It's different in Russia than in America, but this makes me think about the McKinsey news item that came up the other day, and how they essentially guided Purdue to juice opioid sales. Of course, once prices go up and addicts cannot afford their prescription that was likely not issued in the best faith, it is no wonder that they turn to cheaper, but frequently impure and lethal fentanyl. I agree with you that people who work with addicts are truly doing God's work; no matter how secularly I want to phrase it, when I see large scale addiction it is very difficult not to see the abstract idea of the devil. People physiologically enslaved to a chemical, slowly dying, facing an uphill battle against tolerance and death -- it's all so very bleak, even more so because it is in the present moment and was fully supported by the public health care system. One wonders where the oversight was; and who is responsible? Maybe we all are responsible.