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Is there really anything wrong with letting my spouse take one of my prescription opioid pain pills because she has a migraine?

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Is there really anything wrong with letting my spouse take one of my prescription opioid pain pills because she has a migraine?

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Yes. When a pain medicine is prescribed for you, your doctor prescribes a dose that will work for you to manage the pain. The doctor or pharmacist identifies possible drug interactions and determines if there are other health conditions that would impact the safety of the medicine. When someone else takes a prescription pain medicine that was not prescribed to them, there is a danger of the medicine being too much for them or bad drug interactions may occur with other medicine that the person is taking.