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Opioids are to rural America exactly, if not more than what crack was to the inner cities.

Fixed that for you.

A good friend of mine just had his stepfather pass away the other day due to Oxycontin overdose. He became addicted to it after he received it for a bummed leg, then went downhill. I remember he owned a poultry farm, and I would talk to him about it (it was a subject he loved talking about) while I waited for my friend to get ready to go out; the last time I saw him, he looked very disheveled and barely recognized me. He died a few months later, and not without depleting his life savings and causing emotional pain to my friend's mother. My father ran a methadone clinic, and it was amazing to see the lengths patients would go to be proscribed more meds; I remember one crushing her methadone pill into her urine sample to qualify for more. It's very sad.