can immediate family RX to a child or spouse?

[born2lose]

i know this is a naive question but ive gotten mixed answers and i trust certain people on here more than random googles...also, if it is legal, would it be a red flag at the pharm?
just curious,
b2l

[bronyraur]

I don't see why a doctor couldn't write a script for his/her spouse and/or child.

Certainly a controlled substance would get some attention though.

[corlene]

Ive received scripts for controlled meds from my aunt who is a doctor. I know there is no federal law prohibiting this, there may however be a state law.

[born2lose]

thanks for the responses, im particularly curious about an adult child getting a script from a parent in New York

[Black_Pony]

On the TV show lost, Jack uses his Dad's script pad to score Oxy. I'm not saying thats fact or anything, its a fictional show. Maybe thats a somewhat almost confirmation.

Why? Someone in the family a doctor? Lucky.

In fact, there used to be someone on the board who was paying for his kid to go to med school in exchange for lifetime scripts. So I'm pretty sure its all good.

[RobOC]

One of my friends is a cancer patient and her dad writes for norco all the time. She gets dillies but she has never said anything about him writing for any CIIs. I am not sure if that's because she is immediate family, if he just can't write for CII, or he just doesn't want to contribute to his daughter poppin dilaudid. But the answer is yes.

[allyouneedislove]

i know this is a naive question but ive gotten mixed answers and i trust certain people on here more than random googles...also, if it is legal, would it be a red flag at the pharm?
just curious,
b2l

yes, my parent is a medical doctor and has written the majority of my prescriptions in my lifetime, as well as my sister's and brother's rxs.
c II's even

[JonnyMohawk]

On the TV show lost, Jack uses his Dad's script pad to score Oxy. I'm not saying thats fact or anything, its a fictional show. Maybe thats a somewhat almost confirmation.

Why? Someone in the family a doctor? Lucky.

In fact, there used to be someone on the board who was paying for his kid to go to med school in exchange for lifetime scripts. So I'm pretty sure its all good.

haha I like how he is popping loads of oxy, and stealing it from the hospital.

he is one of us that jack shepherd.

he better watch or one day we all know it will end at the needle :D

[Black_Pony]

I know! Remember when he shoots all those people up with Charlie's heroin way back in the first season? I'm surprised now he didn't take any himself. Actually he doesn't become a junky until after he leaves the island. Isn't that how they're trying to make it seem?

haha I like how he is popping loads of oxy, and stealing it from the hospital.

he is one of us that jack shepherd.

he better watch or one day we all know it will end at the needle :D

[Suboxstitute]

Wow - my brother and sister in law are both physicians and they will NEVER EVER even in extreme cases write a script for anyone in the family. For anything but especially pain meds.

When our mom passed away (that very day and weekend of funeral) I was dealing with the most horrible tooth pain. (As soon as I got home the tooth was so bad and infected it had to be pulled).

I begged him to write me something (we have different last names since I am married, no one would have even known, he is licensed in the state we were in, no problems I could see) and he said NO WAY since he wasn't treating me, he couldn't write, and besides, he also said never to immediate family.

He is very uptight about all this shit and so his his wife; his wife is ten times worse. My other brother's significant other is a doctor in New York, and he writes stuff for family and friends all the time. He says doctors in the midwest are the most tightassed anywhere!

So my brother didn't give a shit that I was in REAL excruciating pain (believe me, getting high was the LAST thing on my mind). He would NOT write a script and has always told me it was illegal because he wasn't (a) treating me and (b) could not treat me since I was immediate family. So a catch-22.

Hmm. Liar.