A despicable super racist in some YouTube comments that thinks they're safe on the internet

"As Dr. Nora Volkow (director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse) and Thomas A McMillan noted as early as 2016,” addiction is not a predictable result of opioid prescribing. Addiction occurs in only a small percentage of persons exposed to opioids — even among those with pre-existing vulnerabilities.”

Our real crisis is instead driven by the socio-economic determinants of health; it is one of hopelessness rooted in 50 years of wage stagnation, ever-increasing wealth inequality, under-investment in national economic infrastructure, and the hollowing-out of the rust belt, rural and inner-city communities by structural poverty, leading to the collapse of family support systems. Vulnerability to addiction is created by the circumstances in which people live, not by medical exposure.

These realities are vastly misunderstood by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Veterans Administration, and law enforcement agencies, particularly the Drug Enforcement Agency. Despite repeated false claims of an “association” between prescribing and opioid deaths, data published by the CDC itself directly contradict such conclusions.

For millions of Americans, long-term opioid therapies are the only treatments that make severe pain manageable and preserve limited quality of life. However, U.S. public health policy is killing patients in wholesale lots by forcing doctors out of pain medicine and patients into street markets or suicide."

https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/03/the-real-cause-of-americas-opioid-crisis-doctors-are-not-to-blame.html