People do have legitimate chronic and/or acute pain, often severe. So there's a need for the painkillers in the market. The problem is that Purdue's marketing

People do have legitimate chronic and/or acute pain, often severe. So there's a need for the painkillers in the market. The problem is that Purdue's marketing went way beyond what was justified, leading to widespread overprescribing where that strength of painkiller wasn't necessary.