While there will be some overlap there was also a lot of perverse behavior. Basically the drug company creates a drug that it wants to sell, drug reps travel to

While there will be some overlap there was also a lot of perverse behavior. Basically the drug company creates a drug that it wants to sell, drug reps travel to doctors explaining the drugs, when the doctor does the prescription, the doctor and sales rep get cash. Now you have an incentive structure where doctors are prescribing drugs to patients that may not need them, may not need the dose prescribed, and so forth. That combined with how addictive any opioid can be leads along with the trust common people put in doctors, assuming that what they are being prescribed is safe, leads to the problem. The more of the drugs that get prescribed the more everyone makes in the process. Same thing that happened with all of the shady loans during the housing crisis. All you have to look for is the financial incentive and lack of punishment and you get the same cycle repeated.