The information in this section will help you prepare for your surgery. Read through this section when your surgery is scheduled and refer to it as your surgery date gets closer. It contains important information about what you need to do before your surgery.
Under federal and state drug laws, the government can charge a person for playing a part in the cultivation or manufacture of a controlled substance. Cultivation includes growing, possessing, or producing naturally occurring elements in order to make illegal controlled substances.
A doctor that has examined you can prescribe it. A doctor that just gave it too you without physical exam, and without following up with you, and without justifying it in the chart would be committing a felony. It is a controlled substance, that is why. It is not supposed to be prescribed beyond 3 months.