In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid pain relievers and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates.
Devastating consequences of the opioid epidemic include increases in opioid misuse and related overdoses, as well as the rising incidence of newborns experiencing withdrawal syndrome due to opioid use and misuse during pregnancy.
https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/
More people die per day from the epidemic our guberment allowed Big Pharma to create with blatant lies and deception, than are killed by guns per day.
But hey, keep focusing on gun control and who the Prez slept with when he wasn't Prez. That is what is more important. Makes for better headlines and keeps the viewership ratings up. Gotta feed the monkey.
