This week, Dr. Pat has asked Megan Riddle, M.D./Ph.D., the chief resident in the psychiatry residency at the University of Washington, a graduate of the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program and member of the Women’s Voices’ Medical Advisory Board, to address the concerns of a woman suffering from chronic pain. She is confused and angry about the difficulty she had in obtaining prescription opioid medication that relieves her pain and that may have also caused her to become addicted to her pain medication.