The opioid crisis in the US is out of control- 42,249 died from an opiate overdose while the daily count is 116. 11.5 million people misuse prescription drugs which all accumulated to a cost of 504 billion dollars.
The opioid crisis is as real as it gets, but it’s not the same things as opioid addiction! The opioid crisis arises as a symptom that is not really caused but opioid addiction- it is the result of poor drug control policies and the decades-long war on drugs which have been ineffective to the least. It targets the independent physicians which are utterly wrong.