> The opioid crisis is a difficult topic, but the role of legal opioids in it is highly contested. No, it really isn't. US doctors were massively over-prescrib

> The opioid crisis is a difficult topic, but the role of legal opioids in it is highly contested. No, it really isn't. US doctors were massively over-prescribing very strong opioids and telling patients that these were not addictive. This meant that communities were flooded with clean, pure, strong, opioids. This supply was legal. The fact that it subsequently got diverted into the misuse supply chain doesn't alter the known facts of the opioid crisis - that there was massive over-supply of legal meds.