Stories Related to Opioid Regulations Worry Chronic Pain Patients, Doctors

LONGVIEW (AP) — For more than 10 years, Shannon Greenwood took 16 opioid pills a day for her chronic pain. But over the last eight years, the 59-year-old Longview resident has cut the daily dose to two. “It was a long, hard road,” Greenwood said. “I was going up and down like a roller coaster, and it just ruins your life.

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