title: Is it legitimate? Strategies for assessing questionable prescriptions.
abstract: Pharmacists are responsible to screen prescriptions for legitimacy. Pharmacists must be alert for forged or altered prescriptions. Pharmacists must strike a careful balance between diversion control and the medical needs of legitimate patients. Although regulatory scrutiny remains a concern for some practitioners, fear of investigation is not a valid reason to deny patients needed medication.
authors.affiliation: Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Vickie B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Seeger
authors.forename: Jesse C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Vivian
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005607:Fraud; D007885:Legislation, Pharmacy; D014481:United States