Respectfully,
I know quite a few people who started with prescription pain killer (opioids) and got addicted.
A few who ended up killing themselves by going into the “coffin corner”.
Where I used to work, it was so common we had the opioid antidote in our first aid kits. Of the three that I witnessed being used, two started with prescriptions and ended up addicted. One was a newer hire.
The statistics do not back your personal experience that prescription opioids are an important driver of addiction and OD deaths.
If you’re going to make an argument on this issue, you really need to do some research. Your personal experience really cannot be verified or quantified as a professional study and you come off making an emotional argument so typical of leftist.
Did you actually look at those articles that I posted?