Every week we seem to get a new and more disturbing stat about the impact of the opioid epidemic. But there’s another side of the story. WaPo on Unintended Consequences: Inside the fallout of America’s crackdown on opioids. “The story of prescription opioids in America today is not only one of addiction, overdoses and the crimes they have wrought, but also the story of pain patients … and their increasingly desperate struggles to secure the medication.”