Yes because after allowing the handing out of prescribed opioid pain medication like it was candy the authority turned 180deg and instantly cutoff all those addicted. What did they think was going to happen - the addicted were just going to stop being addicted because the legal supply was stopped?

I actually hold those that changed the rules with near zero support for those addicted far more responsible for this debacle and all the deaths than Purdue.

A big reason for this is because other street drugs like cocaine and benzodiazepines are increasingly being laced with fentanyl. Plus other opiods are being laced with fentanyl as well.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/americas-...