Big money making for pharma and wiping out the white working class.
Some lib even said we needed more whites dying from drug addiction to change the demographics in this country. Said it in a public speech, too.
A few decades ago there was a novel with a plotline like that. Iirc it was set during the Cold War, when the Soviets were working through Cuba and Nicaragua to flood the U.S. with drugs and bring America down by a pandemic of addiction.
So the book was more truth than fiction. The title was 'Monimbo.' It was written by the late conservative writer, Arnaud de Borchgrave.