The doctors were passing them out like candy...It’s all about deep pockets.
You have bought into a very untruthful and destructive narrative. Perhaps there was a doctor or 2 that over prescribed but they got caught and dealt with. The “crisis” was/is a lot like the pandemic narrative.
The real opioid problem comes from the cartels and their fake street drugs laced with other drugs. The additive du jour is Fentanyl but there’s been others, none so deadly, that these real desperadoes flood our cities with. Not to mention the very pure Heroin flowing like Manna from Heaven to all the druggies in America from what used to be our southern border.
The same mask Nazi’s are the same people who ratcheted up the opioid epidemic on the wrong people. Now many chronic pain sufferers have been forced, in many cases to take their lives because of all the false stigma and lack of proper medication associated with doctor sanctioned pain therapy hysteria.
I want to see the cartels or the countries that allow the cartels to function pay for the genuine opioid crisis they produce every day in every city in America.
A friend of mine does narcotics work. Ended up on a task force that targeted the doctors and pill mills. He said the investigations were very labor intensive. Not in the sense of sitting there and doing surveillance and raid stash houses, it was the paper trails. Almost like forensic accounting stuff. And then there’s, HIPPA.
Two things I got from talking to him about it:
1. The doctors, for the most part, can hire very good lawyers. Something your average dope dealer cannot.
2. How do you, the cop or prosecutor, tell me, the doctor, or them, the patients, that they don’t have a bad back or aren’t living in pain.
And now, a lot of states have databases that track prescriptions, when it comes to opiods/pills, so folks can’t go see 10 different doctors in a week and get prescriptions from each.
Ergo, where does that force the dealers/addicts and addicts to go? To the Mexicans and their insanely cheap heroin. And with it flowing over the border like water right now, I’m betting the plaintiffs in the case couldn’t sue the current administration for damages. Probably wouldn’t have STANDING.