When celebrities take their lives that makes the news. Some page one people have included Robin Williams (age 63), Kurt Cobain (27), Junior Seau (43), Marilyn Monroe (36), Vincent Van Gogh (37), Hunter Thompson (67), Sylvia Plath (30), Virginia Woolf (59), Ernest Hemingway (61), and others we have known and admired. Their loss is public, and often hard to comprehend. But what the celebrity list does not include are the over 42,000 people who die from suicide, that we know of,

In the wake of Prince's death, opioids are once again in the headlines. While precise details remain private, The New York Times reported on the likely role of narcotic pain pills in his death. His trajectory is all too familiar: from orthopedic problems in his hip from too much wear and tear, to surgery, then prescribed opioids and likely, their regular, unregulated use. This is a deeply familiar and perilous course that does not confine itself to celebrities, as recent evid