Maria Higginbotham’s medication bottles, including hydromorphone, an opioid she uses for breakthrough pain.

Maria Higginbotham’s medication bottles, including hydromorphone, an opioid she uses for breakthrough pain. Maria is being weaned off opioids by her physician, who told Human Rights Watch that he believed Maria needed the medication but that he feared liability for prescribing high doses.

© 2018 Will Miller for Human Rights Watch