Epidemic of Parents trying to get younger kids on narcotics

In the last year, I have seen a decent number of patients from the 18-25 year age range with literally zero objective pathology that appear to be unable to tolerate any non narcotic medications for their "pain" state. Of course, I immediately drug test them and send them to our psychiatrist while telling them narcotic medications are NOT a good solution for this problem (zero of them have gotten ANY scripts from me for any pain meds). Most of these patients UDS's are positive for... Epidemic of Parents trying to get younger kids on narcotics
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