Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Nonsense Date:   10/21/2020 2:10:39 PM

They are heavily regulated and yet this epidemic of opiod addiction happened.  Most of the people taking opiods that die (around 68%) do so with illegal drugs, not from legally prescribed drugs.  Fentanyl being the most common followed by heroin.  Some other interesting factoids about the opiod crisis.  Medicaid users are prescribed opiod pain killers at twice the rate of non-Medicaid patients.  So the govt is actually a big part of the problem.  Another factoid, 80% of all opiod prescriptions are written by 20% of the doctors.