They haven't been demonized for making opioids. They've been rightly criticized for deceptively marketing them to patients and doctors as safe and non-addictive

They haven't been demonized for making opioids. They've been rightly criticized for deceptively marketing them to patients and doctors as safe and non-addictive[1]. They've been rightly criticized for allegedly bribing doctors to overprescribe opioids to patients who don't need them[2]. They've been rightly criticized for failing to properly monitor and control the supply of opioids.[3] Some pharmaceutical manufacturers have made billions of dollars from oxycodone, hydrocodone and other synthetic opioid drugs. They used bad science, deception and outright criminality to flood the United States with powerful narcotics, sparking an epidemic of addiction. Nobody forced them to do it. Nobody asked them to do it. They should bear the consequences of their actions. [1]https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html [2]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/insys-therapeutics-founder-charged-in-opioid-fraud-case https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/insys-the... [3]https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mckesson-agrees-pay-record-150-million-settlement-failure-report-suspicious-orders https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mckesson-agrees-pay-record-15...