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‘I just need an opiate refill to get me through the weekend’
- Correspondence to Dr Dennis John Kuo, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of California, San Diego CA 92130, USA; dekuo{at}ucsd.edu
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‘I just need an opiate refill to get me through the weekend’
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- Received August 7, 2018
- Revised October 24, 2018
- Accepted February 3, 2019
- First published February 22, 2019.
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March 22, 2019
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