At 16, Victoria McCulley had major jaw surgery over Thanksgiving break of her junior year at Denham Springs High School. Her mother, Marilyn McCulley, said she administered her daughter’s pain medication as prescribed.
But the doctor’s aftercare instructions did not include any advice on weaning the teenage girl off the opioids.
It was 2010, and the idea of her daughter developing an addiction to a prescribed medicine wasn’t something McCulley thought she needed to be concerned about…