Even doctors are admitting they are over prescribing this shit. That means that people with tennis elbow are the ones we are discussing now. These are the types of people killing themselves when they are cut off. Of all the people that are being talked about in this article, maybe 5% actually need Oxi. The rest have been convinced they need it because their doctor has been giving it to them.
Once again I ask. Why is it everyone is on this drug today when 30 years ago no one was and everything was fine?
Maybe a few doctors have admitted overprescribing, but it's not normally the kind of thing a doctor would admit, even if true.
And, no, everything wasn't fine 30 years ago.
You may have been fine, but "everything" wasn't.
And, there is still the point that most opioid abuse is street drugs, not prescribed drugs.