What The Opioid Epidemic Really Looks Like

I was listening to an NPR story about the opioid epidemic the other day. They were chatting with an artist who placed an 800-pound steel heroin spoon on the footsteps of a Big Pharma building. He was protesting drug companies paying doctors to prescribe opioids, which becomes the gateway to heroin.

I thought of my father. I was 8 when his addiction began…