having a prescription for say, Vicodin, while on probation is essentially a free pass to piss dirty for opiates. does any one know what steps a p.o would take to verify a script if he was shown corresponding medication to an appropriately labeled bottle.
what if the label said the script was filled a year ago from a walk-in clinic for intermittent pain caused by a chronic back injury? Any insight into the verification process would be appreciated.
I can tell you from 6 years of Federal Probation experience, POs were very strict when it came to scripts period...let alone the "90-day rule". And the "90-day rule" basically stated that any Rx that was prescribed that may light up a drug screen, required that I bring in the actual medicine bottle. That bottle could be no older than 90 days from the date the day the Rx was written. So no, I could not just grab a year old bottle of Percocet I had to get by on the drug screen.
If it was 91 days old, the PO was not only calling the Doc...he called the pharmacy to verify too.
Now...considering I was on Federal Probation for import/export drug trafficking in addition to being in a 6-month out-patient program, my scenario was likely not the norm. I do know Federal Probation is a lot different than State too.
Just my .02