Brava, Kelly Davio! This is a beautifully braided essay, and one that I wish I could prescribe to all medical providers and policy makers.

I wasn’t aware of the role of fentanyl in the overdose phenomenon before reading your essay. Someone is making a boatload of money off of that (gee, could they be friends with other people making boatloads of money?) while chronic pain patients like you and me get demonized.