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You are misinformed and pushing an unproductive narrative. From the Center of Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html

"Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States. From 1999 to 2017, more than 702,000 people have died from a drug overdose. In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Of those deaths, almost 68% involved a prescription or illicit opioid."

Pain management may be a problem, but the opioid epidemic is very real.