Marion Man Sentenced for Illegally Handing Out Prescription Drugs
Here is a interesting issue.. this Pharmacists “dispensed” FOUR TABLETS OF XANAX 2 MG and prescribing is OUTSIDE OF HIS SCOPE OF PRACTICE…but.. Pharmacists demanding that a pt accept lower doses or few doses per month and/or refusing to fill certain combination of medications – regardless of how they are prescribed to be taken.. nor the disease state(s) the pt may have… is within their SCOPE OF PRACTICE. Isn’t changing the medications prescribed for a pt a form of PRESCRIBING ? And seeming no bureaucrats wish to view it this way… apparently their view of a Pharmacist’s scope of practice is very myopic and/or selective ?
WILLIAMSON CO. — A Marion man gets his punishment today for illegally handing out prescription drugs.
In 2012, police accused Larry Steven Patton, 64, of Marion, of giving Xanax to a customer at his pharmacy in Harrisburg, when that person didn’t have a prescription. Patton was an owner and a pharmacist of Medicap Pharmacy in Harrisburg. He admitted to giving the customer four pills, each having two milligrams of Xanax, on July 12, 2012. Patton admitted that this was outside the scope of his professional practice and not for a medical purpose under a valid prescription.
A judge sentenced Patton to three years probation.
He’ll also pay a $3,000 fine and and will do 25 hours of public service.
I guess that this quote from David Herlihy, executive director of the Vermont Board of Medical Practice, reminded doctors that they can be conservative about dispensing medicines for chronic pain.
“We’ve never disciplined anybody for under treatment of pain,” he said
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