kimbuka -

If your friend's prescription was filled (and you indicated it was) it is very unlikely that her prescribing physician would ever find out that she'd altered the prescription. Unless your friend had been getting multple prescriptions or there was something else about this particular prescription that was suspicious, pharmacists would very rarely question the way the prescription was written after the fact. Usually, if they think the prescription has been altered in any way they will defer filling it right away until they call the dr. Sooo... I doubt your friend has anything to worry about.

In general, though, I agree with you - it is not a good idea to alter prescriptions! (My sister once changed "20 tablets" to "30 tablets" for some Ambien and got into quite a bit of trouble for it because the pharmacist could see that it looked fairly obviously like it had been erased and rewritten ... How stupid, huh?!} But just adding ES to Vicodin probably didn't attract any attention.

Your friend is lucky to have such a caring friend!!

tortie2
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