holic behavior is that I
was often praised and
rewarded for it, and
my peers were consis-
tently coming to me
when they needed
help. The workload
was unusually heavy,
though, even for
someone in a leader-
ship role like me, and
while it's not a guar-
antee, it is a clue that
someone might be
battling addiction.
2. Spike in usage.
My pharmacist
noticed that the
amount of fentanyl I
was ordering overall
had seriously spiked
in less than a year,
and since she rarely
dealt with me one on
one, her suspicions
were black and white
from the start, totally
objective. On paper,
changes in my sched-
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