There's a lot of anecdotes in this thread about people being prescribed "too much". What would your anecdote be if your child was in severe pain after the surg

There's a lot of anecdotes in this thread about people being prescribed "too much". What would your anecdote be if your child was in severe pain after the surgery, occurring in the middle of the night, and you needed to get the meds after hours? What if you had to drive back in to get a paper script? What if you had to wait 2 days? I rarely (almost never as a radiologist now) write outpatient narcotic prescriptions anymore, but when I did, I often prescribed in a pattern so I could avoid people becoming uncomfortably symptomatic in an inconvenient time for them (and us). I'm not sure what the best situation here is, other than giving you the RX and telling you to not fill it?