@sears I have no way of knowing. My PCP would not do it unless it becomes government/Big Pharma regulations. Then she would fight for me; I'm sure.
Carol

As usual, American Law Enforcement takes the easy route of perusing patient records (in specific cases) rather than make inroads on the street. Ugh. I worked at a plant where, for the first 2 years, we were trained in a specific building, and otherwise worked in our areas. When at that building, day after day, a bar had a drive up illegal drug thing going on. A car would pull up, a man come out, lean deeply into the passenger side window, then stand up and walk away. Police would drive by during this, never once seen them sitting nearby, watching, or stopping anyone. Sure, maybe it wasn't drugs, maybe a bookie, but the area is well known for drugs. Maybe they were monitoring it, maybe, maybe not.

Enter an ambulance, somewhere in the U.S., discovered to have the morphine being cut, I guess the drug was syringed from the vial, and saline substituted, maybe the vials were disappearing. The police chief examined the health records of the Fire Chief, found he had chronic pain, and in front of his neighbors, possibly in front of his kids, had him arrested because he had access to the ambulance.

No evidence, just looking through his health records. The Fire Chief, and his lawyer, presented the totality of his health records, electronic ones can be spotty, and the Fire Chief was acquitted of the theft.

I've taken Valium, Xanax, and now Klonopin, all my adult life. I took Valium too often, and had a rough time getting away from it, nothing dramatic, just refused to take it anymore, it was "as needed". Away from that, I did later take Xanax, but sparingly.

I learned to live with the anxiety, I learned to be tense, without that need of relief. But, infrequently, I'd take something. In more modern times, my doctor, at the time, would write for Klonopin 0.5 mg bid prn (Twice a day as needed). I never took more than half of one, he wrote for 60 pills with 2 refills. I used them so sparsely I'd struggle to remember to pick-up the first of 2 refills, never picked-up the second, because it would expire.

Now, getting 60 pills is a major problem, no one writes for refills, and I take less than 1/4 of 1 pill at bedtime every 10 days or so. And the one thing I'm tense about, after using these on and off for over 40 years, now I have to just about beg to get them. But I can buy unlimited amounts of alcohol and in some states buy Marijuana (I don't use it, this is hypothetical) but they'd have me believe I'm almost criminal for using Klonopin.