Painful Choices, Seniors and Prescription Drugs

Leigh Daughtridge

Copley Chicago Newspapers / Fox Valley Publications

Pain, Every few months, Jean Justic must receive a cortisone epidural at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center for pain management. 'There are times when I'd like to throw all this medicine out the window,' she says. 'I get so tired of it all, but it helps me walk.'

Leigh Daughtridge, "Painful Choices, Seniors and Prescription Drugs," in POYi Archive, Item #30810, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/30810 (accessed June 13, 2025).