The opiod “epidemic” is a Dim inspired distraction.
Mexico has become the largest supplier of heroin in the world, beating out all the Asian & other producers and the Mexican drug cartels starting switching from coke to heroin.
THAT, not the pharmaceutical industry is why there is a heroin epidemic - cheap, plentiful heroin from Mexico.
Mexican pot growers turned to poppy cultivation once they knew pot was being legalized in the United States. The corrupt Mexican government, or course, loves all that money from American users flowing into their economy.