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A prescription medication is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a medical prescription before it can be obtained.
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When a new patient comes into Dr.
Shawn Jones' office in Paducah, Kentucky complaining of pain and asks for a specific drug without talking about other symptoms, Jones gets suspicious."The first thing they say is they're in horrible pain and they need pain medicine," said Jones. "The other thing that gives it away is they want to tell you what works - they tell you they want Percocet. They don't talk about their symptoms - they don't say, 'Oh, two weeks ago I hurt my back.'"These are the types of red flags that can send Kentucky doctors to check a state database to see if a patient is "doctor shopping" for addictive painkillers.. A CDC report last year said 15,000 people died as a result of overdoses of prescription painkillers in 2008 - more than three times the number in 1999.Kentucky is a hot spot. Nearly 1,000 people in the state died from prescription drug overdoses in 2010, or about three a day, ranking it among the top states for such deaths.In America as a whole, about 12 milli...
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