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Doctor Shopping a new trend in Florida
Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 June 2010 11:54 Written by blogmaster Sunday, 30 May 2010 02:15
Doctor Shopping is a process where a person in a short frame of time goes from one clinic to the other or from one doctor to many other doctors in order to get a huge stock of the prescribed drugs.
This has become a matter of huge concern in Florida as the drugs that one can avail in this manner are being used to sell it to other people at a higher price illegally. The drugs that one get according to Doctor Shopping is also being used by the person as addiction. The drugs that the people want are usually Oxycotin or Oxycodone and Hydrocodone. These are the narcotic pain relievers. They are only used in case of severe pain.
Patients or other people usually visit a doctor complaining about severe pain in the back or any other body part for that matter and try to avail the drug in the form of a prescription. They do this with many other doctors in Florida and get a legal way of attaining a huge amount of the drug. They then either sell it or use it for themselves as an addiction.
This has led to a major problem in Florida as the number of deaths due to drug addiction has been increasing and one of the main reasons is the overdose of the prescribed drug and this is hugely influenced by Doctor Shopping. This has led to a problem as innocent and sincere citizens who try to get a second opinion from other doctors. The people who are not satisfied with their first doctors try the opinion of the second doctor in order to get better results. These innocent people also have been the suspects in the case of Doctor Shopping.
Thus Doctor Shopping has been the case of abuse of drugs and the improper use of drugs. This has led the Florida Senate to look into the matter of Doctor shopping very carefully. The narcotics department and the drugs monitoring agency in Florida are working together to crack down on the Drug Mills set up due to doctor shopping. A bill has been passed by the Florida Government that would enable them to monitor and check on the prescriptions and the drugs handed down by the clinics to the patients. The clinics have the duty to report to the Department of Health the details of the person and the drugs along with the quantity that is handed out to the patients.
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Oxycotin – a prescribed drug in Florida
Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 June 2010 11:47 Written by blogmaster Wednesday, 26 May 2010 02:10
The doctors of Florida prescribed a narcotic pain killer during surgery and other pain relieving diseases. Oxycotin is one of such pain reliever, which is often prescribed by the doctors of Florida. This prescribed drug oxycotin is like the morphine or heroine contains enormous toxic components to cause sever damage of the nervous system. The other 
name of oxycotin is known as oxycodon which has a strong toxic effect on the body. The higher dose of oxycotin might even cause death. Even through doctors of Florida prescribe it to be a prescribe pain killer for relieving pain during or post surgery.
It has been found that 85% of the oxycotin drug is being prescribed on Florida in USA. This is reason of massive drawback for the state, when the state is all set to reduce the problem of the drug and alcohol in such a stage oxycotin a strong drug is still being used in the market of Florida as a prescribed drug. This is a matter of concern for the concerned authority of government’s health department. The amount of intake has been said to be prescribed by doctors but there are physicians who misuses the drugs.
Oxycotin is an OPM synthesized compound which is being derived from the Tsebin. The Oxycotin is being a carbon compound is initially hazardous to health. The oxycotin compound contains a hydroxyl group in its 14th carbon. It is a prescribed drug by once consumed would be severely addiction for the patients. This drug is mainly prescribed during the time of pregnancy or for curing the asthma disease. The use of this prescribed drug is so strong that it sometimes affects the health of the new born fetus once used for the pregnant women.
The drug is never advised to be consumed with alcohol. If a person consumed oxycotin with alcohol it would create sever damage to the brain or immediate death of that person. In the market oxycotin is available in the forms of pills. This pills are generally available at dollar 500 but as this prescribed drug has been made less available in the market many doctors misuse and sale their samples in dollar 5000 to his patients. Many doctors in Florida never even advise the proper intake of oxycotin. This prescribed drug has to be changed into any other substitute.
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Things to Keep in Mind to Stride Away From Oxycontin Abuse
Last Updated on Monday, 17 May 2010 12:14 Written by blogmaster Friday, 14 May 2010 02:10
There are avalanches of cases where the patients have to take addictive drugs to control pain or cure some complex problems. These drugs are dangerous in nature and are known as ‘controlled substances’. If taken in quantities larger than prescribed or for a longer period of time, these drugs can play havoc with your health and even lead you into the 
quicksand of drug addiction. There are numerous cases in which the patients get addicted to the drugs that are prescribed to them. The cases seem to get worse because the patients have the prescriptions by which they can easily get hold of drugs. The prescriptions serve an easy way of getting drugs. There is no one to put a stop to them. The patients can also supply these drugs to the other persons who are addicted. In this way, the chain grows. The patients themselves become drugs suppliers. With this starts the problem of doctor shopping. The patients visit many doctors to gain prescriptions so as to buy the drugs. The problem of doctor shopping is hard to avert as the transactions take place at a very personal level. Making hay while the sun shines, numerous pain management clinics have sprung up. These clinics dot the entire state of Florida. It is in these pain management clinics that the patients are given controlled drugs like oxycontin to control the pain.
Keeping all these information in mind, if you are one the patient who has to take these addictive drugs, you must be ware. These medicines can make you addicted to them. They are habit forming drugs and can get the better of you. The thumb rule to follow is to never share the addictive medicines with anyone who has a history of drug abuse behind him. If share the medicines, you might end up restarting the addiction in that person. You might end up supplying the drugs to that person. The next thing that you must remember is to take the correct and measured amount of drugs that is prescribed to you. Not a single day should you exceed the dose. You must let few close people know that you are taking these drugs so that they can keep a watchful eye on the dose and duration of the drugs. This will help you keep a tab on your doses. This will also help you keep a check on yourself so that you stride away from the problem of drug abuse.
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Pain management clinics and doctor shopping play havoc in Florida
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 01:24 Written by blogmaster Friday, 7 May 2010 02:05
Florida is a prominent state in America and boats of being developed and well planned. This state is a hot spot for tourists and is visited by uncountable tourists each year. On the façade, everything looks nice and bright but if one dwells a little inside the picture, one will get to see bleak colors of the problems that this state faces. The problems like 
drug abuse, doctor shopping, etc. have lead to a state of chaos. The scenario is taking turning out to be more than just a minor problem-it is affecting the whole state. If the problem is with drug abuse only, curbing the availability of the drugs will not help much because the addicts are finding newer ways of getting hold of the drugs. The newer ways are doctor shopping and many such methods by which the addicts get hold of the drugs. The drug addicts are having a ball with the easy availability of the drugs. Another problem faced in fighting this problem is the pain management clinics that are cropping up at an amazing pace. These pain management clinics are doing more harm than good. They have the authority to prescribe narcotic drugs like oxycontin. These drugs are very addictive and the people make use of these pain management clinics to get hold of these drugs to satisfy their addiction. The pain management clinics sometimes defy the rules and prescribe these drugs for the sake of money. This becomes an easy way to get hold of drugs. Another way that the addicts have started using is doctor shopping. This term is associated with the act of visiting numerous doctors for getting prescriptions of narcotics drugs. These prescriptions are then used for buying many drugs at the same time. These drugs are used to satisfy addiction. The drugs can be for selling or they can be for personal use as well. These problems are gaining momentum day by day and the people are getting caught in this web. The state government has a mammoth task in front of it. These problems are bigger than curbing smuggling because doctor shopping happens at a very personal level. Until and unless a track record of all prescriptions is not kept, the idea of curbing drug abuse will become unfathomable. Keeping a record of prescriptions will result in curbing the straight from the root. This will help in eliminating the problem that has played havoc with numerous lives.
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