re: "The Pharmacist"... Netflix Documentary Premiered Today!

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Even Dan, Sr's tiny hometown pharmacy had the ability to print off a report of all OxyContin prescriptions with a column including the prescribing doctor.

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This may be enough info to get an investigation going, but it isn't the evidence you need in a courtroom. A defendant (prescribing doctor) could claim this was falsified.

It's easy to look from the outside and see something wrong is being done. The bar is pretty high to be able to prove it in court which should be the ultimate goal in any investigation.

A proper investigation would have to be able to prove every aspect of what was going on. They'd need the scripts, videos of the 'patients' going in and out, undercovers getting scripts, and proof it was actually the doctor writing the scripts. I know a dentist that caught a worker calling in pain scripts for friends using the dentist's DEA number.

You also don't rush something like this and arrest someone for a handful of offenses. It's better to prove the severity and number of crimes to get the harshest sentence. If someone were arrested over a few questionable scripts, they could possibly plead it down. Would they even lose their medical license? How long before they are back to doing the same shite?