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Medication must be used as prescribed and directed unless discussed with your provider. It is life threatening to chew or take a partial tablet of a long acting medication. Increasing your dose without close supervision of your provider could lead to drug overdose, causing severe sedation, respiratory depression and death.
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If you have a reaction to your medication DO NOT FLUSH IT OR THROW IT AWAY. You may be required to bring the remainder to the office to replace with a new prescription.
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Per the Board of Medical Examiners Regulations, Sec. 1 Chapter 630 and our office policy, controlled substance medications are to be obtained from only one provider.
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You should discuss any medication changes with your provider at your appointments and inform them of any new medication allergies.
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Allow for 3 WORKING DAYS for preparation of all refill prescriptions. If someone is to pick up a written prescription for you, they must be on your HIPAA release.
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Please check with pharmacy to see if they have a NEW prescription on file (even if the medication bottle has 0 refills) as our electronic prescriptions are filed that way.
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Lost, stolen or misplaced prescriptions or medications may not be replaced. Early requests for refills will not be provided unless you have called and discussed this prior to running out of medication. Selling medication or sharing medication with family, friends, or any other person is illegal and will not be tolerated. You should protect and care for your medication as you would any extremely valuable possession. If you run out of your medication, either because of poor planning or because of taking in excess of what was prescribed, you are responsible for the consequences, including poor pain control and any withdrawal symptoms.
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Notify your provider if you are pregnant.
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The use of alcohol or recreational drugs while on opioids or other controlled substances is not allowed. Our office will not provide medications under these circumstances.
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Philip Malinas M.D. & Associates reserves the right to Drug Screen ALL patient randomly to ensure medication compliance. Failure to provide at sample the time it is requested could result in termination from the practice and no further medications to be ordered.