The article discusses Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" and its relation opioid abuse death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 14,000 Americans die every year due to opioid overdose. Topics discussed include AIDS crisis during the 1980s, Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids of Pain, and the Defense Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management at the Department of Defense.