> I think the question to ask is what created the opioid problem in the first place - I tend to think it's lack of regulation in the pharma space. The opioid a

> I think the question to ask is what created the opioid problem in the first place - I tend to think it's lack of regulation in the pharma space. The opioid addiction crisis is a complex issue, and the data defies reduction to any particular cause.[0] It's become popular to blame the issue on the pharma industry, but to do so is an oversimplification large enough to call a mischaracterization, and focusing primarily on that area will not solve the problem. I think that the reason for the popularity of this misconception is that it throws a bone to almost anyone's ideological predispositions. It blames both "big business capitalism" and "the out-of-touch elite", it avoids laying blame on doctors, or on homeless urban addicts, or on poor rural addicts, or on the suburban middle class, or on a culture that fosters both urban homelessness and rural poverty, and it's a simple explanation that has intuitive appeal. [0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846593/