The car accident one is really noticeable - it shows up over and over again in stories I’ve read about the crisis where someone started on opioids after getting

The car accident one is really noticeable - it shows up over and over again in stories I’ve read about the crisis where someone started on opioids after getting insufficient treatment for some kind of crash and needing to go back to work before they were pain free, possibly compounded by a doctor being afraid of the DEA investigating them if they gave too many prescriptions which weren’t unambiguously necessary. I think a lot of our discussions about car safety saw fatalities declining and conflated “doctors are keeping more people from dying” with “driving getting safer”.