She couldnt afford her birth control? I doubt it. Junkie, thief? more like it. Makes me so sad and angry at the same time.

Does anyone know the penalty for this act? It's likely that you will be caught if you do this- the pharmacies can easily verify a signature and they are doing so.

First offense, up to 3 years and $5,000 fine. Repeated offense, up to 3 years and $25,000 fine.

The "war on drugs" has corrupted cops and the justice system, resulted in warfare in the streets, and all those prisons are expensive to operate. I think of drug abuse as evolution in action, and I think it oughta be legal.

On the other hand, if the drugs were antibiotics, misuse results in resistant infections that everyone else has to deal with, and that needs to be dealt with sternly.

I suspect the judge will come down hard on her if it's a scrip for Vicodin, go easy on her if it's a scrip for Keflex, just the opposite of what I would do.

Why no penalty for keflex? Just because it's an antibiotic, doesn't mean it will help anything. There are 3 types of antibiotics, gram positive, gram negative and gram neutral. If you take the wrong one, you might as well take Tylenol.

You have it backwards; I figure the judge would come down harder on morphine or dexedrine; I would come down harder on an antibiotic. If you misuse recreational drugs, you're hurting yourself, but misuse of antibiotics affects everyone's health. There's a bit of the puritan in our drug laws; if someone is enjoying himself, we make it illegal, because the gummint owns your body, not you.

Gram-negative bacteria have an outer membrane on the cell wall, and Gram-positive bacteria do not. Narrow-spectrum antibiotics are effective against one or the other. Keflex, however, is effective both against Gram-positive bacteria such as strep, staph, and enterococcus and against Gram-negative bacteria such as e. coli, klebsiella, and proteus.

And I wouldn't categorize Tylenol as innocuous. It's awfully easy to overdose, and the consequences are devastating. In the UK, manufacturers can't legally package more than 12 paracetol (acetaminophen) pills for sale to consumers. I'm not sure why anyone takes Tylenol at all. It has no anti-inflammatory action, and its ability to kill pain ranks right up there with M&Ms. If you can't take enteric-coated aspirin, you'd be better off biting down on a bullet.