Mom sells the pain med on the street. I know this from experince.
Yup, they are already medicated when they come in.
Before moving over to the OR my wife was the ER Director. The amount of people hitting the ER daily in search of pain med’s was astounding. They knew all the right complain’t to make and could walk away with a prescription for Hydrocodone and have them sold minutes after picking them up at the pharmacy. All the while stiffing the ER for the visit. A prescription for a dozen hydrocodones could net them 100.00 on the street, then turn that around into a heroin purchase. These are the regulars that constantly suck the life out of ER’s daily.