[s_dev]

Not after the opioid crisis in the US. That was the job of the FDA to prevent that exact scenario. They approved Purdue Pharma opioids for non-chronic usage when European/Canadian regulators did not. Hence why the crisis was largely contained to the United States.

[nickff]

Canada has had many opioid-related overdoses and deaths: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/op...

The numbers seems roughly proportional to US opioid deaths (though I haven’t taken a detailed look, and there may be differences in the way deaths are categorized): https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd...