Prosecutors seeking Tiger Woods' prescription drug records

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Florida prosecutors are seeking Tiger Woods’ prescription records from a pharmacy following his car crash and subsequent arrest for suspicion of DUI.

A motion for subpoena filed Tuesday in Martin County Court is seeking information from Lewis Pharmacy in Palm Beach regarding any medication given to Woods from the beginning of the year until March 27, the day that Woods clipped a truck and rolled his own vehicle. According to the filing, the details prosecutors are seeking includes “date and time prescription was filled, type of prescription, number of pills in each prescription, the dosage amount, all special instructions on how to take the medication, date of next refill, all warnings, including but not limited to operating a motor vehicle while taking the prescription.”

Woods’ attorneys expressed the golfer’s “intent to participate in discovery” in the case.

Woods was found carrying two hydrocodone pills in his pocket after the crash, an opioid typically prescribed for severe, chronic pain. According to the affidavit, Woods told a sheriff's deputy he had been looking at his cell phone and changing the radio station, and failed to notice the vehicle ahead of him had slowed at the time of the accident. The deputy, assessing Woods at the scene, observed a number of impairment indicators, including profuse sweating, bloodshot and glassy eyes, lethargic and slow movements and persistent hiccups throughout the encounter

Woods denied consuming alcohol but acknowledged taking prescription medication "earlier in the morning," telling the deputy, "I take a few." He also disclosed a medical history that underscores the severity of his physical condition with seven back surgeries and more than 20 leg operations, factors that influenced how deputies administered field sobriety exercises.

Following the arrest, Woods announced that he is stepping away from golf to seek treatment. Last week a judge allowed the 15-time major winner to travel to an international facility. Woods’ attorney argued the relocation was a matter of medical necessity, citing an "urgent need for a level of care that cannot safely or effectively be done within the United States" given that Woods' privacy had been repeatedly compromised.