Also, you can be involved in the development of such things and not really be aware of what's going on. Like, you could be the front-end developer that present

Also, you can be involved in the development of such things and not really be aware of what's going on. Like, you could be the front-end developer that presents the options returned from an API, or the back-end developer that just returns options from the DB and maintains the CRUD site for people to assign treatment X for ailment Y. The person who ended up pushing opioids as a treatment for ∀y is very likely not an engineer.