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Oh, but they are: https://www.wrshlaw.com/blog/medical-malpractice/medical-malpractice-and-the-opioid-crisis/ https://www.wrshlaw.com/blog/medical-malpractice/medical-mal... The heart of the issue is that it's a legally approved drug. That's where the debate moves into questions like: To what extent can a doctor prescribe a drug before it can be perceived as medical malpractice? Since the 2010s, states and federal government in the U.S. have started to enact countermeasures against the Opioid Crisis. This includes cracking down on pharmacists and doctors who over-prescribe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States#US_federal_government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_... Reading into the above, you'll notice that the story is far more complex. It's a "wicked" problem with many in's and out's. On the surface level, fixing this seems easy, until you start digging into this and you see complex interests, countless stakeholders, political tensions, power structures, dependencies on other policy issues, etc. add to the complexity.