Recent Article diagrammatically demonstrates where opioid deaths have been coming from
https://aapsonline.org/opioid-overdose-crisis-is-from-illicit-fentanyl/
So spend less time looking at medical opioid prescriptions and more at illicit fentanyl trade. All doctors are now under tremendous pressure to cut their dose of opioids for chronic pain sufferers from organizations that feel they have to do something even when it is not the issue. Just don’t do something – stand there! (instead)