Consider this. A young woman is prescribed opioids to manage the chronic pain she faces after a particularly painful car crash. Then, her prescription runs out. This could be due to her doctor wanting her to move onto a different pain management plan, or perhaps to...
We found him slumped over and unresponsive on a city corner, holding a burned-down cigarette in his hand. His heart had stopped; he wasn’t breathing. At the time, I only knew what he had told me on the phone: that he normally took percocet, but hadn’t been able afford...
This is a continuation of a previous post published on Robert’s blog. Let’s hop across the pond to France for a moment. Widely accepted as having one of the best healthcare systems in the world, France requires its citizens to enroll in government-funded...
Not too long ago, I struck up a conversation while waiting in line at the pharmacy counter. The woman I spoke to was middle-aged, with brown hair and tired eyes. This was around the peak of media controversy about the ACHA, so we ended up chatting about our respective...
It’s two in the morning and you’re sitting in an uncomfortable chair in the pediatrics ward, scared out of your mind. Your five-year-old daughter started coughing a week ago, but you figured that she had picked up a cold from another child at her kindergarten –...
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