VICTORIAN pharmacists are being warned to monitor fentanyl prescriptions after a number of doctored scripts were successfully presented in pharmacies across the State.
In an alert issued by the Victorian Pharmacy Authority (VPA) earlier this month, pharmacy owners have been told to ensure employee pharmacists are aware that the fraudulent scripts have generally been for higher dose patches, usually Durogesic.
The VPA also noted that initial handwritten forgeries were first noted on stolen prescription pads from local and interstate doctors, but computer-generated prescriptions have also been presented with phone numbers of the offenders or their associates, rather than a legitimate clinic, so pharmacists who try to check the validity of the scripts call an accomplice of the "patient", and are told they are legitimate.
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