Mahwah, NJ
A 39-year-old female asked:
Saw pain doc today who prescribed percocet instead of my oxycodone bc i am exp bad side effects that i didn't get wpercocet but nurses wrote fill 9-14?
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Dr. Heidi Fowleranswered
Psychiatry 27 years experience
That may be the : case if the oxycodone was due to run out on 9/13. Now a days physicians have to be very cautious when prescribing narcotics. There are an extraordinary number of opiate related deaths in this country each year.
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