Ohio man’s morphine needs caught in pain-pill crackdown

MIDDLETOWN — For more than 20 years, Kevin Morgan has been a prisoner of his pain. Just to get out of bed and hobble with a cane, Morgan requires as much as 70 times the amount of painkiller a doctor would normally prescribe. The normal average is the equivalent of 80 to 120 milligrams of morphine each day. Morgan takes almost 5,700.