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One complicating issue is that this patient was a resident who does not have her own DEA number and is acting under her attending. I usually don't deal with chronic pain patients (and didn't in my residency), but during residency I could not write or e-scribe opioids for outpatient post-op pain--it had to be done through an attending's triplicate which they had to personally write. I know benzos are C-IV scheduled drugs which makes them less controlled than opioids, but I can't remember if they needed a triplicate for outpatient management. There's a chance that it's more on the attending than the resident, since the attending may have refused to fill meds with abuse potential for initial visit patients. A lot of people who don't deal with controlled meds avoid prescribing them because of all the litigation around them. I will avoid filling chronic pain meds since that's not my wheelhouse.