The opoid epidemic is not like others. The drug companies have a long history of false claims that their dugs aren’t addictive. Metadone, heroin, morphine, SSRIs, bipolar and ADD meds... the list of this criminal fraud is quite extensive. For some reason these corporate drug pushers have been allowed to get away with this. However the opoids are a new class. They are addictive like nothing else. Most of these addicts are created by doctors. The drug salesmen lied outright both about the uses of the drug and their addictive properties to the doctors. It is past time that these scum who push highly addictive substances and then lie about them were treated as the mass murderers they are.
Drugs are a scourge that is destroying our civilization. The companies know what they are doing. They don’t care.
But there will be smug smiles on the faces of those who, through their do-goodines, make things worse.