You’re the idiot. Perdue Pharmaceuticals lied about their product, and even went to the lengths of buying medical journals and having them print puff pieces about their own medication and “pain is the fifth vital sign” to entice doctors to prescribe. There is a whole lot of systemic corruption involved that everyone here casually ignores with platitudes about personal responsibility. They had internal memos joking about the fact that their sales numbers were grossly outpacing what they should be. In fact, the Sacklers encouraged their sales reps to pressure doctors to prescribe generics if they couldn’t get them on name brand because it turns out they had stakes in a second company producing them. This is inexcusable criminal behavior.
You cannot blame the manufacturer. Doctors over prescribing yes, but who is ultimately in charge of oneself. Here in Maryland we have people overdosing on fentanyl some five times. That is not the producer, that is the user.