When Your Medical Professional Steals Your Pain Medication
When you're in pain, the last thing you expect is the medical professionals caring for you to short your pain medication in order to feed their own drug addiction—unfortunately, this happens more often than many people realize. This is what you should know about "drug diversion" involving painkillers—and what you can do if it happens to you.
The most vulnerable are the ones likely to suffer.
The most likely victims of prescription drug theft are people who are simply too ill to realize what is happening to them—which means that medical professionals desperate to feed their own addictions are likely to target the elderly, patients in surgery, patients who have recently had surgery, and those in critical or acute conditions.
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