Medical professionals cannot simply prescribe scheduled drugs to anyone and everyone who approaches them with the associated symptoms. They have to keep a watch out for false pretenses. Healthcare providers, hospitals, pharmacies and other entities that are licensed to dispense, administer or distribute CSA controlled substances are legally and morally bound to exercise extreme care and caution to ensure that these addictive and potentially hazardous drugs are not abused in any manner. Physicians are at the front line in this war against the abuse of controlled substances! And they are also the most susceptible to falling prey to unscrupulous individuals who try to acquire the scheduled drugs by hook or by crook. Think about it – it is difficult to get these drugs from pharmacies without the requisite prescription. Miscreants find it difficult to forge or tamper with the prescriptions. Stealing the drugs is not easy either as there are strict regulations governing the safe storage of ...