Dear Doctor: 'It made both of my parents crazy' — one family's experience with a widely prescribed painkiller

Dear Doctor Roach: You have commented on gabapentin before. This seems to be a miracle drug that they’re giving out to everyone for everything. However, I’m absolutely convinced that this drug made both of my parents crazy. Both were given gabapentin in the hospital, and I absolutely felt that it altered their mental state. For the record, both were in their 80s and were hospitalized after falls. -- K.W.