Comment by asdff

Potential for addiction yes but we are looking at it from the lens of a post Purdue media bias. People abuse plenty of drugs that aren't opioids and we aren't say seeing a big push against Xanax for example because that wasn't in any crosshairs of media spectacle. People die on Xanax but it doesn't seem to matter because people write them off as combining with alcohol or that they were addicts. And indeed most drugs of this sort are not particularly harmful if they are used within recommendations. At a certain point a doctor can't control what you chose to do at home with your prescription and that doesn't mean you shouldn't have people who would use it responsibly not receive it even if it means some will abuse it.