Thread: IndyChannel... Pharmacist, Optometrist Face Felony Drug Charges

from IndyChannel.Com: A Kokomo pharmacist and an optometrist face felony drug charges after police say they wrote and filled phony prescriptions.

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Police said they also learned that Montgomery was obtaining OxyContin under a legitimate prescription and distributing the drug in Grant County.

OK, so I wonder who the Doc was that wrote 'supposedly' legitimate prescriptions to (former) Doctor Montgomery for Oxycontin and why?

Police know full-well there are doctors who write these scripts as if they were candy. Aren't they as culpable as Montgomery and Allion?

NIK

The recession has hurt everybody. The Doctors are losing money and are just doing some creative marketing. I think because they are not shooting anybody or doing drive bys they just aren't very high on the cops radar.

Originally Posted by Grumpy

The recession has hurt everybody. The Doctors are losing money and are just doing some creative marketing. I think because they are not shooting anybody or doing drive bys they just aren't very high on the cops radar.

Some docs have been doing this in Kokomo for many, many years. It didn't start with the recession.

The police know who they are... but it takes State and Federal cooperation for a successful prosecution against a licensed MD.

Still, the number of addicts they have created and the crimes they've caused over the years are countless.

I'd like to know what licensed MD's were prescribing this stuff to Montgomery... and why. Was it an honest mistake they were writing scripts for very powerful narcotics that later ended up in the hands of God-knows-who in Grant County?

Are they that poor as physicians they could not know Montgomery might have been a hopeless addict himself, who would transfer his prescribed (supposedly legitimate) medication to others?

It's time to know...

NIK

No one knows better than a doctor about the effects of drugs. I can only wonder about why they would jeopardize their careers or their lives over script writing. They surely can't make big money for just writing the scrip as compared to the money gained by doctoring.

Maybe they are educated and still just butt stupid.

Originally Posted by Grumpy

No one knows better than a doctor about the effects of drugs. I can only wonder about why they would jeopardize their careers or their lives over script writing. They surely can't make big money for just writing the scrip as compared to the money gained by doctoring.

Maybe they are educated and still just butt stupid.

In my opinion, they do it because they're crappy doctors that can't get patients any other way.

... and they've been doing it for a very long time. They're nothing more than sanctioned dope peddlers, in my opinion.

The docs who gave Montgomery the Oxy were doing so for a reason that's been repeated thousands of times in Howard County.. because they can... and because a lot of people wouldn't become their patients unless they did.

The BIGGEST dope trend on the market is this stuff. Does anyone think someone is robbing the quantities necessary from warehouses or the manufacturing plants... in some Mission Impossible scheme?

The bulk of the dope is coming from physicians prescription pads... and can be easily tracked through the DEA database.

No, they're not selling it on the street... instead, they're selling it in their examination rooms.... to whatever desperate addict will pay, and pay, and pay them some more.

NIK

A reader sent us this link from the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette published just last week:

Legal opiates now tied to more deaths than heroin, cocaine combined

Unlike marijuana or cocaine, prescription narcotics are not coming in illegally from other countries by the plane or truckload. Instead, they're bought at Target or CVS or Walgreens, after your doctor writes a prescription.

.. and yet no one wants to address WHAT doctors are writing these prescriptions.. or why?

Tens of thousand of people get addicted to this stuff... many go on to become criminals... and many (otherwise healthy patients) die.

Yet, in good old Kokomo... the Chief of Police worries about kids smoking potpourri.

Ridiculous. In this case, you have what was once a responsible eye doctor getting scripts he obviously didn't need (because they ended up in other hands) and no-one wants to know how that happened?

If your kid is smoking potpourri... well, that's scary. If you kid is snorting or whatever they do with Oxycontin... it's absolutely addictive and possibly deadly.

What 'problem' would we like to address first?

NIK

Where does the buck stop? Who actually sets the priorities of the law enforcement groups?

Originally Posted by Grumpy

Where does the buck stop? Who actually sets the priorities of the law enforcement groups?

Read the arrest reports for awhile. It's easy to see that law enforcement always goes after the easy arrest. Our jail is full of people who committed minor infractions , or simply made a mistake. It looks good politically, and gives the public the illusion of being protected. Besides, it provides jobs for a lot of law enforcement personnel, as well as the need for a lot of otherwise worthless lawyers.........