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Yea you're going nowhere after a pound of morphine, I tell you hwhat.

Oh? You won’t be dining in with us this evening?

Central EU, I get my prescriptions on paper. They also send them digitally to some system so I can simply walk into a pharmacy and pick up my stuff using me e-ID.

There was a time when all you needed to call in a prescription in Denmark, was the doctors authorization number... Which was publicly available. Sure if you called in a prescription at a pharmacy across the country or sounded suspicious, the pharmacy would make a call back, but other than that all you had to do was pick a doctor in an area with lots of other doctors and near a large pharmacy, and you'd get whatever you liked.

It must have been so for +10 years before a journalist and a doctor blew it up, by having the journalist phone in prescriptions for morphine, barbiturates, and other recreationally applicable substances. I don't know if a doctor can still phone in prescriptions, but the immediate stop gap was to only accept prescriptions accompanied by the doctor's personal, and crucially private, SSN.

Most prescriptions aren't on paper anymore though. I have heard that Japan (a very tech savvy country) is actually worse than us with checks and faxes and certain other low/old tech solutions. Not sure if that is true but either way I don't think the US is unique in this stuff.

His pad was stollen, baked into a traditional German Christmas cake.

According to the snopes article that someone else linked in this thread, mofine is spelled incorrectly on purpose. This is a make believe story with overt racist undertones; the "r" sound in morphine has been dropped to imply that the rx thief is a black person.

Well it wasn't signed with doctors handwriting pgp, so it was sus

It used to be fairly normal, the pharmasists knew the various doctors in the area, and they also know what is a reasonable prescription. If there was any doubt, they'd contact the doctor before dispensing the drugs. I had the 'interesting' experience of having to go to multiple pharmacies, filling part of the total prescription at each, when I tried to fill a largeish morphine prescription for a family member. There'd been some sort of issue at the main supplier, and none of the induvidual pharmacies had much stock left. It was resolved a few dats later fortunately.

Things are a lot more digital now-a-days, which hopefully makes fraud less of an issue, and definitely makes getting medicines easier.

There are quite a few special requirements that need to be met for narcotics to be dispensed. Can they be ignored? Yup! Also, there should be some numbers run first and in many states an online check is required as well.

If you start thinking about it, most security and well being norms are just protected by people that believe in the social norm behaving correctly.

Why can't you go behind the counter, enter the kitchen and pee in a McDonald's hamburguer? Not due to some law of nature or magic force field, but because the workers (or security guard) won't let you. Why won't they let you? Due to a systematic belief system on the entity "McDonald's", their job, what's right and wrong, etc.

But they could simply let you. A banker could let you take a few $100 bills. The consequences are almost entirely based on social rules.

True or not, I would argue.

100 pills of 30 mg morphine each cost 36 $, that’s 3 g. So 1 g is 12 $.

One pound is around 450 g. So it’s about 5000 $ total.

A decent amount of money, but if you resell it on black market you can make a big profit.

United Health Care's response to this prescription:

"Nah, we ain't paying that. We've determined the fair and reasonable rate is a stick to bite down on; don't be a pussy."

I'm guessing, the RX Pad can be used to print a prescription on a piece of paper?

RX as opposed to TX. Receiver and transmitter in radio communications