Opioid Rehab: When You Fear Running Out More Than Pain

There’s outpatient rehabilitation clinic a quiet moment on the edge of every taper, every refill cycle, every day that starts earlier than you meant to wake up. It’s not the pain rehab for alcoholism that gets you out of bed. It’s the fear of running out. If you know that feeling, you’ve already understood something complicated about opioid dependence: it stops being about relief, and becomes about not getti