A provider, prescribing pain medication to each patient, will be most concerned about which patient developing a substance use disorder?
A) A college student with migraine headaches who reports having experimented with marijuana in the past year.
B) An older adult patient with terminal cancer who requires twice the normal dose of morphine for pain relief.
C) A patient in moderate to severe pain after a total hip replacement who asks for pain medication an hour before the next dose is due.
D) A patient whose history indicates the use of prescription narcotic analgesics for back and headache pain.
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