Features Suggestive of Drug Seeking Behavior in Patient

• have a positive form of identfication?

• given false information (wrong address, birthdate, telephone number, etc)?

• claim to be from out of town?

• ask for an appointment at the end of day or after regular hours?

• insist on being seen immediately and having demands met?

• in a hurry?

• give a previous medical history that is vague?

• unwilling to give permission to get old records?

• claim that all records were destroyed in a disaster or fire?

• claim that medication or prescription were lost or stolen?

• show inconsistencies between complaints and clinical signs and symptoms?

• have little interest in being examined or having tests performed?

• report an allergy to undesirable drugs?

• request a drug by name or direct the conversation to a specific drug?