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Years ago I was working as a pharmacist in a very busy pharmacy in a city center. This was during the opioid epidemic in America and being a high volume store, had a lot of regulatory oversight on our controlled substance dispensing.
One Friday evening a young kid came in with a prescription that he said was for his grandmother. It was for a lot of oxycodone from a city two hours away. He had two girls with him when he dropped off the prescription and had never filled with us before, and wanted to pay cash. We had a policy that we didn't fill prescriptions for maintenance controlled substances for new patients >100mi from our address. We only got so much of each controlled substance so we adopted the policy so we'd have enough for our regular patients. I told him we couldn't fill it. He started to get angry and mouth off but left.
Cut to Monday which was my next shift and there is a folder with the DEA logo on the front of it in front of my terminal. I ask what it is to someone who worked the weekend and they said an agent dropped it off. I open it and the only thing inside is a business card slotted into those slits you sometimes see on the face of one of the pockets. I call the number and after some introductions the agent asks me if I was the one who denied the prescription on Friday. I confirm and the guys says that it was part of a multi-jurisdiction sting operation to catch a mid-level dealer who was buying scripts from people. He told me I wasted a bunch of their time and next time to just fill it. I told him it's emphatically my job to not do that and that I didn't appreciate him using my store since we had a bunch of other issues that local police weren't dealing without him adding to it but he just hung up. Whatever.
My heart dropped when I saw that folder though and I'm sure that is what he wanted when he did it.
Wait, so the DEA agent essentially scolded you for NOT contributing to the problem and ordered you (well, tried to) to be part of the problem going forward? What a fucking joke. If he wanted you to participate in this super important multi-jurisdiction sting he could've contacted you (as he's clearly capable to do) beforehand. The only way the agency comes out of it not looking like a clown car is if there was no sting and he was an impersonator, with falsified documents and a fake folder, looking to establish a steady drug source. It might have been worth it to report it to his boss, but maybe I'm too European to properly understand all the risks involved in doing so.
Remember, the US government secretly poisoned alcohol during Prohibition and just said, "guess you shouldn't have drank it" when people got sick and died. Enforcement is its own end and purpose; improvement and protection of the lives of citizens is secondary at best.
Correct. He was clearly just mad that I frustrated his plans. I didn't even consider reporting it because it wouldn't have resulted in anything. We had a bad reputation with the DEA since we were a high volume pharmacy so we had more staff and high turnover. All that led to more than the average amount of employees stealing/selling drugs. We had some pretty sneaky ways of catching it and always reported but all that meant is more work for them and not much credibility.
That's really weird. Is it possible that wasnt a real agent just someone impersonating one?
It was legitimate. They arrested the kid later that day and it was in the news. I did have that thought though.
Also maybe cops shouldn't be taking drugs out of the metered and monitored supply lines
He asked you why you didn't help someone else commit a crime and you just let that shit go?
You should have been up his supervisor's ass, with a reporter on your left and a lawyer on your right.
Not saying anything is why these fucking Nazi pigs get to keep being Nazi pigs.
I get the sentiment, but it's not that simple. The kid picking up someone else's script isn't a crime. Me denying or filling the script is a professional discretion. Also the company I was working at would not have supported me.