Regardless of where one lives in America, chronic disease sufferers can't get pain relief anymore. Everyone has a breaking point and the fake opioid crisis has taken away the ability to live with chronic diseases that have pain as an effect.
"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.