It's called being a scapegoat. Rather than treating drug abuse as a public health problem, the prevailing narrative is to just demonize the sources - liberty, a

It's called being a scapegoat. Rather than treating drug abuse as a public health problem, the prevailing narrative is to just demonize the sources - liberty, and in this case healthcare, be damned. Here it will result in another chilling effect "nobody's fault" corporate-authoritarian regime like banking surveillance in the name of money laundering. A "private decision" has been made that you don't deserve the healthcare you claim you need, and that decision has been shared between all "private" actors so you have no actual alternative. A functioning government would actually prosecute this type of collusion under straightforward anti-trust grounds, but here it is encouraging it. Power coalesces, and such a regime is basically inevitable at this point with the foundations that have already been laid. Meaning the only ways to fix it are either to route around the whole dumpster fire (eg Silk Road) or absorb it into the government fully so there's no playing coy with the constructive reality and it can actually be litigated for the human rights violation it is.