Again, there is no simple answer to these types of questions.

That said, I don't think the Fed's are actively monitoring her or for that matter anyone's scripts; there is just too much volume.

I know someone who stole a prescription book from a doctor and forged quite a large number of Oxy/Percocet/Hydro/you name it prescriptions. At one point she was up to 10 Perocet's a day! She was filling the prescriptions at different local pharmacies. And she never got caught. Now this is obviously a major federal offence.

Please note I am in no way condoning this; her life is messed up big time currently due to her addition to pain killers. She is really like a heroin addict stealing for her fix. It’s sad.

In any case, of course her example is no guarantee of anything but my point is I think too many people here have been reading too many George Orwell books. The government doesn’t have the manpower or money to do this kind of stuff except when they are targeting someone.

Worst case scenario: She would get one of those "warning" visits by the DEA. Now, at that point she will quite clearly be watched and if she continues she could get into some real trouble….

But I think, like the woman I know, your ex’s biggest problem is her addiction. If you want to help her don’t scare her with threats of DEA raids, but try to get her to realize her problem and help herself. Not easy, I know, having been there myself on both ends of addiction problems! She has to want to do it. Sometimes, unfortunately, as much as we hate to see people we care about go through this, it takes hitting some kind of personal “rock bottom” before they take action. Rock bottom doesn’t have to mean they become a homeless addict; it sometime just takes an event (such as an arrest or loss of job or health issue) to get someone to realize they need to make a change.

Good luck.