My mother’s pain has hovered over my entire life. As a child I heard her screams at night, accompanied her to hospitals, watched her careful pill counting with mounting anxiety as the end of the prescription approached. I saw how some people recoiled from her frantic energy in emergency rooms and on the street. Multiple sclerosis is a disease that, among other things, gradually wears away the insular lining of your nerves, leaving you a bundle of frayed misfiring signals. Through years of trial and error she has managed to finally find some relief from her pain with an extremely powerful drug that’s now becoming the focus of national attention.
Source: Gizmodo – How the Deadly Narcotic Fentanyl Changed My Mother’s Life for the Better