I (enby22) went to the er with my husband (24m) about a week and a half ago due to me having extreme abdominal pain and unusual vaginal bleeding. The er doctor told the nurse to give me fentanyl but after the nurse told us it was fentanyl we declined saying I have severe negative reactions/allergies to opiates. The nurse was kind enough to offer a non opiate pain reliever (it didn’t touch the pain but I was willing to take the pain without opiates). After all was said and done the er doctor still pushed that I should have taken the fentanyl despite my husband and I’d objections and even went as far as pushing an opiate pain reliever during discharge and vehemently ignored my protests that I didn’t want tramadol. Her words exactly were “It’s a mild opiate, you shouldn’t have any negative reactions.” Yet in the past I’ve been prescribed hydrocodone and other opiates and had severe reactions and could not function. I’m also at a higher risk for addiction with drugs and alcohol due to past family history of addictions and having my own with nicotine, alcohol, mj, and gambling. The er nurse who took care of me removed the tramadol prescription but the er doctor still put it through and now I’m sitting here with a bottle of opiates that could harm my life and I’m trying to LEGALLY dispose of them. But I’m wondering if I have any legal standing to medical malpractice/negligence due to the fact the er doctor kept pushing opiates on me. My husband all but yelled at the er doctor for trying to push tramadol during discharge but refused to listen to me or him and still put it through. I felt like I was seen as a drug seeking person when in fact I was just trying to seek help as to why I was in so much pain (on a scale of 1-10 I was sitting at a 14 for 5 hours that day and my pcp prescribed me gabapentin to help with any pain due to endometriosis and pcos but it didn’t help at all) and why I was bleeding outside of my regular menstrual cycle. My obgyn/pcp had also advised me to go to their er because of the pain and bleeding. I wasn’t going in there to be viewed as an opiate addict, I went in there from my doctor’s advice. I live in central New Mexico and am on Medicaid to give any sort of perspective.