If they'd witnessed someone they love, living for weeks in mind shattering pain, sobbing just getting up to go to the bathroom, unable to sleep or think through

If they'd witnessed someone they love, living for weeks in mind shattering pain, sobbing just getting up to go to the bathroom, unable to sleep or think through the pain, waiting on a doc to prescribe real painkillers, but the doc is too afraid of the DEA, maybe they'd change their minds. Or maybe they'd point to some random overdose in the newspaper and tell their spouse/mother/father/child to suck it up and stop crying, it's only major nerve branches slowly dying, and who can't rub some dirt on that?