Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker

A sign that the measures might be effective is that the number of overdoses of prescription opioids (though not of illicit heroin and fentanyl) peaked in 2010 and may be starting to come down.56

So if opioid safety measures & opioid-related incidents peaked in 2010, why the recent fury? This book was published in 2018.