Thankfully, this article doesn’t end with a death, but it certainly carries an important lesson and personal story of opioid addiction. Anonymous former opioid user in upstate New York “I never woke up one day and decided that I wanted to become a drug addict. I was in college and working full-time when I stepped on an earring in my apartment. The earring pierced my left heel, and days later an abscess formed. With fevers above 102.5 F for several days, I went to the ER for treatment. I got IV antibiotics and hydrocodone. The infection cleared, and the pain ceased. I took the extra hydrocodone anyways. […]