I once worked for a big wholesale drug company. Each day, I would have at least a million dollars in narcotic drugs to be delivered to various pharmacies. I must admit that I was armed, while making these deliveries and I did not care who knew it. Ampules of morphine, oxycodone and your name it, I delivered it.
In one of my drugstore deliveries, I began to see a pattern of possible abuse, by one medical doctor. Once a week, he would write a prescription for a bottle of 50 mg demerol. I asked around at the pharmacy he was using and some of the workers told me that they thought he had a drug habit and he was ordering the demerol for himself. I did some backtracking and discovered that this MD was ordering the demerol for himself.
Catching him was no big deal. His own prescriptions, written for himself, was self-incriminating. He was arrested and lost his license to practice.
Yes, this does happen. In this incident, I just happen to “catch on” to his illegal routine.