Sarasota Man Arrested for Doctor Shopping

A Sarasota man is arrested for “doctor shopping” after not telling doctors he already obtained prescription narcotics from other doctors.

Michael Flanagan, 33, of the 3800 block of School Avenue, is charged with 14 counts of withholding information from a practitioner to obtain a controlled substance, according to the

Investigators with Sheriff’s Pharmaceutical Diversion Unit found that Flanagan had visited three different pain clinics in Sarasota, Temple Terrace and Egypt Lake in Tampa between April 2010 and July 2011, and was able to obtain approximately 11,580 pain killers: Xanax, Oxycodone, Oxycontin and MS-contin, the Sheriff’s Office said in a release. This equals about 772 pills a month.

In each case, Flanagan signed documents affirming that he understood he needed to inform the doctor of use of medications from other physicians and would not attempt to obtain any controlled substances from other doctors.

Flanagan first received prescriptions in Tampa at Kenaday Medical Clinic in Egypt Lake and PR Medical Clinic in Temple Terrace, but while he was a patient at Kenaday, he was also receiving prescriptions for similar drugs at Sarasota Pain Management Center where two of Kenaday’s doctors also worked, according to the probable cause affidavit.