Do the people conducting these studies really think that getting doctors to prescribe less opiates to existing patients and having patients resort to the black

Do the people conducting these studies really think that getting doctors to prescribe less opiates to existing patients and having patients resort to the black market where heroin is often cut with fentanyl, carfentanyl, or other much deadly opiates is really a good idea? Somehow reduced prescriptions are equated with positive outcomes without any proof. I guess the thinking must be that if the patient overdoses off of street opiates it's somehow not as big of a deal as if they overdose off prescribed opiates. At least these doctors won't feel so bad about patients they are directly killing by cutting them off their prescriptions. From experience, most doctors don't even care about or can even fathom the consequences of taking someone dependent on opiates (as well as other drugs that must be tapered like benzodiazepines) so them stopping prescriptions without properly tapering patients off is no big deal while the patients literally scramble to save their lives by getting the drugs from the black market. But hey, the numbers look good and sound good to a society that thinks war should be waged on addicts and that they are better off dead than in recovery. That certainly explains our ridiculous regulations as regards to methadone, an extremely effective treatment for opiate addiction, when used to treat addiction (must be taken in liquid form from a clinic each day etc. etc) vs. when taken for pain. It's almost like these laws were written by people who want addicts to die rather than recover. They are. Doctors who stop prescriptions without offering the patient a chance to recover are essentially sentencing the patient to a possible death penalty either because the patient goes to the black market or because they can't and go through withdrawl which can indeed kill both directly and through suicide. They should really try to remember the Hippocratic oath they are violating and think about the patients they are directly trying to kill in the name of prescription reduction and useless, dumb government statistics.