How aggressive opioid tapering nearly drove an Oregon couple to suicide

In recent weeks, I ’ve covered two heavy topics — suicide in Oregon and opioid prescribing guidelines that have provoked outrage from pain patients. An email I received in response to one of the stories brought those two threads together in an intense way. I heard from Larry Gordon, who identified himself as a life-long Oregonian, a resident of Turner in Marion County. He and his wife Wendy have been married for 41 years. The two are in their early 60s. Larry's note landed after a blog I…
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