That was attributed to returning veterans from Vietnam being hooked on opiates and creating a massive market, also the baby boomer generation coming off of "fre

That was attributed to returning veterans from Vietnam being hooked on opiates and creating a massive market, also the baby boomer generation coming off of "free love" didn't help the problem. It's generally understood for both that epidemic and the current how the problem arose, in part this understanding was achieved through interviews with addicts. Going back to the original morphine epidemic in the 19th/20th century it parallels closely the current Purdue/OxyContin epidemic lending further evidence to the driver being OxyContin. Do you really think that OxyContin is not a driver and only correlated? If so, what is driving the ever-increasing opiate usage?