Story of some physicians selling prescriptions...and getting caught...something that has gone on for a long time, but the cases are growing with more prescription drug abuse...the one of choice...with the slowing economy there's not much hope of this changing direction unfortunately. What the DEA can do though, is to endorse E-Prescribing...where they would be able to trace a lot of the abuse...why they are still not on the band wagon here yet, is beyond me. It also aggravates physicians who are using an e-Prescribing format too...as for "those" prescriptions, it's back to paper. 
When you read the story here, it all evolves around paper scripts? So why does the DEA hang on to the 4 paper part forms? Surely doesn't make sense to me as a data trail can be instant, where fingerprints on paper take time to get and time to get the DNA on the forms...so again, why??? BD
A Riverside County psychiatrist who drove a Corvette and lived in a gated community allegedly wrote prescriptions in the lobby of his fitness club and outside restaurants for $100 each.
More than $1 million was stashed in luggage at the house of an Orange County physician who sold black plastic bags of narcotic painkillers. And at one Los Angeles pharmacy, people peddled medications out front while others squeezed inside to buy more drugs.Doctor shopping, in which a patient seeks prescriptions from multiple physicians, is on the rise among Medi-Cal recipients, according to Bruce Edwards, the state health department's chief investigator.
DEA officials said they strike a balance between ferreting out drug diversion and ensuring legitimate access to medication. In fiscal 2007, the agency investigated 224 doctors and osteopaths -- a fraction of 1%.
"That is minuscule," said Mark Caverly of the DEA's Office of Diversion Control.
Prescriptions supplanting illegal substances as drugs of choice - Los Angeles Times
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