> that makes them "complicit"? By 2019 standards the news, the politicians, the doctors, are all "complicit in the opioid crisis" because they didn't predict t

> that makes them "complicit"? By 2019 standards the news, the politicians, the doctors, are all "complicit in the opioid crisis" because they didn't predict the present state of affairs back in 1999 (or thereabouts) and work against it. If everybody is complicit then nobody is. It makes for eyeball grabbing titles though.