You’ve worked a lot of jobs to make ends meet, construction, factory work, and some farm work. Each year as you get older, it seems you sustain another injury. You have broken several bones, torn ligaments, and had many days where ibuprofen just wasn’t enough. But you pushed on as you had a family to […]
You grew up knowing certain things about the substances circulating throughout your local Appalachian streets. Your dad had taken oxycodone, fentanyl, and many other forms of pain pills just to manage his constant back pain. After years of working in factories and mines, his body was giving out, but he knew he had to work […]
You walk into the quiet room to find your 52-year-old husband looking like a frozen statue. He is seated with his elbows flexed and fists clenched while his neck is held stiff in a bent position. He doesn’t move or speak, even when you call his name repeatedly. Attempts to touch or lightly shake him […]
