I can see doctors being deceived by the drug company marketing. I mean how are they supposed to know that the huge pharmaceutical company is outright lying to

I can see doctors being deceived by the drug company marketing. I mean how are they supposed to know that the huge pharmaceutical company is outright lying to them? But it should be obvious pretty quickly that their patients are getting addicted to these supposedly non-addictive drugs. There was a serious failure of public policy not to pull those drugs once it became clear that they were causing more harm than the drugs they were replacing. One suspects regulatory capture delayed action on this issue. Either that or there was a "well, at least it isn't Heroin" mentality, but maybe that just made the problem worse since doctors would have at least thought twice before prescribing Heroin.