Patient with worsening anxiety and abusing xanax from their PCP.

Long story short, woman with anxiety sees me for follow up. She had been getting xanax 1mg TID from her PCP but last visit she had told me she weaned herself down to half a tablet a day. This is a telehealth visit (which i generally prefer in person but oh well) and I ask her how many she has left and apparently she only has 9 tablets left, despite filling the medication 30 days prior for 90 tablets. I call her out that it would be impossible to have 9 tablets left if she was only using... Read more
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