Yes, very much so. It's resulted in a multi-fold increase in opioid addiction and consequently opioid deaths in the US over the last about 15 years or so. The g

Yes, very much so. It's resulted in a multi-fold increase in opioid addiction and consequently opioid deaths in the US over the last about 15 years or so. The general trajectory is: person gets prescribed opioids for pain, person's life falls apart due to addiction or they hit some hiccup that causes them to lose their health insurance, then they traverse a downward spiral as they become unable to hold a job and switch to heroin (same fix, easier to get), and because heroin doesn't have consistent dosing the chance of OD'ing is much higher. Remember 9/11? Imagine that many people dying from a preventable tragedy every 4 weeks in the US. Because that's what happened in 2016 with opioid addiction.