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Since the article talk exclusively about opioid use disorders, this not about using opiates for aches. It is a common replicated experiment that patient that use opiates exclusively for aches don't develop habits, and more control and choice by the patient usually result in lower doses.

However I have heard constantly during the last decade that stress and depression is on the rise and also spreading to younger age groups. I thus find it very questionable to view the problem from the drug supply perspective. Is it not a more logical conclusion that more people are self medicating and the problem is the social environment (stress, depression, looniness, and so on) and possible faults in the medical system in not helping those people as effective it could?