Along similar lines, The LA Times' series on opioid addiction was gripping. It offers a story of how some people fall in to worse and worse spirals.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

I hadn't seen that Cincinnati Enquirer article though, so thank you for sharing. I'm not looking forward to hearing about the suffering, but I feel the need to educate myself. I worry this is the new normal.

Edit: God, the pacing of that article...all the lives lost in short vignettes, names unknown, punctuated by daily death/overdose numbers for just one city? Horrifying when you realize what a tiny facet this represents of the national suffering due to this epidemic.