Host Lucien Graves examines a 1998 case where a teenage cancer patient's above-knee amputation caused severe phantom limb pain. Prescribed Percocet post-surgery, the patient escalated to 25 tablets daily, risking liver failure from acetaminophen toxicity, before hospitalization and methadone transition. A chilling study in opioid escalation and monitoring failures.

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