Opioid overdose deaths have gone up while opioid prescriptions have gone down since they peaked around 2013.
Heroin, fentanyl prices have declined significantly. But, it’s easier to bust a doctor or pharmacist than a drug dealer; it’s the paper trail of course. When raided, doctors and pharmacists don’t shoot back (at least for now).
Zactly....
They don't want to arrest the dealer silly, the Pharmacist is competition.
You are hitting on it. This "crisis" is not real. The government wants you to believe it's doctors treating patients and writing scripts when they shouldn't. That is a lie and is not happening to anywhere near the level we are being led to believe with the governments fake numbers.
Why would the government want to lie about drug overdoses and blame it on doctors? Many reasons. One being to cover for their intentional open border that is providing a pipeline for illegal drugs. Second is "control" of doctors down to the treatment level. Why do they want that? The government wants control of what treatments doctors prescribe so they can control the costs of healthcare. If government can keep doctors from effectively treating costly patients with chronic pain those people will die sooner and thus save money. Down the road when chronic pain and other conditions treated by opioids that make life livable for many the evil leftists will be there to provide the solution, assisted death.
This may sound far fetched but it's not, it's already happening.