AdvertisementOpioids Can Derail The Lives Of Older People, TooDecember 20, 2016Jenny GoldfacebookEmailJohn Evard, 70, at the Las Vegas Recovery Center last July. Evard, a retired tax attorney, checked into a rehabilitation program to help him quit the prescribed opioids that had left him depressed, groggy and dependent on the drugs. (Heidi de Marco/Kaiser Health News)