One way to say all this is, My mother was an opioid addict and she overdosed. Another way is, My mother was suicidal and she killed herself. Another way is, My mother was poor and ignored, dismissed, called hysterical and hypochondriac by doctors who believed instead their well-paid colleagues who spoke on behalf of Purdue Pharma, believed the FDA who renewed and renewed Purdue’s patent, and so despite her history of addiction, despite the fact that she was in recovery, that she had all those years sober, that she did not even have bananas flambé on Mother’s Day, her doctors put her on legal
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