A fraudulent prescription was filled this morning using the DEA number of Dr. Sarah Beeson, from Greenwood, Indiana. The prescription was written to a patient named Beth Bulling (DOB: 9-18-1958) for Amitriptyline 25mg. If you receive a prescription - written or phoned in - containing this information, please DO NOT fill. You can reach Dr. Beeson at (317) 215-7966 or notify the INSPECT office at (317) 234-8039.
I got the above via email from the Indiana Board of Pharmacy.. someone is so desperate that they are forging prescriptions for a NON-CONTROLLED MED – Amitriptyline – typically use for depression but some docs will use it for Fibromyalia pts… suppose to help their pain ?
I got a email, just this week from a pt on the east coast were they had been weened off of several different non-opiates and given a prescription – written by a SPECIALIST – for a TCA like Amitriptyline above… and the major chain pharmacy pharmacist REFUSED to fill it… and after much fuss and a District Manager Pharmacist got into the mix.. the Pharmacist agreed to fill it if the pt signed a statement that they would not hold the pharmacist nor the chain liable for any consequences of taking this medication.
I think that we may be reaching the bottom of the barrel…but maybe not
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There’s just no end to the insanity these days. People are so desperate to be out of off pain or less depressed or have anxiety controlled their willing ro go to any lengths to feel normal. There’s no such thing as normal anymore. Normal left the day 9/11 shook us to the core. Nothing has really been right since that attack. Our way of life as we once knew it is gone. We can’t trust anyone or anything anymore. Im so glad im older. I cannot imagine what hell this must be to young people today. Everything that was is wrong now. It’s such a shame. In the future the only thing that’ll be permanent is the stories we pass down on how great life once was.
VERY perceptive! Thanks.
not surprised at all. I have, in the last year, been refused any anti-depressant, a mild cardiac med (calcium channel blocker), all sleep meds, a muscle relaxant, & one other I forget at the moment –all were harmless, non-abusable, non-Scheduled meds that I asked for low doses of. The excuse given every time was that they were *DANGEROUS*!! to mix with pain meds. The new medical paradigm seems to be that it’s better to refuse to treat pain patients for ANYTHING than to “risk” treating them. I suppose the idea is that it’s easier to ignore deaths they can claim are due to the patient’s misbehavior (i.e. taking those deadly opioids), no matter what the actual cause of death was. The old “I didn’t prescribe them anything so it isn’t MY fault” defense.
Hmmm why amitriptyline sp? I was on that at a certain time for sleep? That’s about all it did for me? No pain relief (actually yes it did relieve pain, only because l could sleep). I can’t imagine abusing it though, unless you want to endlessly sleep? Go figure..
Amatriptyline has been prescribed for mild chronic pain for decades, off label. Great sleep aid. Too much creates a heavy and uncomfortable lethargy that will not permit one to sleep through it in my experience when I forgot I had taken one and doubled up on a very small dose.
Its not the med, …it’s the LIABILITY, real or imaginary. They worked hard to make %400-%9000 profit and they are not going to let it piddle away when they can be sued at the drop of a pill bottle. All risks they have minimized down to the bottom of the barrel.
They’re now abusing Parkinson’s Disease medication (Levodopa). That’s how desperate some substance abusers are. This just proves exactly what we’ve been saying for a long time – some will literally abuse any and all substances to get high.