Desperate drug addicts are heading to emergency room, using tooth pain as an excuse to score powerful painkillers and putting doctors in a difficult position.
If you develop an after-hours toothache and head to the emergency room in search of relief, you may have a hard sell on your hands. What’s the problem? ER docs are being inundated with fake patients complaining of tooth pain in hopes of scoring some prescription narcotics to feed their drug habit. This growing trend means that patients in legitimate pain may be turned away empty-handed. (more…)
