Medication and substance use and misuse Late one evening, an elderly cancer patient is brought to the emergency department by her adult daughter. The daughter is concerned about her mother's pain level, and in spite of giving her mother Percocet during the day as directed, her pain has gotten worse. She is unable to reach her mother's oncologist and was advised to bring her mother in. The daughter states that until today the medication had been working and that she brought it with her. On examination, the emergency room nurse and doctor realized the pills aren't Percocet and asks the daughter if anyone in the home could have stolen and replaced them with something else. The daughter replies that the only other person in the home is her teenage son, who helps care for her mother in the afternoons. Law enforcement is called and a report is filed; law enforcement advises the daughter they will be coming to the house to speak with her son and not to leave him alone with his grandmother's medication. Medication diversion can occur even with trusted family members. The first indication that this has taken place may be a lesser degree of a medication's
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