Ep #006: Can You Give Me an Opioid Refill Until I Find a New Doctor?

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SCOPE of Pain: Safe & Competent Opioid Prescribing Education

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When discussing tapering your patient's opioid due to lack of benefit, functional decline and apparent harm (she fell asleep while smoking), she angrily states, "I thought you trusted me. I thought we had a good relationship," and then asks, "Can you give me enough until I find a new doctor?"