Yeah a lot of the opioid epidemic stuff is just "the war on drugs"/DARE rhetoric repackaged for left liberals because it's against "big pharma" and "corporations". Opioid prescriptions are at an all time low, yet overdoses are at an all time high. And the majority of opioid overdoses are from street drugs like heroin, which you cant get at any pharmacy or from a prescription. There's also a lot of rectoric around gateway drugs for prescriptions again, just like there was during the war on drugs with lighter drugs. Doctors aren't being guided to prescribe less opioids now out of the kindness of the US government's heart, it's being done because selling pills isn't as profitable as it used to be, due to the US withdrawal from opium production epicenters like Afghanistan.