Pain and Abel

“Most of us also know about the lawsuits against Big Pharma that forced changes in how painkillers are marketed and prescribed. Please do not think this means justice has been served. If you came to visit me, I could walk you down our country roads and point out all the houses where grandparents are raising little ones whose parents are incarcerated, sick or dead of addiction. The road to recovery here will be longer than my lifetime. Of all the stories I heard when I sat down to listen, the hardest to bear was this one: ‘It started when I was in my mother’s womb.'” Barbara Kingsolver in the NYT (Gift Article): The Opioid Crisis Never Ended. It Was Inherited by the Children. (This problem can’t be solved by eliminating small boats in the Caribbean.)