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Medicaid Patients Caught Selling Their Medications to Drug Dealers-Busted by the DEA

When economic times get tough there’s always someone out there to take advantage and in this case fraud was taking place when patients would fill their prescriptions and sell them to a local drug dealer who was reselling their prescriptions on the street...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 2:20 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Medicaid, DEA, Fraud, New York, drug abuse, theft, crooks

States To Begin Linking Prescription Abuse Data Bases Next Year

Back in 2008 the state of California made their announcement and it is now alive and ready for use for MDs to check for those patients who may be seeing several MDs for drugs that tend to be abused. Online Prescription drug database coming to California...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2010 4:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Doctors, Patients, Laws, drug abuse, painkillers, CURES, doctor shoppers, Califonria

Wall Street Employees Giving Up Cocaine for Pot and Pills–Downers and Not Uppers Are The New Addictive Choices

I guess those on Wall Street are finding a need to change their addiction from the constant high to a level of relaxation of sorts. Current economic conditions and instability are enough to give the “high” effect it sees whether we want it or not...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2010 12:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Prescriptions, Wall Street, Marijuana, drug abuse, Pot, Rehab, drug addiction, drug tests

The “OxyContin Express” in Florida – Pain Management Abuse Documentary

This video shows the addiction rates in Florida and how easy the “pain management” centers are making access in Florida. What I found interesting is the mother of one son shows the bags, everything he was able to get and compares her bag of 30 Vicodin...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2010 2:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Pain management, Addiction, Florida, drug abuse, Xanax, doctor shopping, oxycontin, documentary, Vanguard

Former Doctor Admits To the FBI He Was Building Pipe Bombs in His Apartment in Ohio

How did they find him, well according to this article one went off in his apartment, so this of course would bring the investigators. The doctor gave up his license back in 2006 after a long history of drug abuse problems in Ohio. In 1993...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2009 12:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, doctor, FBI, drug abuse, Ohio, substance abuse, Pipe bombs

California CURES System to Track Prescriptions for Controlled Substances Getting a Major Upgrade

Additional information is to be announced today to include a portal to make research and information gathering easier to navigate. In it’s present form it sometimes took days before a report could be generated and from what I am reading here with...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 1:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Health IT, Physicians, drug abuse, prescription drugs, CURES, California Attorney General, law enforcement, narcotics

Jackson Death Ruled Homicide – Video From CBS

When you watch how much he had taken to go to sleep, sad. It does put the doctor in an odd spot with a patient who demands and wants, and the doctor who advises, and I am sure nobody in their wildest dream every expected the sad outcome. BD ...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 1:26 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Medical Records, Pharma, DEA, Side Effects, Investigation, drug abuse, deaths, Michael Jackson, Diprivan, Propofol

Michael Jackson Reportedly used Several Aliases – Some Dead Individuals

It is illegal to write a prescription to a known alias name, but I wonder how does this play out if a prescription was written for a “dead” person? Obviously the dead person is not in need of any drugs last I knew, but legally I wonder how this would...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 10:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Medical Records, Pharma, DEA, Side Effects, Investigation, drug abuse, deaths, Michael Jackson, Diprivan, Propofol

Eliminating Vicodin and Percocet would Lower Doctor’s Options for Treatment

Is it an option to prescribe oxycodone or hydrocodone without acetaminophen as they would be stronger? With the focus on acetaminophen with the liver the numbers of overdoses appear small, but you could do the same thing with alcohol and there are...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2009 12:24 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, FDA, Pain Relief, drug abuse, percoset, hydrocodone, vidodin, Tylenol, advisory board

Police and DEA are Looking at 5 Doctors in Michael Jackson Investigation – Did they use an EMR?

After having read a few articles, what I find interesting here is the fact that several of them relate to the fact that doctors use electronic medical records, well maybe, but they seem to rely on the fact that Michael Jackson’s medical history will inherently...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2009 2:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Medical Records, Pharma, DEA, Side Effects, Investigation, drug abuse, deaths, Michael Jackson, Diprivan, Propofol

What Physician Did Manny Ramirez See, an MLB Doctor?

This is an interesting point of view here on the subject, was the physician one of the MLB doctors , and if so, why would be not be aware of the banned substances? On the other hand, did Ramirez not see one of the MLB physicians and looked for help...

Published Fri, May 05 2009 1:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Physicians, HMO, testosterone, drug abuse, banned drugs, Manny Ramirez, MLB

Arizona Data Base for Physicians and Pharmacists to locate the “Doctor Shopping Patients”

So far there seems to be quite a bit of interest in the data base, open to pharmacists and doctors only. One physician stated he had found one patient who had seen 23 doctors and 18 pharmacies seeking controlled painkillers over an 8 month time...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2009 1:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Physicians, Controlled substances, Prescriptions, Heatlhcare, Medications, Arizona, drug abuse, pharmacists

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