[grumpygresh]

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?

[redgolum]

Yes.

However there are plenty others that argue the opposite.

Enough that Perdue pharma got shut down.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-summaries-by-state#:~:text=State%20Opioid-Involved%20Overdose%20Death%20Rates%20and%20Opioid%20Prescribing,%20%2053.5%20%2048%20more%20rows%20

Now, I suspect you or someone you know are using them to treat pain. BE VERY CAREFUL.

The more they are used, the higher the dose needed to be effective. At some point it is enough to kil.