Comment by fathyb

Isn't opioid addiction the root cause? People dying of fentanyl are mostly opioid addicts who started with prescription meds [1] such as Oxycontin.

Heroin is close to fent in lethality, and oxycodone is next in line [2].

[1] https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/prescript...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_09-508.pdf - Figure 1.