Letter to the Editor - Trapped by ambush in the opioid crisis

Dear editor,

I don’t like traps. I don’t appreciate an ambush.

Right now millions of Americans, some say up to 5 million, are trapped and being ambushed in the opioid crisis.

I listened to a woman tell her story the other night. She spoke about how she moved into the world of drugs much the same way that we see depicted on television. It seems glamorous. It seems like all successful people do it. They drink and smoke and eventually take drugs.

That’s when the trap is sprung, of course.

She told us about the pains and loss she had in her life including the loss of a child, her mot...