I don’t know about ordering vicodin online, but it is pretty easy to order prescription meds online in general. I have a “friend” who has ordered a prescription diet drug online with no problems whatsoever. The patient is asked to state their condition, and they are taken at their word. So it is very easy to say one is unusually overweight and unusually short in order to meet the criteria. The way vicodin and other pain meds are treated at online pharmacies might be different, my “friend” has never dabbled in pain killers or sedatives.
It is about as easy to get drugs from an online pharmacy as it is from a real pharmacy. It involves: deception and balls. To get Vicodin or any drug from a doctor, you first want to go to a blue collar doctor. Why? Because blue collar workers get blue collar injuries, ergo the doctors are more likely to hand out pain pills. Plus such doctors are usually understaffed, under-equipped and if you bitch enough they’ll write you whatever you want. Wash, rinse, repeat and you have 4 or 5 scripts for 2x refills on drug of your choice. BUT ITS NOT OVER! Pharmacists are going to catch this. They don’t want drug abusers in their pharmacy because getting audited is terrible. I am not saying that doctors are easier to fool, but that this is a multiple-con job and certain things you can do to fool doctors won’t work on pharmacists and vice versa. Most pharmacies are chains and chains keep all their data in a central computer, for convenience. They can see every location and every drug you ordered in
FDA FAQ on on-line pharmaciesthere are at least 400 web sites that both dispense and offer a prescribing service […] some online practitioners issue prescriptions in the absence of a physical examination or direct medical supervision. According to the American Medical Association, a health care professional who offers a prescription for a patient the practitioner has never seen before and based solely on an online questionnaire generally has not met the appropriate medical standard of care.My guess is she was doing business with multiple outfits operating on this basis. So far as my googling tells me, federal law requires pharmacies to keep records on all controlled substance prescriptions filled for 2 years, but I don’t see any sign of there being a mechanism to audit all of these records to see if an individual is buying too much of something. (If you could find n doctors you could convince to write a vicodin prescription for
Well, I think it’s a perfectly valid question. I would love to read a nice, non-sensationalized, piece of investigative journalism about online pharmacies, particularly addressing how they handle prescriptions of dubious providence, etc. A Google search sure as hell doesn’t easily reveal anything like that (just lots of ads for….online pharmacies.
I know someone who was addicted to Vicodin. He is a doctor, so he didn’t really have any trouble getting it. He was taking several pills a day for many months. Then, he just stopped. I’m sure it’s a bit like nicotine addiction–some people can just go cold turkey and be done with it while others can never beat there addiction no matter what they try. And everything in between, of course.