I now buy heroin on the street.”“You need to talk with veterans. Now I get high so I can walk.”AS DOCTORS TAPER OR END OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS, MANY PATIENTS DRIVEN TO DESPAIR, SUICIDE“All we’re asking is some relief. “My wife lives in extreme pain,” wrote Tom Walker of Lousiana. He was 76 with several health problems, one being chronic leg pain that started about 18 month prior to his suicide. For instance, in January the department became the first hospital system in the country to release its opioid prescribing rates.

Source: Fox News December 19, 2018 18:34 UTC