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Sunlei

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5. didn't the DEA uncover a lot of RX drug fraud using those records.?

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Wed Sep 25, 2013, 11:54 AM

Sep 2013

some huge frauds with the VA pain medications. Small fraud like RX drug sellers visiting multi Doctors to get an excess of scripts.

I think, was it Rush L.? caught in that net of going to many Doctors for the same med.

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DEA Thinks You Have 'No Constitutionally Protected Privacy Interest' in Your Prescription Records [View all] Newsjock Sep 2013 OP

It is easier to explain after the fact, than to get permission before. RC Sep 2013 #1

You don't have to quarter soldiers in your home either. JoeyT Sep 2013 #9

Of course they think that. And they use NSA surveillance info, too. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #2

DEA: Our mission is to prove every bad thing said about the war on drugs true nt geek tragedy Sep 2013 #3

DEA isnt the only one to have access. broiles Sep 2013 #4

didn't the DEA uncover a lot of RX drug fraud using those records.? Sunlei Sep 2013 #5

I wonder if this is covered under HIPPA? n/t hootinholler Sep 2013 #6

The fuckers are attempting a run-around on HIPPA, using DevonRex Sep 2013 #8

FUCK THE DEA AND ALL OTHER AUTHORITY CRAZED ASSHOLES!!! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #7

Course not. How else are they supposed to nab dangerous criminals like Richard Paey Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #10

And the contempt toward the proles deepens... woo me with science Sep 2013 #11

The DEA should be dissolved. Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #12