Re KAQ, one valium & one screwdriver?....Not sure how that's been substantiated....Believe me, I'm NOT condoning use of benzo's w/ETOH AT ALL...and I have a record of stringently warning against this combo...but it's exactly this type of exagerated accounts that sometimes cause the 20 somethings to ignore such warnings....Now, if there is some news article that reported KAQ's blood alcohol level at the time of admission & level of Benzo's, that will substantiate this, I stand corrected...but I'm inclined to think it was a more substantial qauantity of either or both...but I personally DON'T know for sure. And I'm with Trampy on the phone call being insufficient for establishing a doctor/pt relationship. A face to face visit is what the spirit of the law intends if the letter of the law appears vague, I don't think it is....and I think most doctors would agree. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable putting my license on the line with another doctor's notes regarding a physcial exam I had no part in performing or witnessing....There's a reason for a face to face consultation and an actual "laying on of hands" examination...and for those who believe it's unnecessary, that lack of understanding only empahsizes their own medical naiveté. But a phone consultation that's under 5 minutes & one or two pages of "records" CLEARLY do not equal a pt/doctor relationship and if there were some adverse reaction occurs, I'd HATE to be the doc sitting in the chair marked "defendant". Will the DEA come after patients of US OP's? I doubt it