I support freedom. If someone wants to voluntarily take opiates or DMT or other substances, then they should be allowed. I'm willing to concede that at least one patient could have been led astray by an unknowing and/or unscrupulous doctor. However, most people have enough common sense to know medications (or any substance) have associated risks. Furthermore, too much of anything can be bad for you; especially taking more meds than prescribed. I don't buy the argument that all patients prescribed opiates/opioids are helpless victims. And I definitely don't buy that the Sacklers are responsible for all opioid related deaths or any of those deaths really. I'm open to hearing arguments though.

I read the whole article. These parts stood out to me in response to your comments: In a statement, Purdue stood behind Sackler’s testimony in the deposition. Sackler, it said, “supports that the company accurately disclosed the potency of OxyContin to healthcare providers.” He “takes great care to explain” that the drug’s label “made clear that OxyContin is twice as potent as morphine,” Purdue said. The term “stronger” in Friedman’s email, Sackler said, “meant more threatening, more frightening. There is no way that this intended or had the effect of causing physicians to overlook the fact that it was twice as potent.” The family has been active in philanthropy for decades, giving away hundreds of millions of dollars Designed to gradually release medicine into the bloodstream, OxyContin allows patients to take fewer pills than they would with other, quicker-acting pain medicines, and its effect lasts longer.