A patient who experienced injuries from a motor vehicle crash 6 months ago continues to request prescriptions for an opioid analgesic.When assessing this patient for opioid dependency which finding is the nurse least likely to observe?
A) The patient drops out of a Saturday night Bingo group.
B) The patient continues to manage to get to work each day.
C) The patient tried to quit using the opioid but couldn't stop thinking about it.
D) The patient has been to three or four physicians to obtain new prescriptions for the drug.
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