>Opioid addiction is a symptom, not the disease. That's an assumption on your part. An alternate explanation is opioids have been overprescribed for decades n

>Opioid addiction is a symptom, not the disease. That's an assumption on your part. An alternate explanation is opioids have been overprescribed for decades now, and that people who've gotten hooked and then cut off by their doctors turned to illegal sources, and that as a result opioids are "around" in a way they haven't been since the 1960s and available for the more adventurous people to try.