Bureaucratic state loss, bigly here.
Overwhelming. Some just don’t get it.
Not only did a traitor ex AG go down, but an evil and cruel bastard that has made millions of chronic pain patients miserable to the point of suicide in all too many cases.
His police state surge against pain managment doctors and their patients by the wanton abuse of the controlled substance act was an exercise in tyranny.
The fact is that opioid ODs are due to poly-substances and illicits. Opioid ODs from prescribed opioids when used as directed and intended are extremely rare. Addiction rates for opioids are less than 1% and much lower than alcohol which is about 5%.
see @MichaelNey19 for more info or on FB as Michael Ney if you want the studies.