prescription drug ring”. It was reported that many fake prescriptions were created to acquire thousands of narcotics.
Again, many people with the disease of addiction were arrested and not a single pharmacist or drug wholesaler who was complicit in putting thousands of drugs onto our streets shared the same cell. The phoniness of reporting on phony prescriptions needs to come to an end. The pharmacists who fill prescriptions for people who are unknown to the pharmacist for hundreds of pills should immediately lose their pharmacy license. The Florida Pharmacy Board has been negligent and egregiously complicit in allowing the tools for addiction and death to be so readily available via the middle man for the drug deals. Pharmacists who fill prescriptions for large quantities to people who are young and their physical characteristics are “glassy eyes” should both lose their pharmacy license and be prosecuted for drug dealing. The privilege for having a pharmacy license should not be allowed to be abused.
The DEA should be prosecuting the drug wholesalers who ship to the few pharmacies who put the drugs out onto our streets. We have a system in place that has created “legal” narcotic drug distribution and most of our public officials, police officials, business and media pretend to remain “dumbfounded”.
It is my hope that the police departments around the country stop protecting the legal drug cartels. The fact is that the “fraudulent prescriptions” are not fooling anyone. They are a continued excuse to turn a blind eye to the tens of thousands of individuals and families who have suffered from the “less than forthcoming” information from the police reporting.