needleboy said:
DECEM-
YOUR WRONG
Doctors can prescribe any drug for a patient as long as it is MEDICALLY NECESSARY- not just because they want to. AS are Schedule 3 controlled substances- so they might as well be pharmaceutical cocaine.
It red flags to the DEA and will more than likely get reviewed, but will always get reviewed by an insurance company. A patients records must show a medical condition the indicates the prescribed meds.
so when i talked my doctor (the one i worked for and saw everyday for two years) almost into prescribing me testosterone to use as a male birth control, and she didn't even bat an eye (actually, she jumped on the chance to be the first military doctor to do it) - and started ordering tests (i.e. sperm count - cause we had to make sure that i was actually fertile to begin with) - is that showing a medical condition?? is it medically necessary to prescribe a young male testosterone as a birth control? didn't think so.
and no, i didn't get the prescription - it didn't get very far before the director of the medical clinic shot it down because if it went through - we'd have every service member walking around on test.
and the doctor - the one that i worked with very closely - the one who'd been a doctor for ten years - is the same one that told me that about the fda only approving the drug - not the use.
let's just say it's self pay - then no insurance company reviews/approves it.
also, who does the dea review and how does it get red flagged? does every pharmacy report to a central db at the dea?
maybe the rules/laws have changed. maybe it does get "red-flagged" - i just don't see how. can you explain further or give hard proof?
you would think that ronnie coleman would be red-flagger then? why wouldn't the dea just watch him for like a week - figure out who his source was - figure out who their's is - and bust them. i don't think the dea would give a fuck about one doctor treating 1-10 bb's with different anabolic agents - especially when the doctor doesn't have to report his tx to them - and the bb's could get their prescription at different pharmacies - or have their little sick sister pick them up.
i'm sorry needleboy, but the more i look at it, i fail to see how the dea could be red-flagged or would even care.
damn, sorry bout the long post.... i'm tired of writing.
like i said needleboy, i am open to this topic as i admit i don't know that much about it - i only know what that doctor told me and what i can speculate about the practices of the dea.