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Hi Kat,   I tried doing a little research for you.  Try this web address:   https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=64B8-9.013   Florida rules are similar to Oklahoma's.  This comes from our Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure & Supervision:   Inappropriate pain treatment may result from physicians' lack of knowledge about pain management.  Fears of investigation or sanction by federal, state and local agencies may also result in inappropriate treatment of pain.  Appropriate pain management is the treating physician's responsibility.  As such, the Board will consider the inappropriate treatment of pain to be a departure from standards of practice and will investigate such allegations, recognizing that some types of pain cannot be completely relieved, and taking into account whether the treatment is appropriate for the diagnosis.   Pain should be assessed and treated promptly and the quantity and frequency of doses should be adjusted according to the intensity, duration of the pain and treatment outcomes.  Physicians should recognize that tolerance and physical dependence are normal consequences of sustained use of opioid analgesics and are not the same as addiction.   Physicians should not fear disciplinary action from the Board for ordering, prescribing, dispensing or administering controlled substances, including opioid analgesics, for a legitimate medical purpose and in the course of professional practice.    With regards to your doctor just "dumping" you..the Oklahoma Board states:   Once a physician undertakes treatment of a patient, he or she has a continuing legal duty to treat that patient until the need for his or her services is at an end or until the physician/patient relationship is terminated lawfully.  Physicians who improperly terminate a physician/patient relationship risk both civil lawsuits and charges of unprofessional conduct for patient abandonment.   A physician must exercise reasonable and ordinary care in determining when the physician's services are no longer needed.  Generally speaking, a physician must continue to provide services as long as the case requires it.   Unlike a patient, who may lawfully terminate the physician/patient relationship at any time, a physician may withdraw before the need for his or her services is at an end ONLY after giving the patient prior notice.  That notice must afford the patient ample opportunity to secure another equally competent physician prior to the withdrawal.   Try plugging into your search engine: physicians abandoning their patients in florida.  Or maybe physicians terminating a patient in florida, and see what comes up.  Hopefully you can find out that way.  I hope this helps.  Abby