Work With a Drug Attorney and Protect Yourself from Prescription Drug Charges

As a California drug attorney, I regularly see people charged with crimes that they did not commit.  This is, unfortunately, all too common as police continue the war on drugs.  In this war, the most common victim is regular people just trying to live their lives.  While the police arrest the easy targets, drug dealers continue to roam the streets.  Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you are immune to being arrested for drug possession.  Instead, protect yourself by taking precautionary measures.

Arrests for possession of prescription drugs continue to mount and very often the people arrested are completely innocent.  As an example, there was a case in Georgia where a girl was arrested after the police found methamphetamine in her car that had been prescribed to her.  She did not have her prescription in her possession, so the officers assumed she was committing an illegal act. Officers also found a spoon in her possession.  Yes – a spoon.  She explained that she had used it to eat lunch, but they didn't believe her and decided that she had been creating methamphetamine. 

She argued in defense of these allegations and explained that she was innocent but was still arrested and sentenced by a judge to drug counseling pending trial.  Even though she had not been proven guilty, she was still required to attend drug counseling and, when she could not attend the counseling appointments, was arrested and put in jail for a month.  During this time, she also lost her job.  Eventually, the lab results came back, and it corroborated her story that the spoon was used to eat lunch and contained no drug residue.  As a drug attorney, we encounter cases like this on a regular basis where an innocent person becomes a victim of the war on drugs. 

Another reason that people are often arrested illegally is because they have prescriptions in their possession that belong to someone else.  This is fairly easy to do when you think about it.  For example, if you borrow your roommate's car and you are pulled over for speeding and the police ask to search the vehicle.  If you allow the search and they find prescription medication in the glove box, you could be arrested.  Even if the medication is in the name of the person that owns the car, you could still go to jail.  This may seem unfair, and it is, but the police have the right to do this and often do.  

As a drug attorney, we recommend that you take steps to protect yourself.  One of the first things you should do is be cautious of what you do and say around the police.  Do not mention anything that could be considered incriminating and prompt a search of your vehicle.  Do not give them permission to do a search of your car or home.  Instead, ask them to produce a warrant and call a lawyer. Even if you think that you have nothing to hide, the police will often find something that they will use to incriminate you.

Whenever in doubt, call an attorney so that you don’t become another victim of the war on drugs.