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Reply 1 Assess the patient’s history and define precipitating factors that increase and decrease the pain, pain onset, and pain medication that has helped in the past. Determine history of addiction. Obtain a urine drug test (UDT). A negative UDT for a patient-reported to be taking pain medication is suspicious; Negative results do not always indicate diversion. A complicated issue may be present, like misuse […]