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Prescription Fraud

Many people are surprised to find themselves charge with a drug crime in Texas for possessing a prescription medication available for purchase at their neighborhood drugstore. Not everybody realizes that owning prescription medication is only legal if the prescription is written for him or her, personally. Prescription fraud is the illegal acquisition of prescription drugs for personal use or profit. This includes theft, burglary, backdoor pharmacies, and illegal importation or distribution of prescription drugs. It is also illegal to alter a prescription written by a doctor. It's possible to commit prescription fraud by forging prescriptions, going to several doctors to get multiple prescriptions (termed doctor shopping), stealing blank prescription forms, and also altering written prescriptions to increase the quantity.

If you have been charged with prescription fraud, you are facing serious consequences. Many times defendants in these cases are former patients who initially legally obtain these prescription medications, or are physicians and other medical personnel who are being accused of using their power to obtain or write prescriptions to abuse these controlled substances.  Depending upon the act of fraud and the substance being abused you could be facing felony charges that could grievously effect your future. A felony conviction in Plano could haunt your criminal record for years to come by limiting your employment opportunities or revoking your license to practice if you are a healthcare professional. It's important that you speak with a Plano prescription fraud defense lawyer as soon as you are charged so your attorney use as many defense strategies as possible to help you get your case dismissed, help get your sentence reduced, or possibly help obtain a pretrial diversion.

What Is a Pretrial Diversion?

A pretrial diversion is usually only for first-time offenders, and your lawyer can negotiate a deal in which you enter a guilty plea pending completion of a court-ordered agreement, which usually entails a drug treatment program. After successful completion of the agreed upon terms their case is dismissed and the person is not convicted of a crime. However, if the defendant violates the terms (for example, by failing a drug test) he or she will be brought back to court, convicted and sentenced.

Without savvy representation by a knowledgeable prescription fraud defense lawyer, you could miss out on programs like pretrial diversion. With over a hundred trial cases under his belt and years of drug crime defense experience, attorney Jason Zendeh Del Law wants to aggressively defend you and your prescription fraud case.