Drug fraud involves fraudulent actions related to drugs, such as using fraudulent prescriptions or altering drugs without the user’s knowledge. Prescription drugs are often targeted, and doctors may also commit fraud. Selling drugs that have been altered or mixed with other substances can also be considered drug fraud. All types of drug fraud are punishable by jail time.
When a person engages in fraudulent actions in relation to some type of drug, it is referred to as drug fraud. For example, drug fraud can occur when a person uses a fraudulent prescription to obtain a drug. A person may also commit drug fraud by selling drugs, even legal ones, that have been altered without the user’s knowledge. For example, fraud can occur when a person adds baby powder to a drug. In most places, all types of drug fraud are punishable by jail time.
Prescription drugs are often, but not always, the target of drug fraud, and there are a variety of ways that fraud can occur. For example, a person may commit drug fraud by using another party’s identity to obtain a prescription drug. An individual may also commit prescription drug fraud by obtaining a prescription drug and forging a prescription. Similarly, a person may be guilty of committing prescription fraud if they legitimately obtain a prescription from a doctor, but then change the prescription to get a different drug, different dosage, refills, or another amount of drug. An individual may also be guilty of fraud if they pose as a doctor to confirm a prescription.
Interestingly, it is not always consumers who commit this type of fraud. In some cases, doctors do it too. For example, a doctor may pose as one of his patients to obtain a prescription drug for his own use. He may also do so in order to obtain larger quantities of drugs which he intends to sell illegally.
A person can also commit this type of fraud by selling a drug that has been altered or corrected. For example, filling a prescription drug capsule with powdered milk or another substance may be considered drug fraud; this is usually true regardless of how much of the prescribed medication remains in the capsule after it is added.
Interestingly, a person can also be guilty of drug fraud if they hook up an illegal drug with another substance. For example, if a person contracts cocaine with baby powder, he may be guilty of fraud in addition to the crime of possession and sale of the illicit substance. The same is true if a person is selling marijuana and surreptitiously adds oregano or another substance instead of just selling the marijuana.
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