[daniel-cussen]

It leads me to use "addict" as a transitive verb.

As in, "Purdue Pharma knowingly addicted millions of Americans to opioids."

(As an aside, in Spanish at least "suicide" is also a transitive verb in some cases, as in "The Roman emperor suicided the senator." This was because in Rome emperors would knowingly and deliberately create circumstances (credible threats for instance) that would leave the victim with effectively no choice but to do what many others in the same situation would do).