Nothing seemed to help the patient — and hospice staff didn't know why.They sent home more painkillers for weeks. But the elderly woman, who had severe dementia and incurable breast cancer, kept calling out in pain.The answer came when the woman's daughter, who was taking care of her at home, showed up in the emergency room with a life-threatening overdose of morphine and oxycodone. It turned out she was high on her mother's medications, stolen from the hospice-issued stash.Dr. [...]
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