Long before the government stepped in cigarettes were called coffin nails. Everybody knew they were bad for you.
There is no "opioid crisis", just the governments failed 40+ year war on drugs which have done more to destroy the Bill of Rights than any commie could dream possible.
Finally in a free country people are allowed to make their own decisions including killing themselves. Now we know the Feds don't give a rip about junkies offing themselves, else booze would be banned. This is just the latest iteration of the drug "crisis" which will eventually 1) allow the Feds to extort money from big pharma and 2) strip more of our freedoms.
Spot on!
It is the weak minded that get addicted to crack, meth or opioids and whenever a segment of the population becomes addicted to one of those drugs, the apologists get their panties in a wad and want to blame Big Pharma or the government.
That fact is that the only person a junky has to blame is himself.