Unseen Scars

Unseen Scars

Some wounds heal. Others never fade.

Daniel Carter was young when his life changed forever. A workplace accident left him with inoperable shrapnel lodged in his skull, a pain that would never leave him. For years, he endured, learning to live with chronic agony as doctors prescribed him the only thing that gave him relief-opioids. With treatment, he rebuilt his life, remarried, and found stability.

But when the opioid crisis swept the country, Daniel became another casualty-not of...