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LETTER: Common sense and the use of pain medication

In response to Richard Palyo’s recent letter on pain management:

My husband, who is now deceased, had sleeping pills for years. Then he developed chronic pain for a cracked bone in his back. Oh, no! You “can’t have both” pain killers and sleeping pills.

I would like to know: When did common sense leave our own country?

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